Talking Machines: Sparse Coding and MADBITS, with Clement Farabet

by Talking Machines

09 May 2016

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In episode nine of season two, we talk about sparse coding, take a listener question about the next big demonstration for AI after AlphaGo. Plus we talk with Clement Farabet about MADBITS and the work he’s doing at Twitter Cortex.

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