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In the News
Meet the people who train the Robots (to do their own jobs)
Before the machines become smart enough to replace humans, as some people fear, they need to be taught.
Baidu will release a free Operating System for self-driving cars
China’s leading search engine hopes to speed development of autonomous driving and draw carmakers to its services.
Another group of Google veterans starts a self-driving tech company
DeepMap is creating maps for autonomous vehicles, with backing from top venture capitalists.
Workplace
Unsupervised Investments
A Guide to AI Accelerators and Incubators. Relevant for people involved in AI startups.
Learning
Have we forgotten about geometry in Computer Vision?
"People often apply deep learning models naively to computer vision problems — we can do better."
Brief history of CNNs in Image Segmentation
Thorough and useful read on the evolution of image segmentation techniques: R-CNN, Fast-RCNN, Faster-RCNN and Mask R-CNN.
Updating Google maps with Deep Learning and Street View
Google on their efforts to automatically extract information (street names, numbres and business names) from Street View images.
Software tools & code
Speech recognition
End-to-end automatic speech recognition system implemented in TensorFlow.
Some thoughts
Big Data Exposes Big Falsehoods
Analysis by Semantic Visions reveals intriguing differences between Russian and Western commentary about the shooting down of an airliner in 2014.
Rethinking design tools in the age of Machine Learning
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