Hotel bookings, weather queries, restaurant reservations – chatbots and virtual assistants seem to be the perfect solution for these kinds of routine inquiries. Not surprisingly, task-oriented dialog systems that support these chatbots have become a hot topic in the AI and NLP research community. In this article, we will review the recent research breakthroughs in … [Read more...] about Task-Oriented Dialog Agents: Recent Advances and Challenges
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The Latest Breakthroughs in Conversational AI Agents
2020 is the breakthrough year for conversational agents. First, Google’s chatbot Meena and Facebook’s chatbot Blender demonstrated that dialog agents can achieve close to human-level performance in certain tasks. Then, OpenAI’s GPT-3 model made lots of people wonder whether Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is already here. While we are still a long way off true AGI, … [Read more...] about The Latest Breakthroughs in Conversational AI Agents
ECCV 2020: Some Highlights
The 2020 European Conference on Computer Vision took place online, from 23 to 28 August, and consisted of 1360 papers, divided into 104 orals, 160 spotlights and the rest of 1096 papers as posters. In addition to 45 workshops and 16 tutorials. As it is the case in recent years with ML and CV conferences, the huge number of papers can be overwhelming at times. Similar to … [Read more...] about ECCV 2020: Some Highlights
The Essential Landscape of Enterprise AI Companies (2020)
By our definition, "enterprise" technology companies create tools for workplace roles and functions that a large number of businesses use. Plenty of enterprise companies use combinations of automated data science, machine learning, and modern deep learning approaches for tasks like data preparation, predictive analytics, and process automation. Many are well-established … [Read more...] about The Essential Landscape of Enterprise AI Companies (2020)
Best Research Papers From ICML 2020
This year’s virtual ICML conference hosted 10800+ attendees from 75 countries. Apparently, the virtual format makes big research conferences such as ICML more accessible to the AI community all over the world. With almost 5000 research papers submitted to ICML 2020 and an acceptance rate of 21.8%, a total of 1088 papers were presented at the conference. As usual, the … [Read more...] about Best Research Papers From ICML 2020
Programming Fairness in Algorithms
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just. ― Victor HugoWe need to defend the interests of those whom we’ve never met and never will. ― Jeffrey D. Sachs Note: This article is intended for a general audience to try and elucidate the complicated nature of unfairness in machine learning algorithms. As such, I have tried to explain concepts in an accessible way … [Read more...] about Programming Fairness in Algorithms
Guide to Interpretable Machine Learning
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. — Albert Einstein Disclaimer: This article draws and expands upon material from (1) Christoph Molnar’s excellent book on Interpretable Machine Learning which I definitely recommend to the curious reader, (2) a deep learning visualization workshop from Harvard ComputeFest 2020, as … [Read more...] about Guide to Interpretable Machine Learning
7 AI Companies Revolutionizing Recruiting
HireVue Coding Assessment AI won’t take the "human" out of HR, but applying novel machine learning capabilities can eliminate repetitive and monotonous activities in recruiting and talent management. The power of automation is based on being able to design and reimagine the daily processes that organizations rely on. However, to adopt new technologies effectively, … [Read more...] about 7 AI Companies Revolutionizing Recruiting
Highlights of ACL 2020
ACL Trends Visualization by Wanxiang Che With ACL becoming virtual this year, I unfortunately spent less time networking and catching up with colleagues, but as a silver lining I watched many more talks than I usually do. I decided to share the notes I took and discuss some overall trends. The list is not exhaustive, and is based on my research interests. I recommend also … [Read more...] about Highlights of ACL 2020
Best Research Papers From ACL 2020
ACL is the leading conference in the field of natural language processing (NLP), covering a broad spectrum of research areas in computational linguistics. Due to the COVID-19 risks, ACL 2020 took place 100% virtually, similar to other big academic conferences of this year. However, as always, it was the best place to learn about the latest NLP research trends and … [Read more...] about Best Research Papers From ACL 2020