Machine Learning Coffee Seminar: Harri Valpola, CEO of the Curious AI Company

Weekly seminars held jointly by the Aalto University and the University of Helsinki.

Helsinki region machine learning researchers will start our week by an exciting machine learning talk. The aim is to gather people from different fields of science with interest in machine learning. Porridge and coffee is served at 9:00 and the talk will begin at 9:15. The venue for this talk is seminar room T5, CS building.

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Future AI: Autonomous machine learning and beyond

Harri Valpola
CEO of the Curious AI Company

Abstract:

Many researchers have identified autonomous machine learning (unsupervised, semi-supervised and reinforcement learning) as an important cornerstone of advanced artificial intelligence. The Curious AI Company is developing such autonomous learning systems. We already have state-of-the-art results in several semi-supervised classification tasks but we are also working on bringing autonomy to learning segmentation and hierarchical control, both of them tasks that take a lot of human work when developing for instance self-driving cars. However, we believe there's an even more important blocker on the way to advanced AI: the fundamental inability of currently used parallel distributed neural coding to properly represent objects and their interactions. We are working on deep learning networks whose neuro-symbolic representations will hopefully allow neural networks to understand the world not only in terms of a collection of features but in terms of objects and their interactions, too. This is necessary for many tasks such as communication, reasoning and complex decision making.

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