Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

Innovations of AlphaGo

One of the great promises of AI is its potential to help us unearth new knowledge in complex domains. Weve already seen exciting glimpses of this, when our algorithms found ways to dramatically improve energy use in data centres – as well as of course …

Open sourcing Sonnet – a new library for constructing neural networks

Its now nearly a year since DeepMind made the decision to switch the entire research organisation to using TensorFlow (TF). Its proven to be a good choice – many of our models learn significantly faster, and the built-in features for distributed traini…

CSAIL launches artificial intelligence initiative with industry

SystemsThatLearn@CSAIL aims to develop new “human-like systems” for data science and other fields.

Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning without Centralized Training Data – research.google

Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning without Centralized Training Data  research.google

Multi-university effort will advance materials, define the future of mobility

With support from the Toyota Research Institute, MIT faculty will focus on next-generation energy storage.

Kurzweil Claims that the Singularity Will Happen by 2045

Ray Kurzweil, Google’s Director of Engineering, is a well-known futurist
with a high-hitting track record for accurate predictions. Of his 147
predictions since the 1990s, Kurzweil claims an 86 percent accuracy rate.
Earlier this week, at the SXSW Conference in Austin, Texas, Kurzweil made
yet another prediction: the technological singularity will happen sometime
in the next 30 years.

New ARM Chip Architecture Promises Big Boost to Artificial Intelligence

ARM, which designs the chips that power virtually every smartphone in the
world, is anticipating a world where artificial intelligence will be
running on every device.