All aboard the deep learning train: Alien Labs

Cosmin Negruseri
05 mai 2016

I've been thinking about deep learning ever since I saw Andrew Ng's talk at Google back in 2013, but somehow never made much progress other than talking to people.

I don't buy into the whole brain metaphor, and I agree that the field is a bit overhyped. Robots aren't replacing us just yet. But the deep learning technique is so effective across a large set of problems that it would be a shame not spending some time on it.

I think the infoarena community should switch it's focus from solving algorithms puzzles to machine learning and deep learning in particular but probably this discussion deserves it's own blog post.

Mircea Pasoi and Cristian Strat, after their successful stint at twitter, recently founded Alien Labs. They use deep learning to build intelligent chat bots for an office environment. This is an awesome opportunity to work together again. It's been 8 years since we last did. At Google, we worked on solving an ads inventory management problem using network flows Our claim to fame is that we got help from Cliff Stein, the S in CLRS :). This is also an opportunity for me to jump on the deep learning train tackling real world problems.

Yesterday I've started at Alien Labs based in San Francisco. The first thing I'm going to work on is figuring out if two questions are similar. This should be fun!

I'll follow up with a few posts on deep learning that may encourage you to try it if you haven't already.