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In the News

How Google is remaking itself as a “Machine Learning First” company

If you want to build artificial intelligence into every product, you better retrain your army of coders. Check.

backchannel.com


Apple’s announcement on AI is a big shift for the company

... and it's bet on "differential privacy" (read more) is an interesting one too

washingtonpost.com


Facebook's race to dominate AI

Can a radically open culture help Facebook catch up to Google and Microsoft—and build the world's most powerful ad platform?

fastcompany.com


Also in the news this week...

Learning

Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels

Excellent introduction to Reinforcement Learning by Andrey Karpathy, using the example of Pong.

github.io


Awesome Deep Learning papers

List of the top Deep Learning papers written over the last 6 years.

github.com


10 Data Acquisition strategies for startups

Current machine learning strategies often rely on gigantic datasets, here is a list of data acquisition strategies often used by startups and larger companies.

medium.com


An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms

Need a refresher on Nesterov, Adagrad, Adadelta, RMSprop and all their friends?

sebastianruder.com

Software tools & code

An all-in-one Docker image for deep learning

Contains all the popular DL frameworks (TensorFlow, Theano, Torch, Caffe, etc.)

github.com

Brains & Neurons

How Did Consciousness Evolve?

A neuroscientist on how we came to be aware of ourselves.

theatlantic.com

Some thoughts

Teaching Robots to Feel: Emoji & Deep Learning 👾 💭 💕

Emojis are all the rage. So is Deep Learning. This guy decided to marry the two.

getdango.com


What should we learn from past AI forecasts?

Study of what we should learn from past AI forecasts and seasons of optimism and pessimism in the field, by Luke Muehlhauser.

openphilanthropy.org

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