CEOs of start-ups and big tech companies spoke at the TIME100 Summit on Wednesday about innovating with artificial intelligence in an ethical way, just moments before a spirited debate on the future of the technology. “Regulation and innovation are two sides of the same coin,” said Rosanne Kincaid-Smith, Group Chief Operating Officer of Northern Data …
Kay Firth-Butterfield has worked on the intersection between accountability and AI for over a decade and is excited about the future. “I’m not an AI pessimist. I believe that if we get it right, it can open so many beneficial doors,” she says. But she’s still cautious. After doctors diagnosed her with breast cancer last …
For an industry that trades on newness, tech can be remarkably staid. Many of the big players are headquartered in a Northern California valley, and world-changing innovations are often produced by goliaths like Apple and Google. In just a decade, however, decision-making AI company InstaDeep has challenged that status quo. Led by co-founder and CEO …
Yann LeCun has been a believer in the power of neural networks since long before they were fashionable. In the late 1980s, along with colleagues at Bell Labs, he designed the first neural network that could recognize handwritten numbers at a high level of accuracy. It was an early example of a convolutional neural network, …