AI weekly (06/2020)

My selection of news on AI/ML and Data Science

+++ Near-perfect point-goal navigation from 2.5 billion frames of experience +++ Google’s ML-fairness-gym: A Tool for Exploring Long-Term Impacts of Machine Learning Systems +++ Facebook launches PyTorch3D, a 3D deep learning library +++ White House reportedly aims to double AI research budget to $2B +++ Facebook has acquired Scape Technologies, a London-based computer vision startup +++ Avigilon’s Appearance Search Can Tell Schools Where Students Are And Where They’ve Been +++ Google, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter demand Clearview stop scraping images for facial recognition +++ Quantifying Independently Reproducible Machine Learning +++ RGISTools: Downloading, Customizing, and Processing Time-Series of Remote Sensing Data in R +++ Ignite the Spark: Running Apache Spark on Kubernetes using PySpark +++

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AI weekly (05/2020)

My selection of news on AI/ML and Data Science

+++ Google says its new chatbot Meena is the best in the world +++ Facebook is Open-sourcing Polygames, a new framework for training AI bots through self-play +++ An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings of the Wuhan Virus +++ Europe wants single data market to break U.S. tech giants’ dominance +++ Meena: Towards a Conversational Agent that Can Chat About Anything +++ Survey of Deep Reinforcement Learning for Motion Planning of Autonomous Vehicles +++ A Survey of Deep Learning Techniques for Autonomous Driving +++

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AI weekly (51/2019)

My selection of news on AI/ML and Data Science

+++ Facebook has a neural network that can do advanced math +++ Google’s AI can identify wildlife from trap-camera footage with up to 98.6% accuracy +++ Intel acquires AI chip startup Habana Labs for $2 billion +++ eBay open-sources AI platform Krylov +++ AI experts urge machine learning researchers to tackle climate change +++ Top 10 Python libraries of 2019 +++

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AI weekly (50/2019)

My selection of news on AI/ML and Data Science

+++ With Hanabi-playing bot, Facebook AI reaches a milestone in cooperative AI +++ Baidu is Training an AI to Move Like a Human +++ Google launches E2 family of virtual machines for smaller workloads +++ AI Index 2019 assesses global AI research, investment, and impact +++ Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio wants AI systems that can reason, plan, and imagine +++ Personalizing the Joke Skill of a Voice-Controlled Virtual Assistant +++ Why scientists need to be better at data visualization +++

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AI weekly (49/2019)

My selection of news on AI/ML and Data Science

+++ An Epidemic of AI Misinformation +++ AWS launches SageMaker Studio, a web-based IDE for machine learning +++ Netflix open-sources Metaflow framework +++ ‘Short window’ to stop AI taking control of society, warns ex-Google employee +++ Deep Learning For Symbolic Mathematics +++ Alibaba: Dynamic Pricing with Deep RL +++ Training multi-agent AI systems to solve complex tasks through cooperation +++ A Visual Guide to Using BERT for the First Time +++ Vaex: How to analyse 100 GB of data on your laptop with Python +++

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AI weekly (48/2019)

My selection of news on AI/ML and Data Science

+++ Introducing TF-GAN: A lightweight GAN library for TensorFlow 2.0 +++ Global AI Survey: AI proves its worth, but few scale impact +++ AR-Net: A simple Auto-Regressive Neural Network for time-series +++ China’s billion-dollar ed-tech companies are planning to export their vision overseas +++ Deep Learning with PyTorch +++ **Corpus Wide Argument Mining - a Working Solution +++ Cost-benefit analysis in R +++ How to apply machine/deep learning to audio analysis, with comet.ml +++ Collection of Jupyter notebooks for quantitative finance +++ Create a streetmap of your favorite city with ggplot2 +++ Tutorial on Graph Neural Networks for Computer Vision and Beyond (in 3 parts) +++

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