My first earrings at the Rework Deep Learning Summit

My AR video.
Some random notes from the speakers that followed:

Charles Cadieu, MIT: “Deep neural networks rival the representation of primate’s IT cortex for Core Visual Object Recognition. It is surprising that it exceeds primates now.”

Yahoo Labs: “Learning creativity”
Creativity baffles everyone
What makes for attractive video content, in the creative , aesthetic, and semantic sense?

To be creative, it should evoke emotion and be unique or surprising.

We crowdsourced ground truth for Vine videos.
4k videos, 5 judgments/video. $0.08 per 3 evals with 84% agreement. [results in comment below]

Nitish Srivastava, University of Toronto: Demo
Deeper is better
Reading lips with Boltzmann machines