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In the News
Artificial Intelligence software is booming. But why now?
This is the year artificial intelligence came into its own for mainstream businesses, at least as a marketing feature.
Marc Andreessen on the atomization of AI
Autonomous cars - Uber launching tests, Google losing out?
- Is Google's car project losing out to rivals? Analysis by Bloomberg
- Uber starts testing self-driving cars in Pittsburgh. More
- Udacity plans to open-source its self-driving car technology. More
- Ex-Googler Sebastian Thrun says the going rate for self-driving talent is $10M per person. More
Also in the news this week...
- Microsoft achieves new milestone in speech recognition. More
- Google bought Api.ai in what seems to be an acqui-hire. More
Learning
The Neural Network Zoo
Cheat sheet containing many of the existing neural network architectures (DCGAN, DBN, ESN...). Interestingly, though all of these architectures are presented as novel and unique, their underlying relations become visible through the charts drawn here.
Generative Visual Manipulation on the Natural Image Manifold
Software tools & code
WaveNet, a generative model for raw audio
Deepmind announced a big improvement in text-to-speech systems, essentially halving the gap with human performance, by using a deep generative model of raw audio waveforms. A Tensorflow implementation is available here.
UnrealCV
UnrealCV is a project to help computer vision researchers build virtual worlds using Unreal Engine 4 (UE4).
Torch-twrl
Reinforcement Learning for Torch by Twitter
Videogame engines as a tool for AI research
- Facebook AI research published a paper on using Starcraft for reinforcement learning. More
- UnrealCV is a new project to help computer vision researchers build virtual worlds using Unreal Engine 4 (UE4). More
Hardware
Building a Deep Learning (Dream) Machine
Do it yourself approach to building a (beautiful) deep learning machine
Nvidia debuts 2 Pascal-based Tesla chips
The 7.2 billion-transistor Tesla P4 (with 2,560 CUDA cores) and the 12-billion transistor Tesla P40 (3,840 CUDA cores) are designed to recognize speech, images, or text in response to queries from users and devices.
Some thoughts
The extraordinary link between deep neural networks and the nature of the Universe
Nobody understands why deep neural networks are so good at solving complex problems. Now physicists say the secret is buried in the laws of physics.