In the News
Machine Intelligence in the real world
Review of the Machine Learning company landscape. Shivon Zilis here divides ML companies into 8 groups: panopticons, lasers, alchemists, gateways, magic wands, navigators, agents and pioneers.
Goodbye apps, hello smart agents
What will the post-app world look like? This piece argues that smart agents will progressively replace apps.
Also in the news this week...
- Algorithms could aid discovery at Large Hadron Collider, but raise transparency concerns
- Andrej Karpathy shares his vision for the future of the Deep Learning field
- Osaro raises $3.3M to automate the process of learning in complex environments.
- Wikimedia releases new AI service designed to improve the way editors maintain the quality of Wikipedia
Featured
Realtime Image Moderation API
Deep learning can help developers filter and moderate user submitted photos. This API automatically detects nudity in images.
Learning
Building analytics at Simple
Thorough review of Simple's work on Data: the Team, the Infrastructure and their Approach. Many interesting learnings.
Making deep learning models robust for object recognition
Data for object recognition is often not reflective of the real world. Professor Wolfram Burgard, from Autonomous Intelligent Systems at the University of Freiburg, discusses a way around this.
Drug design with convolutional neural networks
Introduction to the technology used at Atomwise to explore molecule combinations and reproduce past medical experiments.
Software tools & code
Simple end-to-end TensorFlow examples
Nice tutorial to get your hands dirty with Google's Tensorflow.
Hardware
Nvidia launches embeddable GPU
Nvidia unveiled the Jetson TX1, a credit card-sized device that packs a computational wallop for tasks such as machine learning, computer vision, and data analytics
Some thoughts
I taught a computer to write like Engadget
Inspired by Char-RNN and other previous work by Andrej Karpathy.
Your computer dresses you funny
Fashion is hard for machines. So we set up an eight-week deep-learning AI makeover to put the chic into geek.
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