In the News
China and the US are bracing for an AI showdown—in the cloud
Alibaba, Amazon, and others are adding ever more capable AI services to their cloud platforms.
How Amazon rebuilt itself around Artificial Intelligence
How deep learning came to power Alexa, Amazon Web Services, and nearly every other division of the company.
Could self-driving trucks be good for truckers?
That’s what a new study from Uber’s self-driving-truck team says, and a variety of trucking experts think they might be right.
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Learning
Introducing capsule networks
How CapsNets can overcome some shortcomings of CNNs, including requiring less training data, preserving image details, and handling ambiguity.
Roundup of Machine Learning forecasts and market estimates, 2018
- Machine learning patents grew at a 34% annual rate between 2013 and 2017, the third-fastest growing category
- International Data Corporation forecasts that spending on AI and ML will grow from $12B in 2017 to $57.6B by 2021
Software tools & code
Some thoughts
Is “Murder by Machine Learning” the New “Death by PowerPoint”?
Software doesn’t always end up being the productivity panacea that it promises to be. As its victims know all too well, “death by PowerPoint,” the poor use of the presentation software, sucks the life and energy out of far too many meetings.
Humans may not always grasp why AIs act. Don’t panic
Humans are inscrutable too. Existing rules and regulations can apply to artificial intelligence
Why self-taught AI has trouble with the real world
The latest artificial intelligence systems start from zero knowledge of a game and grow to world-beating in a matter of hours. But researchers are struggling to apply these systems beyond the arcade.
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