A handful of new research projects from Google, IBM and the Allen Institute for AI highlight the ongoing quest to build computer systems capable of analyzing written language based on understanding… Read more »
Jeremy Howard, the former president and chief scientist of predictive-modeling platform Kaggle, is back with a new startup he thinks can revolutionize medical diagnostics using deep learning. There’s a lot of… Read more »
A San Diego-based startup called Nervana Systems has raised a series A round for its specialized deep learning computing system. It’s a smart move given the hype and legitimate promise of… Read more »
Google has bought Jetpac, a startup that analyzes Instagram photos to help travelers find the best places to check out while they’re in town. It’s a handy app and technology, and… Read more »
An algorithm can discern a baseline image of just about anything by averaging its features across a collection of photos. Finally, we can answer questions such as what the average internet… Read more »
The NSF has funded projects that will investigate how deep learning algorithms run on FPGAs and across systems using the high-performance RDMA interconnect. Another project, led by Andrew Ng and two… Read more »
Yahoo has been rebuilding its research focus, and now a 250-person strong Yahoo Labs is trying to build the future of content. Full of experts in everything from personalization to deep… Read more »
Join Gigaom for a free meetup on artificial intelligence and machine learning. Speakers from Google, Microsoft Research, Baidu and more will discuss the state of the art in fields such as… Read more »
It’s been quite a few days. The PewResearch Internet Center released theirĀ AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs report this week, where we were asked this question: The economic impact of… Read more »
A Spotify intern and Ph.D. student published a blog post laying out his work to improve Spotify’s recommendation algorithms using deep learning to analyze the acoustic properties of songs. He hopes… Read more »