Technology
Probabilistic Programming Languages for Uncertainty-Aware Artificial Intelligence
Quick fact
Probabilistic programming languages like Pyro and Stan are used to build AI that can diagnose diseases from symptoms, but they can also generate entire 3D scenes by reasoning about the physics of objects and light.
Why this is interesting
You just asked your phone if it will rain tomorrow, and it said '60% chance'. But how does it know that number? What if you could write a computer program that reasons with this kind of uncertainty everywhere?