In the News
China’s Face-Scanning Craze
Facial-recognition technologies are proliferating, from airports to bathrooms.
Inside the Chinese lab that plans to rewire the world with AI
Alibaba is investing huge sums in AI research and resources—and it is building tools to challenge Google and Amazon.
Also in the news...
- A woman was killed by an Uber self-driving car in Arizona, prompting the state to revoke Uber's self-driving licence. Shootage released shows the driver apparently looking down when the accident happened. More here. Also, read this timely article for more on responsibility in face of A.I. related deaths.
- The AI chip space becomes even hotter with $56M for Sambanova startup. More
Learning
On machine learning and structure for driverless cars mobile robots
Broad survey of current research and bits of opinion on mobile robots: tracking, perception, planning, safety and more.
Why humans learn faster than AI—for now
A clever study of video games reveals how the background knowledge people take for granted gives us an edge over machine learning.
Algorithmic Impact Assessments
New York City’s council recently passed a bill to enforce "algorithmic accountability." Nobody knows how that will work yet but this post from an organization called AI Now offers a good starting point for making algorithms and their impacts more easily understandable. This effort is the first of it's kind in the U.S. and will be closely watched.
Commoditisation of AI, digital forgery and the end of trust
GANs have made exponential progress recently and can now create fake videos that look real to the human eye. What kind of tools will we need to help differentiate truth from deceipt?
Software tools & code
Baidu Apollo releases massive self-driving dataset
Named Apolloscape, this dataset was released under Baidu’s autonomous driving platform Apollo, which Baidu hopes will become “the Android of the auto industry.
Airbnb: similar listing and search personalization
Listing embeddings for similar listing recommendations and real-time personalization in search
Hardware
Some thoughts
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