Google’s rise, RL mania, and a party boat
I asked attendees for their takeaways from this year’s NeurIPS in San Diego. Also: Sam Altman's charm offense, Google AI glasses tease.
Reinforcement learning (RL) is the next frontier, Google is surging, and the party scene has gotten completely out of hand. Those were the through lines from this year’s NeurIPS in San Diego.
NeurIPS, or the “Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems,” started in 1987 as a purely academic affair. It has …
