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Beijing wants A.I. to be made in China by 2030

The country laid out a development plan to become the world leader in A.I. by 2030, aiming to surpass its rivals technologically and build a domestic industry worth almost $150 billion.

nytimes.com


Artificial Intelligence is stuck. Here's how to move it forward

"Artificial Intelligence is colossally hyped these days, but the dirty little secret is that it still has a long, long way to go."

nytimes.com


A.I. at Salesforce: an inside look

Two years ago, a band of artificial-intelligence acolytes within Salesforce escaped the towering headquarters with the goal of crazily multiplying the impact of the machine learning models—by automating the creation of those models.

wired.com


Inside Microsoft's plan to bring AI to its HoloLens Goggles

New HoloLens processor will let mixed reality goggles recognize speech and images.

bloomberg.com


Also in the news...

  • Vicarious AI raises $50M for its work on AI applied to robotics. More
  • Graphcore raises $30M for its AI chips. More
  • The UK government launches a £23M grant for autonomous vehicles. More

Learning

Amazon robot picking competition

Amazon wants to automate the human picking process at its warehouses. This is hard, robots nead to pick up and place arbitrary objects from a potential pool of millions, so Amazon has been running a competition for three years on the subject. Smart way to motivate great teams to work on this.

wired.com


Hyper Networks

This post describes an approach where a so-called "hyper-network" is used to generate the weights of another network. Thereby improving this network. Hyper-networks provide an abstraction that is similar to what is found in nature: the relationship between a genotype - the hyper-network - and a phenotype - the main network.

otoro.net


Deep Learning for NLP Best Practices

Great post by Sebastian Ruder, with best practices on many aspects of NLP: word embeddings, network construction, multi-task learning, attention and more.

ruder.io


Machine Learning Infrastructure at Stripe

Machine learning at Stripe has a foundation built on Python and the PyData stack, with a production system written in Scala. This talk covers the ML Infra team’s work to bridge the serialization and scoring gap between Python and the JVM, as well as how ML Engineers ship models to production.

youtube.com

Software tools & code

A comparison of distributed Machine Learning platforms

blogspot.fr


Lessons learned from benchmarking fast Machine Learning algorithms

microsoft.com

Some thoughts

Imagenet — 10 year recap

It's been almost 10 years since the creation of Imagenet, the set of images that jumpstarted the Deep Learning revolution. Time to look back at those few years!

qz.com


Some advice for journalists writing about artificial intelligence

blogspot.fr

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