The once obscure gathering — held last week in Long Beach, Calif. — drew coverage from the New York Times, Bloomberg, The Economist and other major outlets, focused on its astounding growth as AI has become a hot field and on the mad dash companies are making to recruit gifted developers.
But recall what put NIPS on the map in the first place: the sharing of world-class research that advances artificial intelligence. Two of our NVIDIA AI Labs (NVAIL) partners were among those presenting groundbreaking work. Researchers at New York University have advanced how computers can classify objects within complex images, and taken a step toward what might loosely be thought of as peripheral vision for machines.
