People from across the artificial intelligence (AI) world came together in San Jose, Calif. Below you'll find links to highlights from the event. Kenneth Stanley discusses how open-ended algorithms can offer an entirely different level of automated creation. Get a free trial today and find answers on the fly, or master something new and useful. Srinivas Narayanan takes a deep look into the next change we're seeing in AI--going beyond fully supervised learning techniques.

The use of AI is growing rapidly and expanding into applications that impact people's lives. Autonomous vehicles must make instant decisions with multiple outcomes, and AI is already being used in judiciary systems to help make sentencing decisions. While researchers are driven by enthusiasm to harness the power of AI, they also have an obligation to consider the impact of intelligent applications. This is a question of trust and ethics, not just technology. While we may believe that machines don't make value judgments and are inherently unbiased, assumptions made in the design process can be based on subjective value judgments, such as choosing datasets, selecting weighting schemes, balancing precision, and recall.

At O'Reilly, we believe that true innovation depends on hearing from and engaging with people with a variety of perspectives. Read our Diversity Statement and learn about our Diversity & Inclusion scholarship program. At the conference, we provide a nursing room and all-gender restroom access; we also offer childcare expenses reimbursement. To support diversity in the tech community, we work with inclusion-focused nonprofits. We're raising funds for AI4ALL and invite you to join us.

The O'Reilly AI Conference Expo Plus pass includes a lot more than access to the Expo Hall. In addition to visiting the thriving ecosystem of cutting-edge exhibitors in AI, you'll be able to test drive new tools, compare products, attend any sponsored sessions, meet with speakers and authors, get access to 90 days of O'Reilly online learning, and much more.

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--O'Reilly, the premier source for insight-driven learning on technology and business, today announced the lineup of speakers presenting at the O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference, presented with Intel. The event will take place from September 9-12 in San Jose, Calif. at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. Through detailed case studies, technical sessions and trainings, the AI Conference will offer a unique opportunity to tap into the leading minds in AI and network with thousands of innovative researchers, data scientists, engineers, senior developers and executives across industries. Together, Conference Chairs Ben Lorica (O'Reilly), Julie Shin Choi (Intel) and Roger Chen (Computable Labs), along with Honorary Co-Chairs Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly) and Peter Norvig (Google), have created a conference program designed to help organizations successfully apply AI from both a business and technical perspective, covering emerging AI techniques and technologies. In advance of the conference, O'Reilly will release a report, "How Organizations are Sharpening their Skills to Better Understand and Use AI," that explores the data- and AI-related topics technology experts are most interested in.

This is where cutting-edge science meets new business implementation. The AI Conference is a deep dive into emerging AI techniques and technologies--focusing on practical business applications. It offers inspirational keynotes, compelling use cases, proven best practices, tear-downs of successful AI projects (or dissections of failures), high-level executive briefings, and rock-solid technical skills. The AI Conference attracts the brightest minds in AI: algorithm and perception engineers, research and machine learning scientists, data scientists and data engineers, program and product managers, innovation officers and business leaders who come together to share ideas and to explore the most essential--and intriguing--topics in applied AI. If you would like to be a part of it, take a look at our tips for a successful proposal and the topics we are most interested in, and send us your best ideas by February 26, 2019.