In the News
Artificial Intelligence has independently solved a 120 year old biological mystery
Is this the beginning of Artificial Intelligence's contribution to scientific progress?
The genes of sliced-up flatworms are capable of regenerating in order to form new organisms -- this is a long-documented phenomenon, but scientists have been mystified for years over exactly what happens to the cells to make this possible. An AI agent developed at Tufts university seems to have solved this. More details
How Airbnb uses Big Data and Machine Learning to guide hosts to the perfect price
Some insights on what's behind Airbnb's price tips.
The beginnings of advertising created by artificial intelligence
By giving computers the ability to create, learn and evolve we will free our minds to discover what is possible in advertising and beyond
Featured
This week Apple held it's WWDC conference. Among its numerous announcements, a few new products making heavy use of AI and Machine Learning:
- Proactive, a Google Now competitor built on top of its recent acquisition of the personal assistant app Cue
- Expanded Siri, including features to scan emails, correlate contacts and pull contextual information from private texts
- In-app search with deep links
It's good to see Apple "supercharging" iOS 9 with A.I.!
Learning
Free ebook - Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning
Gaussian processes provide a practical, probabilistic approach to learning in kernel machines. The book deals with the supervised-learning problem for both regression and classification, and includes detailed algorithms.
Connections to other well-known techniques are discussed (SVMs, neural networks, splines, regularization networks, relevance vector machines...)
Kaggle Competition: How to know from where to begin?
Kaggle Competitions are a great way to brush up on your Machine Learning skills. The difficulty lies in finding a competition that matches your skillset and expectations. This guide may help.
Using Deep Learning to find basketball highlights
This is a nice description of an approach used at Hudl (a company doing video analysis for sports) to automatically detect basketball highlights in videos. Interesting read.
Software tools & code
Cornell software identifies bird species from users' photos
Ever hoped software would be able to recognize 400 bird species? Your dreams have come true.
Some thoughts
Obama-RNN — Machine generated political speeches
Two weeks ago I mentioned a blog post on the effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks. This has inspired many other uses such as this agent generating its own political speeches. Fun.
YCombinator 2015 predictions (based on machine learning)
Can Machine Learning predict the success of future YCombinator startups?
Twins or not?
Last month Microsoft unveiled a website that guesses your age from a photo. This tool became hugely popular. It is now followed by this other site that tries to guess if two people are twins or not.
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