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In the News
Artificial Intelligence at Apple
An interesting look at how Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are used and developed at Apple: Siri, acquisitions and current projects.
If the age of self-driving cars is upon us, what's keeping them off the roads?
As Google and Uber trial prototypes, the future of fully driverless cars and safer roads should come sooner than anyone thought – but they’re in no mood to rush.
New YC startups in the field
YCombinator, a renowned startup program, had its demo day this week. Out of the current batch, a few startups have products that use AI/ML as a core technology:
- People.ai - Sales team analytics
- Crowdai - Image recognition
- Sway - Automated bookkeeping
- Legalist - Algorithmic litigation financing
- Instrumentl - Simplifying scientific grants
- ApolloShield - Safely land threatening drones
- Iris - Collision avoidance tech for drones
- RaptorMaps - Drone-based farming analytics
- Yesgraph - Social graph API
Also in the news this week...
- Airbus reveals ambitious plan for autonomous flying taxis. More
- Computers trounce pathologists in predicting lung cancer severity. More
- Polly.ai raises $1.2M to help companies poll their employees. More
Learning
RNNs in Tensorflow
Interesting resource for more advanced users. Serves as a practical guide and goes through a few "undocumented" features.
Deep deterministic policy gradients in Tensorflow
Deep deterministic policy gradients are useful when considering reinforcement learning in a non-discrete world (such as in robotics or most real-world problems). This is a great introduction to the field.
Building a real-time recommendation engine
Going through graph powered recommendations, social recommendations, similarity recommendations and cluster recommendations.
How Machine Learning will change what you eat
Smarter technology could make farms more efficient and food tastier, though environmentalists argue none of it is guilt-free.
How Alexa learns about you
How do services like Amazon's Alexa understand your voice?
Software tools & code
Text summarization
Google open-sourced code to help generate news headlines on Annotated English Gigaword, a dataset often used in summarization research.
PyCNN
Image processing with Cellular Neural Networks in python
Brains & Neurons
Startup claims to be developing a brain prosthetic to improve memory
A startup named Kernel came out of stealth mode yesterday and revealed its ambitious mission: to develop a ready-for-the-clinic brain prosthetic to help people with memory problems. Will this actually come true?
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