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.
Making better decisions when outcomes are uncertain
A simple statistical trick could help make a ubiquitous model of decision processes more accurate.
Samsung Officially Unveils AI Assistant Bixby
Apple gave us Siri, Microsoft gave us Cortana, Amazon gave us Alexa, Google
gave us, um, Google, and now Samsung has officially introduced its new
AI-powered assistant Bixby to the world.