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Hindustan Times* HT Image NeurIPS attracts over 16,000 attendees, highlighting AI's growing influence * Major tech firms align AI announcements with NeurIPS dates * AI research sees surge in submissions, interest in evaluation and measurement By Jeffrey Dastin, Kenrick Cai and Anna Tong VANCOUVER, - Deep in the cavernous convention center here, on math-filled posters or in spirited conversations, could be a breakthrough for artificial intelligence in the making. More than 16,000 computer scientists and fellow travelers gathered in British Columbia over the past week for what has become AI's biggest annual event: NeurIPS, or the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. At the booth of diamond sponsor Google DeepMind, chief scientist Jeff Dean thanked attendees for listening to him through "weird headphones" connected to a microphone so he could reach them despite exhibition hall noise. And Dean said at a crowded event on the sidelines that AI "models should be much more modular, and sparse, and kind of twisty and tangly than the current model architectures."
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