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Data-mining 100 million Instagram photos reveals global clothing patterns

The millions of photos uploaded to social media are a massive untapped resource for studying humanity. But machine learning is beginning to tap this mother lode.

technologyreview.com


Baidu Apollo

Baidu unveils vehicle manufacturing partners, declares Apollo the 'Android of the autonomous driving industry'

venturebeat.com


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  • Google DeepMind's first deal with the NHS is under scrutiny. Could be illegal. More
  • Andrew Ng announced Deeplearning.ai, his new venture after leaving Baidu. More
  • Algorithmia raises $10.5M More
  • "AI could set off World War III" according to Alibaba founder Jack Ma More

Learning

How to build a data science pipeline

Start with y. Concentrate on formalizing the predictive problem, building the workflow, and turning it into production rather than optimizing your predictive model. Once the former is done, the latter is easy.

medium.com


A Trillion-Dollar Boost to CRM

Whitepaper by Salesforce on the Economic Impact of AI on Customer Relationship Management

salesforce.com


Guide to working in AI policy and strategy

80000hours.org

Software tools & code

Medical data for machine learning

Collection of medical-related datasets for Machine Learning applications: Imaging data, Electronic health records, national healthcare data and a few other datasets

github.com


One Model To Learn Them All

A single model trained concurrently on ImageNet, multiple translation tasks, image captioning (COCO dataset), a speech recognition corpus, and an English parsing task.

arxiv.org


Apple’s Core ML: Pros and cons

Article on the ease of adaptation and limitations of Apple’s iOS machine learning framework.

A few popular models are available for use in iOS projects: CoreML models

infoworld.com

Hardware

AI’s big leap to tiny devices opens world of possibilities

microsoft.com

Some thoughts

Machine creativity beats some Modern Art

If machines can outperform humans at playing games and driving cars, can they also produce better art? A new kind of Turing test aims to find out.

technologyreview.com


Imaginary people gazing at your cursor

Fully synthetic faces generated with AI and mixed with "Deep warp" will follow your cursor. Uncanny valley?

alteredqualia.com


The future is emotional

Human jobs in the future will be the ones that require emotional labour: currently undervalued and underpaid but invaluable

aeon.co

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