DEEP LEARNING 101 WITH ORIOL VINYALS, RESEARCH SCIENTIST AT DEEPMIND

In the last week alone DeepMind have hit the headlines for teaching computers to dream and encouraging AI to play like children, all to improve the learning capabilities and intelligence of machines. The company has become renowned for it's huge successes in the AI world, for seemingly simple tasks like teaching computers to play games, which can have impressive real-world applications - such as their work with the NHS to fight blindness.

Oriol Vinyals is a Research Scientist at DeepMind, having previously worked with the Google Brain team. This year, MIT Technology Review named him a pioneer in their 35 Innovators Under 35, for his pioneering work in creating new techniques for language translation, and pushing the edge of science. 

At the 2016 Deep Learning Summit in London, Oriol presented 'Generative Models 101', exploring how they can be used to help in guiding our intuitions towards better architectures, for text, images and beyond. We caught up with him at the summit to learn more, view his interview with Nathan Benaich, of Playfair Capital, below.

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