The Big Picture
Fei-Fei Li’s Imagenet: The data that transformed AI research (Quartz)
A strategist’s guide to artificial intelligence (Strategy+Business)
How Baidu will win China’s AI race (Wired)
Teaching AI systems to behave themselves (NYT)
Real vs imaginary dangers of AI (Wired)
Featured: DeepLearni.ng + Insurance
Press release: Announcing our new partnership with Symbility to modernize insurance
A closer look at our collaborative approach with Symbility to reinvent insurance (Medium)
How our Frontiers platform accelerates our partnership
Machine Learning In Industry
An inside look at Ford’s bet on Argo AI (The Verge)
How ML is helping Morgan Stanley better understand client needs (HBR)
Why everyone is hating on Watson (Gizmodo)
How deep learning is changing the world of sports (Forbes)
The ML infrastructure at Stripe (Youtube, 32min)
Transitioning entirely to neural network translation (Facebook)
Machine Learning Research
Harnessing the power of ML in your browser via Deeplearn.js (Google)
Microsoft teaching gliders to fly on their own (NYT)
Amazon’s competition hopes to teach robots to grasp (Wired)
Using Starcraft II as an AI research environment (DeepMind)
Engaging research papers we’ve been digesting this month:
Direct-manipulation visualization of deep networks
Meta-SGD: Learning to learn quickly for few shot learning
Assessing retail employee risk through unsupervised learning techniques
Natural language does not emerge “naturally” in multi-agent dialog
Machine teaching: A new paradigm for building machine learning systems
Leveraging demonstrations for deep reinforcement learning on robotics problems with sparse rewards
Machine Learning Monetized
AI chip developer Cambricon nets a $100M series A (China Money Network)
Vicarious raises $50M for robot AI (VentureBeat)
Graphcore closes $30M series B for AI processing hardware (TechCrunch)
Qualcomm acquires ML startup Scyfer (SeekingAlpha)
Andrew Ng is raising $150M for AI Fund (TechCrunch)
Search-driven analytics firm ThoughtSpot secures an additional $60M (Business Insider)
Knowledge is power
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