Artificial Intelligence News #60

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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