In the News
Facebook's Human-Powered assistant may just supercharge AI
Facebook launched project M yesterday, a virtual assistant built on top of Messenger and partly based on humans. This is Facebook's answer to Siri, Now and Cortana.
Google is said to be working on a new algorithm - Thought Vectors
Professor Geoff Hinton, who was hired by Google two years ago to develop intelligent operating systems, said that the company is on the brink of developing algorithms with the capacity for logic, natural conversation and even flirtation.
Meet the guy who sorts all the World's numbers in his attic
Neil Sloane is considered by some to be one of the most influential mathematicians of our time. That’s not because of any particular theorem rather, it’s because of the creation of the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
Also in the news this week
- Samsung and Wipro follow Jeff Bezos in funding AI startup Vicarious
- Aliyun, the cloud computing unit of Alibaba Group, is launching an artificial intelligence service that it claims is the first in China
- Amazon takes its Machine Learning platform to Europe
Learning
Detecting diabetic retinopathy in eye images
A recent Kaggle competition focused on diabetic retinopathy grading based on high-resolution eye images. This post reconstructs the progression of one of the competitors through the challenge: approaches tested, things that worked and things that didn't.
A beginner’s guide to Restricted Boltzmann Machines
Invented by Geoff Hinton, Restricted Boltzmann machines are useful for dimensionality reduction, classification, regression, collaborative filtering, feature learning and topic modeling.
Software tools & code
Awesome Machine Learning
This Github repo is an impressive list of resources (libraries, books, software, frameworks...) useful for anybody working with machine learning.
Airbnb Aerosolve
Airbnb has open-sourced the machine-learning package it uses to determine the pricing of rooms.
Hardware
Silicon Brain: 1000,000 ARM cores (video)
The Human Brain Project is behind this attempt to build a million core brain simulator. Professor Steve Furber of the University of Manchester & one of the pioneers behind the original ARM chip, takes us through the SpiNNaker Project.
Some thoughts
How will Artificial Intelligence advance in the next 20 years?
Singularity, health improvements, autonomous systems... Is this what we should expect from AI over the next few decades? Here is what some known scientists, entrepreneurs and academics are expecting.
Artists turn Tectonic Activity into surprisingly soothing Data Visualizations
We usually use words like “immensely powerful” and “destructive” to describe Earth’s tectonic forces. But to artist Ken Goldberg of the University of California, Berkeley, even the most violent agents on Earth have an inner beauty.
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