The Expo day of NeurIPS

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I have been bouncing around the expo today. The expo has multiple tracks.

  1. Stands by all the big players in AI; Facebook, Google, NVIDIA, etc.
  2. A ‘Talks & Panels’ track, where different companies present different research.
  3. A ‘Workshop’ track
  4. A ‘Demo’ track

General for all the tracks today is that it is driven by businesses and not just researchers. I have been at the stands and to two presentations. Here, I will discuss what I saw today.

Stands

At the stands, I didn’t find too much interesting stuff. The only thing that was really interesting to me was Quantumblack. This is a child company of McKinsey. It seems thay they are solving some really cool problems for some large industrial players. The thing that interested me more, however, was that it seems that you will be imployed in positions where you are doing exactly what you are good at. That is, they employ individual people for front-end, data science, machine learning, backend, etc. This makes it very interesting for me. Of course, the name also has a positive impact.

Talks & Panels

I went to a talk on producing medicin using GAN’s, RL and a lot of probabilistic modelling. I entered the presentation half way through, so I didn’t get so much from it.

Secondly, I saw a panel discussion on entrepreneur ship hosted by Next AI. Here, the founders of three different AI start-ups answered questions. The discussion it self was not that interesting. What I gained most value of was seeing what Next AI does. It is a really cool incubator for AI startups. However, it is located in Canada so thats quite a catch.