In the News
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
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?
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.
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.
Airbnb: Applying Deep Learning to Airbnb Search
The 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. e gains, however, plateaued over time. is paper discusses the work done in applying neural networks in an aempt to break out of that plateau.
Google fairness in ML
A new course to teach people fairness in machine learning. It explores how human biases affect data sets.
Software tools & code
Tensorflow 2.0
Video on the upcoming changes in Tensorflow 2.0 with a side-by-side comparison with Pytorch.
How to build your own AlphaZero AI using Python and Keras
Teach a machine to learn Connect4 strategy through self-play and deep learning
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