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Editorial
Thoughts From Your Curators
This week we round up all Amazon’s announcements at Re:invent. We also bring you a trending article from Google’s researcher Vincent Vanhoucke.
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News
Pulse of AI Last Two Weeks
- AEyes $40M
- Apex.AI $15.5M
- Workable $50M
- Botkeeper $18M
- Hoizon Robotics
- Wave Computing $93M Series E
- China Geek Plus Raises $150M
- Qualcomm invest $100m in AI
- Nuance Spins off Nuance Auto
Amazon at Re:invent Roundup
- Amazon Opens Internal Machine Learning Training
- AWS Robomaker
- Elastic Inference
- Amazon Debut Autonomous Racing League
- Inferentia
- Neural TTS
From these releases, it gives us a feeling that Amazon is not just playing its strength such as cloud computing, it is also flexing muscles on deep/machine learning.
Blog Posts
PRML download
News on the great ML Bible PRML – Now you can download it from Microsoft websites. The exercises are hard, but if you can finished just some of them, you will learn about machine learning more deeply.
So You Want to Be a Research Scientist? By Vincent Vanhoucke
We have followed the career of Vincent Vanhoucke for a while. Back in the time when deep learning is not trendy, his was already sharing interesting comments on deep learning research on his Google Plus account. As you know, he has developed a deep learning class on Udacity.
This time he wrote an article on how to be a research scientist. His number one advice: “1. Research is about ill-posed questions with multiple (or no) answers”. Well said Dr. Vinhoucke. In fact, you may say the whole PhD education is to train students to deal with ill-posed questions. All his advices are deep, we suggest you to look at it one by one.
What we appreciate the most is while Dr Vinhoucke is a researcher, he can also appreciate what developers need:
At the same time, sitting in the seat right next to you, your engineer peers are actually building things that will endure, solving well-defined problems, and exercising the same level of creativity and mastery over their subject matter.
Is there anything we can say about being engineers in deep learning? So why don’t we just talk about “Advice No.1”?
“1. Development is about creatively combine well-researched solutions to solve real-life problems”
Oh may be “No .2”
“2. Sometimes you need to do research too”
Video
Interview with Yoshua Bengio by Lex Friedman
Here is another interview by Lex, this time he had one of the “Canadian Mafia” in deep learning, Prof. Yoshua Bengio.
Super-Curator on AI
We covered the sale of “Edmond de Belamy, from La Famille de Belamy”, an AI-generated art in Issue 79. How would an art curator see the current trend of AI in art? Artnet has an interview with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, a curator and a museum director, who is going to receive the prestigious CCS Bard’s award Curatorial Excellence next year.
We called ourselves curators, but we are no artists. So let’s leave it to our readers: do you think AI-generated art is “Artificial Stupidity” too, as Christov-Bakargie said?
Other News
Other Interesting Stories
- China AI Labeling
- The Story of Lenny – so Chatbot can be wildly successful too.
- Google Duplex is finally coming
- AI In China: How Uber Rival Didi Chuxing Uses Machine Learning
- The Insider Story of Uber before their SDC killed a Pedestrian
- It used to be called The Lantern Project….. Inside Alphabet Chronicle
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