Microsoft Azure now provides a speech-recognition service for audio-visual content that indexes the files based on what’s actually said in them. This could automate the searchability, categorization and description of content… Read more »
North Carolina State researchers built a deep learning system that was able to predict players’ goals in an open-ended video game nearly 63 percent of time. It’s not perfect and it’s… Read more »
Nvidia is fully embracing the effectiveness of GPUs for running deep learning algorithms, releasing over the weekend a new set of libraries designed to let researchers experience the performance boost of… Read more »
The annual ImageNet computer vision competition took place in August, and once again the winning techniques blew away past winners. John Markoff at the New York Times published a piece on competition… Read more »
Baidu says its 100-billion-neuron deep learning system will be complete within six months, powering a fast transition away from text as the dominant search input. Thanks to smartphones and its new… Read more »
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 »
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 »