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Zhi-Hua Zhou — Fresh Methods, Clear Guidelines: Professor Zhi-Hua Zhou's AI hopes for 2020

I have three hopes for 2020: Hope that advanced machine learning techniques beyond deep neural networks can emerge. Neural networks have been studied and applied by many researchers, engineers, and practitioners for a long time.

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Zhi-Hua Zhou

I have three hopes for 2020:

  • Hope that advanced machine learning techniques beyond deep neural networks can emerge. Neural networks have been studied and applied by many researchers, engineers, and practitioners for a long time. Other machine learning techniques offer relatively unexplored spaces for technical innovation.
  • Hope that AI can come into more fields and bring more positive changes to people’s everyday lives.
  • Hope for more thinking and discussion about what AI researchers, engineers, and practitioners must do to prevent wrong developments or misuses of AI techniques.

Zhi-Hua Zhou is a professor of computer science and artificial intelligence at Nanjing University.

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