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Meet industry leaders, startups, data scientists & CTOs leading the deep learning revolution

The summit will showcase the opportunities of advancing methods in deep learning and their impact across healthcare & medicine. Confirmed speakers include: BioBeats, Philips Research, MIT and more. The Deep Learning Summit will be running alongside, meaning you can enjoy additional sessions and networking opportunities with leading innovators and professionals.

re-work.co

In the News

The Mobile Internet is over. Baidu goes all in on AI

Baidu spent $2.9M on AI over 2 years, has 1300 AI researchers

bloomberg.com


Inside Facebook's AI class

"I took the AI class Facebookers are literally sprinting to get into"

wired.com


Out of road: driverless vehicles are replacing the trucker

New self-driving technology threatens an American way of life

ft.com


More news...

  • China is making AI a national strategic priority. More
  • Intel buys Mobileye in $15.3B deal, moves its automotive unit to Israel. More
  • Elon Musk launches Neuralink, a venture to merge the human brain with AI. More
  • Apple plans 2 more chinese research hubs — for AI? More

Learning

Learning to communicate

New OpenAI research in which agents develop their own language.

openai.com


Machines could learn common sense from video

Yann LeCun says the next frontier in machine vision is software that learns just by observing the world.

technologyreview.com


How DeepMind’s memory trick helps AI learn faster

"While AI systems can match many human capabilities, they take 10 times longer to learn. Now, by copying the way the brain works, Google DeepMind has built a machine that is closing the gap."

technologyreview.com


Enabling Continual Learning in Neural Networks

"Computer programs that learn to perform tasks also typically forget them very quickly. We show that the learning rule can be modified so that a program can remember old tasks when learning a new one. This is an important step towards more intelligent programs that are able to learn progressively and adaptively."

deepmind.com


Apple’s AI Director: Here’s how to supercharge Deep Learning

Ruslan Salakhutdinov, who leads Apple’s AI efforts, says emerging techniques could make the most popular approach in the field far more powerful.

technologyreview.com

Software tools & code

Basics of Entity Resolution

Entity resolution (ER) is the task of disambiguating records that correspond to real world entities across and within datasets. The applications of entity resolution are tremendous, particularly for public sector and federal datasets related to health, transportation, finance, law enforcement, and antiterrorism.

districtdatalabs.com


Deep Learning without Backpropagation

In this blogpost, we're going to prototype (from scratch) and learn the intuitions behind DeepMind's recently proposed Decoupled Neural Interfaces Using Synthetic Gradients paper.

github.io


Encrypted Deep Learning

Using so-called homomorphic encryption to run Deep Learning models on encrypted data.

github.io


Upgrade to SyntaxNet, new models and a parsing competition

"We are releasing a major upgrade to SyntaxNet. This upgrade incorporates nearly a year’s worth of our research on multilingual language understanding, and is available to anyone interested in building systems for processing and understanding text"

googleblog.com


Deep Learning reinvents the hearing aid

Finally, wearers of hearing aids can pick out a voice in a crowded room

ieee.org

Hardware

In-depth look at Google’s TPU architecture

Google revealed some details on its TPU architecture to train and run Deep Learning models. Google says the TPU runs 15-30 times faster than conventional GPUs.

nextplatform.com

Some thoughts

A.I. Versus M.D.

What happens when diagnosis is automated?

newyorker.com

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