Lyft exec riffs on ground-breaking research in AI

While an exponential growth in data and increase in compute power have been key drivers of AI innovation, without research — and the tremendous effort academics and companies invest in it — these advances wouldn’t go very far.

At his Transform 2019 talk last month, Lyft’s head of product for machine learning, Gil Arditi, turned a spotlight on this research. He ripped through example after example of research that has propelled head-turning advances in AI and machine learning in the past year. Below are just a few of the examples he covered (watch his entire talk above).