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China will soon track cars on public roads with AI

National plan to electronically scan autos adds to the ways Beijing can monitor its citizens, also including video cameras and facial recognition technology.

wsj.com


How Facebook wants to improve the quality of your news feed

wired.com


"Washington needs to adopt AI soon or we'll loose millions"

"While introducing AI into the government will save money through optimizing processes, it should also be deployed to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse," US politician Will Hurd said. "Additionally, the government should invest in AI to improve the security of its citizens… it is in the interest of both our national and economic security that the United States not be left behind."

fortune.com


Also in the news...

  • China’s SenseTime, the world’s highest-valued AI startup, closes $620M follow-on round. More
  • FDA approves AI tool to detect wrist fractures. More

Learning

Lessons from my first two years of AI research

Interesting tips and ideas, such as how to allocated one's time effectively, how to do find the right papers and how to recognize dead-ends.

mit.edu


Why you need to improve your training data, and how to do it

petewarden.com


Roadmap for choosing between statistical modeling and machine learning

fharrell.com

Software tools & code

50 free datasets for Machine Learning

Covering Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Sentiment Analysis and more

gengo.ai


Open Images v4

Collaborative release of 1.9M images labeled with 15.4M bounding-boxes for 600 categories. One of the largest (if not the largest) object location datasets out there.

googleblog.com


BDD100K: A Large-scale Diverse Driving Video Database by Berkeley

berkeley.edu

Some thoughts

When the Bubble Bursts

Is an AI winter coming? Will the current AI bubble burst? Interesting thoughts and stats.

hunch.net


AI Nationalism

ianhogarth.com

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