how to party like an AI researcher - by Jasmine Sun
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a NeurIPS 2025 scene report
it’s weird to see tech reporters posting about attending NeurIPS - surely, they must have something better to do than chase gossip at an ostensibly technical conference — Peyman Milanfar, Distinguished Scientist at Google, Fellow of the IEEE In 1987, roughly 600 renegade physicists, neuroscientists, and engineers gathered in Denver, Colorado to discuss experimental computer architectures based on the human brain. At the time, “neural networks” were still a fringe research area: brittle rule-based systems still dominated the AI mainstream, while backpropagation had only just been…
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