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France's President discusses Artificial Intelligence Strategy

wired.com


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.

technologyreview.com


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

Microsoft AI interview questions

medium.com

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.

medium.com


OECD report on the impact of automation on employment and training

oecd-ilibrary.org


Meet the man who has been working on Elon Musk’s Neural Lace

nautil.us

Software tools & code

Awesome NLP

A curated list of resources, tools and tutorials dedicated to Natural Language Processing

github.com


Amazon expands services for AI training, translation, and transcription

venturebeat.com

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!"

github.io

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