Fast Company |
Facebook’s LeCun to be chief AI scientist, ex-Watson exec will lead AI efforts—updated
Fast Company Yann LeCun, the superstar researcher who’s been at the helm of Facebook’s artificial intelligence efforts since 2013, has been named the company’s chief AI scientist, and will “be responsible for ensuring the group retains its unique culture, focused … |
Bloomberg |
Artificial Intelligence Nears the Summit of Hype in Davos – Bloomberg
Bloomberg Artificial intelligence approached the summit of hype at this year’s World Economic Forum. |
Telegraph.co.ukWorld newsTelegraph.co.ukAdvances in robotics and artificial intelligence in China are expected to create more employment opportunities than job losses, a report by the British recruitment company Michael Page says. The report was based …
Patently Apple |
Apple Reveals Machine Learning Systems Applied to Apple Music and Apple Watch Heartbeat Activity Patterns
Patently Apple Apple goes on to explain that in prior art, machine learning that is used to enhance a particular user’s experience can be trained on the client device using the particular user’s data only. Training using only on-device data preserves privacy at the … |
Finextra (blog)Alt Data on the March with Machine LearningFinextra (blog)The explosion of alternative data sources, such as satellite images, sentiment analysis, and geolocation data, is having a profound impact on the field of quantitative investing. …
ForbesThree Keys To A Successful Machine Learning ProjectForbesMachine learning, a field evolved from the study of pattern recognition and computational learning theory in artificial intelligence, has leaped ahead in the last decade. Major improvements…
Adweek |
The Grammys Are Bringing IBM Watson’s Artificial Intelligence to the Red Carpet
Adweek For the 60th anniversary of the music awards, the Recording Academy is partnering with IBM to bring its artificial intelligence to the red carpet. On Sunday night, IBM will deploy its AI platform to analyze videos and photos of nominees and attendees … |
The Verge |
Twitter is using machine learning to crop photos to the most …
The Verge The lure of machine learning isn’t always about big new features; often, what it does best are small tweaks that subtly improve user experience. So it is with Twitter’s use of neural networks to automatically crop picture previews to their most … Twitter Created a Photo Tool That Knows Where You’ll Look First Speedy Neural Networks for Smart Auto-Cropping of Images – Twitter Blog |
New York Times |
Artificial Intelligence’s ‘Black Box’ Is Nothing to Fear
New York Times Alongside the excitement and hype about our growing reliance on artificial intelligence, there’s fear about the way the technology works. A recent MIT Technology Review article titled “The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI” warned: “No one really knows … |
BBC News |
UK PM seeks ‘safe and ethical’ artificial intelligence
BBC News The prime minister is to say she wants the UK to lead the world in deciding how artificial intelligence can be deployed in a safe and ethical manner. Theresa May will say at the World Economic Forum in Davos that a new advisory body, previously … Theresa May’s Push for AI Research at Davos Proves It’s the ‘Ultimate Tool’ PM Theresa May Seeks Safe AI Future For UK |
