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The 35th conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS2021) started on Monday 6 December 2021. There are eight invited talks at the conference this year. In this post, we give a flavour of the first three, which covered a diverse range of topics. Duolingo is the world's most downloaded educational app, with around 500 million downloads to date. In his talk, co-founder and CEO Luis described the different ways in which the Duolingo team use AI.

Earlier this month Zanzi's Jayne Reddyhoff spoke at the world's first global Social Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) conference at Oxford Brookes University, and it got us thinking… How can online businesses embrace AI and use it to their advantage? It's easy to feel threatened by the impending invasion of "robots" in the workplace, hijacking our jobs, and upending "traditional" human interactions expected at work. But guess what folks… robots are already here, and it's not all that bad. Embracing robotics in the workplace doesn't necessarily mean putting R2-D2 on the payroll. Instead social robotics, by which we mean incorporating "big data" or machine learning into business-as-usual, can begin to help us with the tasks mere mortals just aren't good at, thus freeing us up to do the more creative and challenging tasks.