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Montreal has reinvented itself as the world's AI startup powerhouse

Affordable office space and a community feel have helped Canada’s second-largest city develop into a thriving AI hotspot

wired.co.uk


Your next doctor’s appointment might be with an AI

A new wave of chatbots are replacing physicians and providing frontline medical advice—but are they as good as the real thing?

technologyreview.com


AI startups, tech giants are at the center of the Chinese government's plans

cbinsights.com


Also in the news...

  • MIT Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1 Billion. More
  • Baidu challenges Google with AI that performs language translation in realtime. More
  • Tesla deploys massive new Autopilot neural net in v9, impressive new capabilities, report says. More
  • Huawei releases its AI Strategy and full-stack, all-scenario AI portfolio. More

Learning

A global ethics study aims to help AI solve the self-driving “trolley problem”

Millions of people in 233 countries weighed in on whose lives self-driving cars should prioritize, revealing how much ethics diverge across cultures.

technologyreview.com


5 ways Google Pixel 3 camera pushes the boundaries of computational photography

Google launched its Google Pixel 3 line-up earlier this month. The improvement over the previous generation seems to be in the phone's photo-taking capabilities. Most of this improvement is achieved through software and machine learning.

dpreview.com


Airbnb: Applying Deep Learning to Airbnb Search

ThŒe application to search ranking is one of the biggest machine learning success stories at Airbnb. Much of the initial gains were driven by a gradient boosted decision tree model. Œe gains, however, plateaued over time. Œis paper discusses the work done in applying neural networks in an aŠempt to break out of that plateau.

arxiv.org


Google fairness in ML

A new course to teach people fairness in machine learning. It explores how human biases affect data sets.

blog.google

Software tools & code

Tensorflow 2.0

Video on the upcoming changes in Tensorflow 2.0 with a side-by-side comparison with Pytorch.

youtube.com


An Introduction to GPU Programming in Julia

nextjournal.com


How to build your own AlphaZero AI using Python and Keras

Teach a machine to learn Connect4 strategy through self-play and deep learning

medium.com

Some thoughts

Will compression be Machine Learning’s killer app?

petewarden.com

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