O’Reilly NYC AI Conference Highlights: Explainable AI, Vector Representation, Bias, and Future

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commentsBy Jody Duncan, Tweepsmap.INTROI was lucky enough to win a free pass to theO'Reilly AI conference in NYC, at the end of June 2017,courtesy of KDnuggets. I've had a life-long passion for AI, so I was quite excited to go see the best and the brightest in the industry and hear what they have to say! Working atTweepsmap, I'm also interested in what new developments in big data and natural language processing (NLP) could do to improve our analytics.The conference was held at a downtown Hilton in NYC, but it wasn't large as conferences go, only a couple of thousand people. Would have been a great venue if it weren't for the $14.83, 16oz pints at the hotel bar! I only had one, but the free beer nuts were a nice touch. The venue was well chosen, it was not too crowded or too spread out (I've been to conferences where there was a 15min walk between different talks!) and the staff were very friendly and helpful. There was, however, a distinct lack of seating outside the lecture halls - …