The progress here is getting spooky, including the success of such networks for captioning arbitrary images and translating between natural languages. I read th

The progress here is getting spooky, including the success of such networks for captioning arbitrary images and translating between natural languages. I read that one researcher predicts live narration of video within 5 years. A cold-splash-in-the-face intro for laypeople can be found in the TEDx talk of Jeremy Howard (founder of Kaggle): The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx310zM3tLs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx310zM3tLs For cutting-edge research, it seems the "NIPS" conference each December is where many of the new results appear: http://nips.cc/ http://nips.cc/