Issue 7 June 25th 2015

Curated by Alexis

After having announced the opening of their FAIR lab in Paris and having launched various AI-based solutions recently (including app Moment), Facebook continues to make the news this week with computer-generated photos looking real and "poselets" to enhance person recognition. Great to see this level of innovation!

David

In the News

From natural photos to computer-generated ones

Facebook's AI robot can generate images that look real to humans 40% of the time

thenextweb.com

Can we design trust between Humans and Artificial Intelligence?

The successful adaptation of AI requires empathy on the part of both people and computers

fastcodesign.com

DeepMind: inside Google's super-brain

In-depth article on Deepmind and founder Demis Hassabis. From the early days to the Google days.

wired.co.uk

Working with AI

A guide to working with artificial intelligence: your staff don’t trust algorithms, but they’d never ‘hurt’ a robot baby dinosaur

brw.com.au

Also in the news this week...

DigitalGenius raises $3M to help companies strengthen their customer support teams with AI
Criteo releases the biggest ever dataset for machine learning
Amazon announces an improved Machine Learning system for its user rating and review solutions
Japanese customers have quickly snatched up the 1000 first Pepper robots on sale
Ariel Procaccia won the Computers and Thought award, for his contributions to the fields of computational social choice and computational economics

Learning

What's a poselet and why it matters to Facebook's facial recognition accuracy

Facebook artificial intelligence researchers and Berkeley's Ning Zhang have found a way to improve facial recognition algorithms by largely looking at everything but your face.

zdnet.com

Free ebook - Information Theory, Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks

Information theory and inference, often taught separately, are here united in one entertaining textbook, along with numerous practical applications.

cam.ac.uk

Suddenly, a leopard print sofa appears

Deep convolutional networks are great at telling the difference between various types of objects and animals. But how do they react to tricky photos?

github.io

Software tools & code

Brains & Neurons

Getting Smarter

Interesting thoughts by Geoffrey Hinton on the nature of consciousness, where he tells us that we are not conscious after all and that “consciousness is a pre-scientific term". Interesting read.

utoronto.ca