OpenAI Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI to pursue holy grail of artificial intelligenceThe Verge - James VincentMicrosoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI, a San Francisco-based research lab founded by Silicon Valley luminaries including Elon Musk and Sam Altman that’s dedicated to creating artificial general or
Technology Brain Simulation Promised a Decade Ago Hasn't SucceededThe Atlantic - Ed YongTen years ago, a neuroscientist said that within a decade he could simulate a human brain. Spoiler: It didn’t happen. On July 22, 2009, the neuroscientist Henry Markram walked onstage at the TEDGlobal
Sleep Apnea Israel-led research team develops AI-based model to detect sleep apneatimesofisrael.com - By Shoshanna Solomon An international research team led by the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology has developed an innovative, AI-based software to detect …
Machine Learning Stop Experimenting With Machine Learning And Start Actually Using ItForbes - Enrique DansIt turns out there’s a fatal flaw in most companies’ approach to machine learning, the analytical tool of the future: 87% of projects do not get past the experiment phase and so never make it into production.
Play buttonTechnology If you can identify what’s in these images, you’re smarter than AIThe Verge - James VincentComputer vision has improved massively in recent years, but it’s still capable of making serious errors. So much so that there’s a whole field of research dedicated to studying pictures that are routinely
Grammarly Grammarly goes beyond grammarTechCrunch - Frederic LardinoisGrammarly, the popular grammar and spellcheck tool, is launching a significant update to its browser extensions, web app and native desktop apps today. In its early days, Grammarly was all about the mechanics
Artificial Intelligence The power of context in our digital world and how AI can interpret itVentureBeat - Fernando Nunez Mendoza, fonYouIn times gone by, you would get to know your village shopkeeper and they would get to know you. You’d have a friendly exchange and buy the things you need for your family. Once in a while they would say
Tech Trends Artificial intelligence designs metamaterials used in the invisibility cloakphys.org Metamaterials are artificial materials engineered to have properties not found in naturally occurring materials, and they are best known as materials …
Startups Flybits nabs $35M to build consumer recommendation engines for the financial sectorTechCrunch - Ingrid LundenFinancial service companies like banks have seen some of their business cannibalised over the years with the rise of digital-based alternatives — often in the form of apps — that provide lower fees, faster
Data Visualization Guidelines for Good Visual Information Representationsinteraction-design.org Information visualization is not as easy as it might first appear, particularly when you are examining complex data sets. How do you deliver a “good” …
China 10 expert predictions for the next decade in Chinese AIweforum.org - Nina Xiang Over the past several years, we have witnessed the blossoming of China's artificial intelligence industry. Thanks to generous government policy …
WeChat How WeChat censors private conversations, automatically in real-timeMIT Technology Review - Patrick Howell O'Neill The super app instantly blocks even the images for over 1 billion users and growing. WeChat is a window into the future of the internet in many …
Alan Turing Britain’s £50 Note Will Honor Computing Pioneer Alan TuringThe New York Times - By AMIE TSANGLONDON — Alan Turing, the computing pioneer who became one of the most influential code breakers of World War II, has been chosen by the Bank of England to be the new face of its 50-pound note. The decision
Data Science How to Implement Wasserstein Loss for Generative Adversarial Networksmachinelearningmastery.com - Jason Brownlee The Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network, or Wasserstein GAN, is an extension to the generative adversarial network that both improves the …
Finance (India) It’s no bull: Soon, know every cow by its facethehindubusinessline.com - Thomas Abraham One cow does not look very different from another. This opens up opportunities for insurance fraud in rural areas, and leads to cattle menace in …
Deep Learning What Comes After Deep Learningdatasciencecentral.com - William Vorhies Summary: We’re stuck. There hasn’t been a major breakthrough in algorithms in the last year. Here’s a survey of the leading contenders for that next …
Nancy Pelosi Amid 'race card' allegations, Pelosi teaches Ocasio-Cortez a math lessonNBC News - Jonathan AllenAnalysis: The more the New York lawmaker lashes out over the limits of her own influence, the more obvious those limits become — and the more the imbalance of power tilts in the speaker's direction. WASHINGTON
Technology Facebook and CMU’s ‘superhuman’ poker AI beats human prosThe Verge - James VincentAI has definitively beaten humans at another of our favorite games. A poker bot, designed by researchers from Facebook’s AI lab and Carnegie Mellon University, has bested some of the world’s top players
Artificial Intelligence A Chinese AI startup is tracking lost dogs using their nose printsThe Verge - Natt GarunMegvii, a Chinese AI startup that supplies facial recognition software for the Chinese government’s surveillance program, is expanding its technology beyond humans to recognize different faces of pets.
Stanford University The dating algorithm that gives you just one matchVox - Zoe SchifferSiena Streiber, an English major at Stanford University, wasn’t looking for a husband. But waiting at the cafe, she felt nervous nonetheless. “I remember thinking, at least we’re meeting for coffee and
Tech Industry A New A.I. Is Running the Table Against Poker Pros. Is Business Strategy Next?Fortune - Jeremy Kahn It knows when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em. And, unlike in the old Kenny Rodgers ballad, it didn't need a grizzled cowboy gambler to teach it a …
AI Startups China's AI industry is tankingboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow In Q2 2018, Chinese investors sank $2.87b into AI startups; in Q2 2019, it was $140.7m. It's part of a massive slowdown in China's AI industry, which …
Technology Facebook’s new poker-playing AI could wreck the online poker industry—so it’s not being releasedMIT Technology Review - Will Knight Multiplayer poker is the latest game to fall to artificial intelligence—and the techniques used could be vital for trading, product pricing, and …
Software Development Python is eating the world: How one developer's side project became the hottest programming language on the planetZDNet - Nick Heath Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van Rossum created Python. With the language now used by millions, Nick Heath talks to van …
Valenzuela Runway ML puts AI tools in the hands of creators everywhereThe Verge - James VincentMachine learning can be a fantastic tool for creators, but integrating AI into your workflow is a challenge for those who can’t code. A new program called Runway ML aims to make this process easier by
Play buttonTechnology The state of AI in 2019: Breakthroughs in machine learning, natural language processing, games, and knowledge graphsZDNet - George Anadiotis A tour de force on progress in AI, by some of the world's leading experts and venture capitalists. AI is one of the most rapidly growing domains …
Behavior Building the mobile carrier of the future with AIVentureBeat - Fernando Nunez Mendoza, fonYouWhile we are in the midst of one of the most exciting times in telecommunications history — driven by things like 5G, Wi-Fi 6, virtualization, and transformation of networks – it’s easy to focus on what
Programming Languages Python knocks R and Perl down the list of most popular programming languagesTechRepublic - Alison DeNisco Rayome Perl dropped to an all-time low on the most recent TIOBE Index that ranked the 20 most popular programming languages. Programming language Python …
Facebook Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photosThe Verge - James VincentEveryone knows the bit in The Matrix when Neo achieves digital messiah status and suddenly sees “reality” for what it really is: lines of trailing green code. Well, thanks to an outage currently affecting
