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Colin Raffel - Doing Strange Things with Attention - AI With The Best October 14-15, 2017

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AI With The Best hosted 50 speakers and hundreds of attendees from all over the world on a single platform on October 14-15, 2017. The platform held live talks, Insights/Questions pages, and bookings for 1-on-1s with speakers. Colin is a Research Scientist (formerly a resident) at Google Brain, where he is working on unsupervised learning, machine learning security, and models for sequential data. He did his PhD at Columbia University in LabROSA, supervised by Dan Ellis. He also has a Master's from Stanford University's CCRMA and a Bachelor's from Oberlin College.


Sex, love and robots: is this the end of intimacy?

The Guardian

The sports fields are empty, the science labs closed. No babies have been born for years. Cut to a split screen of human and robots kissing passionately. "They're trapped!" says the narrator, voice like gravel. Words slam against the screen, a warning. Except Futurama's 2001 episode "I Dated a Robot", with its post-apocalyptic world of silvers and blues, wildly overestimated how long it would take before this fear became flesh. It's November 2015, and in Malaysia, where humidity is at 89% and it is almost certainly still raining, David Levy, a founder of the second annual Congress on Love and Sex with Robots, is free to talk on the phone – he is less busy than planned.