The definitive weekly newsletter on A.I. and Deep Learning, published by Waikit Lau and Arthur Chan. Our background spans MIT, CMU, Bessemer Venture Partners, Nuance, BBN, etc. Every week, we curate and analyze the most relevant and impactful developments in A.I.
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Editorial
Thoughts From Your Humble Curators
It’s also the beginning of a new semester. So we have three new sets of videos to shared with you. One from CMU Deep Learning course. The other two are from MIT: Introduction to Deep Learning, as well as Prof. Lex Fridman’s Artificial General Intelligence class.
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News
Profile of Prof. Geoffrey Hinton
We are always indebted to Prof. Hinton on his work of deep learning. He said the following words with much humanity:
“”We’re machines,” says Hinton. “We’re just produced biologically. Most people doing AI don’t have doubt that we’re machines. We’re just extremely fancy machines. And I shouldn’t say just. We’re special, wonderful machines.””
Blog Posts
The Instant Motion Tracking Behind Motion Stills AR
AI and augmented reality have many interesting connections. For example, suppose your virtual object doesn’t directly communicate with the environment, then detect and identify the object would require image detection and classification techniques. Google’s post is a great showcase of how these two fields can work together.
Ehang Autonomous Passenger-Carrying Drone
In this post, we saw Ehang’s very impressive passenger-carrying drone, 184, which can carry 280kg for around 10 miles.
Open Source
An R-interface to Tensorflow
If you are an R fan, you are probably looking for an R interface of Tensorflow. If that’s the case, this link is for you.
Video
MIT’s Introduction to Deep Learning
MIT’s Introduction to Deep Learning has been quite popular last year. The course is relaunched and you can find the details from the link.
The MIT AGI Lecture by Josh Tenenbaum
Dr. Lex Fridman shared us this link by Josh Tenenbaum on AGI and discuss how we can build computers which think like us.
CMU Deep Learning Class
This is the first time CMU deep learning class, taught by Prof. Bhiksha Raj, is opened up to the public. Just looking at the list, there are many interesting topics such as DNN as the universal approximator, is only covered in this class.
Paper/Thesis Review
The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning – arxiv version
Woo, the lovely article, written by Terrance Parr and Jeremy Howard, which covers matrix calculus for deep learning is now in arxiv. Go check it out!
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