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In the News
The Great A.I. Awakening
"How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself."
A chinese Internet giant enters the AI race
"Tencent, which provides the immensely popular mobile app WeChat along with games and entertainment content, is determined to build a formidable AI lab."
Apple is opening up a bit on the state of its AI research
"On Dec. 6, at an invitation-only lunch at an industry AI conference, the company’s new head of machine learning, Russ Salakhutdinov gave a wide-ranging talk detailing the problems the company is using AI to tackle."
How Nvidia went from video games to revolutionizing AI
"There was no market in 1993, but we saw a wave coming"
At Sundar Pichai's Google, AI is everything and everywhere
"A year into his tenure as CEO of Google, the low-key leader talks about what the company is, where it’s going, and how it gets things done."
Self-driving cars this week...
- Uber announced that it started picking up passengers with self-driving cars in San Francisco. But was later ordered to stop this self-driving service
- Google's self-driving car team has spun out of Alphabet X into Waymo and has reportedly stopped developing its own self driving car. More
- There are now 20 companies authorized to run autonomous driving tests in California: Volkswagen, Mercedes, Google, Tesla, Nissan, Bosch, Cruise, BMW, Honda, Ford, Drive.ai, Baidu, Valeo, Telenav, Nvidia. More
Learning
The major advancements in Deep Learning in 2016
Great round-up of some of the biggest advancements in Deep Learning this year. Mainly in Unsupervised Learning and Natural Language Processing.
The Game AI programmer's bookshelf
List of useful books for game AI programming: General AI, Planning, NLP, Models of mind and Emotion
5 unexpected sources of bias in artificial intelligence
Data bias, bias through interaction, emergent bias, similarity bias and conflicting goals bias.
Andrew Ng's slides at NIPS 2016
Software tools & code
How to Train a GAN?
Tips and tricks on the way to train Generative Adversarial Networks and make them stable.
HIP : Convert CUDA to Portable C++ Code
Hardware
Radeon Instinct
AMD takes on NVIDIA with its new Radeon Instinct
Some thoughts
Wired founder Kevin Kelly on letting go of AI anxiety
How machines and humans together will transform the future of work
AI winter isn’t Coming
Despite plenty of hype and frantic investment, a leading artificial intelligence expert says hardware advances will keep AI breakthroughs coming.
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