Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence

On January 7, 2016, I attended University of Toronto’s machine learning conference entitled, “Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence”.

It was a tremendously informative and exhilarating experience! Geoff Hinton, one of the world’s foremost researchers in this field, presented his ideas, as did several other top-notch authors and researchers. Jerry Kaplan, the author of “Humans Need Not Apply”, provided an energetic and impassioned view of why he believes AI-regulation is not as important as execution at this stage of ML (machine learning) technology.

Venture Capitalists from the valley made the trip up north, to discuss how they were assessing startups which use ML to build applications for diverse industries such as HR, logistics, healthcare, and medical research.

I had a chance to make a few notes thankfully. I’ve attached a 2 page summary of the conference in the form of a visual summary. The picture quality may not be so great but the content is gold. :)

Enjoy!