Narrative Science, a startup that specializes in generating readable text from multiple data sources, plans to announce on Friday that it closed a $10 million funding round. Read more »
Nuance Communications is sponsoring a contest called the Winograd Schema challenge that aims to replace the usual conversation-based attempts to pass the Turing test. According to its backers, the Winograd challenge… Read more »
Targeted machine learning applications continue to raise money and big-time users, possibly at the expense of general-purpose platforms targeting potentially much broader use cases. Read more »
A new startup called Butterfly Network, from genomic-technology pioneer Jonathan Rothberg, hopes to improve the world of medical imaging using advanced chip technologies, tablet devices and deep learning. Rothberg explains how… Read more »
Human Machine Interactions founder and CEO Brant Ward wants designers to take cues from the movie AI to make voice interactions with machines more compelling. Read more »
Researchers at both Stanford University and Google have fused state-of-the-art neural network techniques for vision and language in order to create hybrid systems that can analyze images and produce natural-language explanations… Read more »
University of Toronto researcher and part-time Google distinguished researcher Geoff Hinton is responsible for many recent advances in deep learning, and many advances in neural network research over the past few… Read more »
IBM’s Watson group has invested an undisclosed amount of money in Pathway Genomics to help the company deliver an app that gives personalized advice to users based on their genetic information, as… Read more »
New funding for deep learning startups focused on medical imaging suggests investors see more promise in the applications of deep learning than for the models themselves. Read more »
Recent comments by machine learning experts have caused a stir, but debate over the novelty or architecture of deep learning might be best left in academia . As AI techniques make… Read more »