This week’s show covers the White House’s AI Now workshop, tuning your AI BS meter, research on predatory robots, an AI that writes Python code, plus acquisitions, financing, technology updates and a bunch more.
The Big Picture
- Home :: AI Now
- Jason Furman’s speech
- I need an AI BS-Meter — Gab41
- Smerity.com: It’s ML, not magic: simple questions you should ask to help reduce AI hype
- You Can Now Drink Beer Brewed By Artificial Intelligence – Forbes
- On the importance of democratizing Artificial Intelligence
Business
- Google buys machine learning startup Moodstocks to help your phone’s camera identify objects | VentureBeat | Business | by Chris O’Brien
- News discovery app SmartNews nabs another $38M, now valued at $500M-$600M | TechCrunch
- General Catalyst’s Phil Libin invests in 2 more chatbot startups, Growbot and Butter.ai | VentureBeat | Bots | by Ken Yeung
- Exclusive: Why Microsoft is betting its future on AI | The Verge
Research
- Google’s DeepMind AI to use 1 million NHS eye scans to spot diseases earlier | Ars Technica
- Artificial Intelligence May Aid in Alzheimer’s Diagnosis – Neuroscience News
- Application of Machine Learning to Arterial Spin Labeling in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer Disease
- Steering a Predator Robot using a Mixed Frame/Event-Driven Convolutional Neural Network
- Super-intelligent predator robot is taught to hunt down prey in chilling experiment | Daily Mail Online
Technology
- Release of IPython 5.0
- Skype chatbots now work in group chats | VentureBeat | Bots | by Khari Johnson
- Microsoft’s Project Malmo AI platform goes open source | ZDNet
Projects
- Teaching an AI to write Python code with Python code
- Deep Learning for Chatbots, Part 2 – Implementing a Retrieval-Based Model in Tensorflow – WildML
