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In the News
Deepmind's AlphaStar beats pro Starcraft player
Starcraft has been a focus for AI due to its higher complexity vs chess or go: imperfect information, real-time, a lot more things happening... Granted, Alphastar was maybe not on a level-playing fields with humans. But this is still an impressive feat.
Virtual creators aren’t AI — but AI is coming for them
Lil Miquela, the A.I. generated Instagram superstar, may just be the beginning.
Amazon's delivery robot Scout
Amazon has revealed Scout, a six-wheeled knee-height robot designed to autonomously deliver products to Amazon customers.
Learning
We analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next
Our study of 25 years of artificial-intelligence research suggests the era of deep is coming to an end.
Practical Deep Learning for coders 2019
This is the 3rd iteration of Fast.ai's great online learning resources for Coders.
There are seven lessons, each around 2 hours long, covering Computer vision (classification, localization, key-points), NLP (language modeling, document classification) and tabular data (both categorical and continuous).
Why are Machine Learning projects so hard to manage?
"I’ve watched lots of companies attempt to deploy machine learning — some succeed wildly and some fail spectacularly. One constant is that machine learning teams have a hard time setting goals and setting expectations. Why is this?"
Software tools & code
Natural Questions — by Google
Google released a dataset containing around 300,000 questions along with human-annotated answers from Wikipedia pages. Useful for Question Answering Research.
The state of the octoverse: machine learning
Github's review of the most popular languages, frameworks and tools for Machine Learning.
Transformer-XL: Unleashing the Potential of Attention Models
Introducing Transformer-XL, a novel architecture that enables natural language understanding beyond a fixed-length context...
Hardware
This robot can probably beat you at Jenga—thanks to its understanding of the world
Industrial machines could be trained to be less clumsy if we gave them a sense of touch and a better sense of real-world physics.
Some thoughts
The AI threat to open societies — by George Soros
In an age of populist nationalism, open societies have increasingly come under strain. But the threat of atavistic ideological movements pales in comparison to that posed by powerful new technologies in the hands of authoritarians.
A.I. could worsen health disparities
In a health system riddled with inequity, we risk making dangerous biases automated and invisible.
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