In the News
How the AI cloud could produce the richest companies ever
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft all want to dominate the business of providing artificial-intelligence services through cloud computing. The winner may have the OS of the future.
Also in the news...
- China has the world's most valuable AI company as Sensetime (face recognition company) raised $600M from Alibaba at a $3B valuation. More
- In an open letter to their CEO, over 3,000 Google employees urged the company not to work on a Pentagon ‘AI surveillance engine’ used for drone warfare. More
- AI experts call for boycott over 'killer robots' project at South Korea university. More
- Chinese cities use facial recognition to send jaywalking fines. More
- Apple hires Google's AI chief. More
Workplace
Learning
Using Machine Learning to improve streaming quality at Netflix
Description of some of the technical challenges faced by Netflix for video streaming and how statistical models and machine learning techniques can help overcome these challenges.
Software tools & code
Awesome NLP
A curated list of resources, tools and tutorials dedicated to Natural Language Processing
Hardware
The Advent of Huang's Law
"Despite the imminent passing of Moore’s law, we are beginning to see a new and interesting class of phenomena. For a certain class of programs, namely deep networks, code does seem to grow faster almost by magic. It’s now possible to train a complicated convolutional network on the ImageNet dataset in 22 minutes!"
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