If you weren’t able to attend the AAAI20 conference in New York you can catch some of the invited talks and panel sessions via the livestreamed videos. Featured events include Yolande Gil’s presidential address and the Turing Award winners’ session.

The AAAI-20 outstanding paper awards were presented on Tuesday 11th February at the AAAI conference in New York. Awards and honourable mentions were given for: outstanding paper, outstanding student paper and outstanding paper in the special track on AI for social impact. You can read about the award-winning work below.

It was a busy weekend at the 34th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Although the AAAI technical sessions didn’t start in earnest until the Sunday there were numerous workshops on Saturday as well as associated conferences AIES (AI, Ethics and Society) and EAAI (Educational Advances in AI). Here is a selection of tweets from the weekend.

The 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20), held in New York, started yesterday (Friday 7 February) and runs until Wednesday 12 February. Our Managing Editor, Lucy Smith, will be attending, covering the conference and meeting researchers.

The famous short, silent film L’arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat, produced by Auguste and Louis Lumière in 1896, hit the news this week. AI developer Denis Shiryaev used a combination of Gigapixel AI and depth-aware video frame interpolation (DAIN) to “upscale” the film to 4k, 60 frames-per-second quality.

Four years ago, we (Tom Dietterich and Sabine Hauert) met at AAAI and started a discussion about how we could improve public understanding of artificial intelligence. Tom was leading AAAI at the time, and I had just published an article in Science on how researchers could engage in the public discussion about AI. From this conversation, we set out to build AIhub.org, a non-profit dedicated to connecting the AI community to the public. AIhub.org will host daily updates about the latest news, opinions, tutorials, and events in artificial intelligence. All information is produced by those working directly in the field, without filter or intermediary.

The United States Office of Science and Technology Policy has released draft guidance for regulation that it proposes agencies must adhere to when drawing up new AI regulations for the private sector. The document includes 10 “Principles for the Stewardship of AI Applications”.

The NeurIPS outstanding paper awards highlight some of the most notable papers at the conference. Find out who won the awards and read summaries of their work below.

It has been reported that Sweden is extending its investment in AI. An extra SEK 1.3 billion has been pledged that will extend the current programme by another three years, until 2029.

In late December, the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA) hosted a two-hour debate between Gary Marcus and Yoshua Bengio.