Welcome to the Post-AlphaGo world
In the aftermath of AlphaGo's win against Lee Sedol their have been tons of comments on what this means for our future. The timing may be a coincidence, but South Korea announced a few days later a $860M AI fund. They don't want to miss the AI bandwagon.
What now? The next frontier is said to be complex games such as Starcraft, that come with their own set of huge challenges.
Microsoft has already announced that it will transform Minecraft into a a testing ground for artificial intelligence experiments. Computer scientists and amateurs will be able to evaluate and develop AI software using its virtual landscapes from July.
Interesting times ahead!
In the News
Self-driving cars won’t work until we change our roads and attitudes
Interesting article by Andrew Ng (Stanford, Baidu) on what we need to kickstart the deployment of self-driving cars.
10 YCW16 startups in the AI field
The new batch of startups admitted to the famous Y Combinator accelerator demoed this week. Here are the startups building services related to AI:
- Nova - AI that writes sales emails
- DeepGram - A search engine for sound
- Msg.ai - AI for conversational commerce
- SendBird - Chat API for mobile apps and websites
- Cover - Get insurance by taking a photo
- Chatfuel - Chatbot platform
- Varden Labs - Self driving shuttles for private campuses
- Castle.io - Behavior-based security
- Prompt - Chatbot platform
- Skymind - Open source deep learning software
Also in the news this week...
- Google opens a Speech recognition API in limited preview. More
- The US is continuing to buy up many UK artificial intelligence companies More
- Google puts Boston Dynamics up for sale in robotics retreat. More
- Microsoft launched Tay.ai, a chatbot with zero chill
Learning
Diagnosing Heart Diseases with deep neural networks
I've seen several projects to diagnose heart diseases by analyzing cardiograms. The approach here focuses on MRI-image analysis through convolutional networks.
Whiskey Embeddings
Whether you are into whiskey or not - this is a cool project using word embeddings on a big set of whiskey reviews to help amateurs find bottles they will like
Software tools & code
Generate image analogies using neural matching and blending
Look at those impressing results!
Using Deep Q-Networks to learn to play Flappy Bird
Deep Q-Networks have been used by Deepmind to teach AIs to play Atari games. Here is an interesting example and source code focusing on Flappy bird.
Darknet
Darknet is an open source neural network framework written in C and CUDA. It supports CPU and GPU computation.
Datasets for data geeks
Site that lists publicly available datasets. The list is short for the moment but will hopefully grow over time.
Some thoughts
An AI with 30 years’ worth of knowledge finally goes to work
Having spent the past 31 years memorizing an astonishing collection of general knowledge, the artificial-intelligence engine created by Doug Lenat is finally ready to go to work.
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