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China’s AI Awakening中国 人工智能 的崛起

"The West shouldn’t fear China’s artificial-intelligence revolution. It should copy it."

technologyreview.com


Also in the news...

  • Key takeaways from Waymo's report on self driving
  • China is building a giant facial recognition database to identify any citizen within seconds. More
  • Andrew Ng's new project includes a chat bot to fight depression. More
  • Delphi buys Nutonomy for $400M to scale and deliver autonomous vehicles. More

Workplace

Tech Giants are paying huge salaries for scarce A.I. talent

Nearly all big tech companies have an artificial intelligence project, and they are willing to pay experts millions of dollars to help get it done.

nytimes.com

Learning

Speech Recognition is not solved

Despite falling word error rates, and contrary to what you may read in the media, here are the reasons why we are still far from human-level recognition.

github.io


Word embeddings in 2017: Trends and future directions

ruder.io


Hey Siri: an on-device DNN-powered voice trigger for Apple’s Personal Assistant

New Apple machine learning paper on how iPhones listen for the "Hey Siri" phrase (they use the motion co-processor instead of the CPU).

apple.com


Portrait mode on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartphones

Google using Machine Learning (and not dual lenses) to obtain shallow depth-of-field images.

googleblog.com

Software tools & code

Introducing Gluon

A new library for machine learning from AWS and Microsoft, designed to compete with Tensorflow, Pytorch and the likes.

amazon.com


AVA

Open-souree labeled Video Dataset for Human Action Understanding. Contains scenes of people doing all sorts of actions (dancing, digging, hugging, standing...)

googleblog.com

Some thoughts

The 10 Top Recommendations for the AI Field in 2017

medium.com

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