In the News
AI is sending people to jail—and getting it wrong
Using historical data to train risk assessment tools could mean that machines are copying the mistakes of the past.
Three charts show how China’s AI industry is propped up by three companies
More than half of the country’s major AI players have funding ties that lead back to Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent.
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Workplace
Demand and salaries for Data Scientists continue to climb
Data-science job openings are expanding faster than the number of technologists looking for them
Learning
Few-shot learning
Thoughts on progress made and challenges ahead in few-shot learning (i.e. learning from tiny datasets). Slides by Hugo Larochelle (Google Brain)
What can neural networks learn?
"Neural networks are famously difficult to interpret. It’s hard to know what they are actually learning when we train them. Let’s take a closer look and see whether we can build a good picture of what’s going on inside."
Software tools & code
Machine Learning for Kids
Web-based list of ML projects aimed at children aged 8 to 16. They cover simple computer vision, NLP, game mechanics, and are available on "scratch", a coding platform for children.
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