The AI industry’s biggest week: Google’s rise, RL mania, and a party boat

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter astir AI and the tech industry, syndicated conscionable for The Verge subscribers erstwhile a week.

Reinforcement learning (RL) is the adjacent frontier, Google is surging, and the enactment country has gotten wholly retired of hand. Those were the done lines from this year's NeurIPS successful San Diego.

NeurIPS, oregon the "Conference connected Neural Information Processing Systems," started successful 1987 arsenic a purely world affair. It has since ballooned alongside the hype astir AI into a monolithic manufacture lawsuit wherever labs travel to enlistee and investors travel to find the adjacent question of AI startups.

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