This week’s show covers the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2016), “dueling architectures” for reinforcement learning, AI safety goals for robots, plus top AI business deals, tech announcement, projects and more.
ICML 2016
–Accepted Papers | ICML New York City
– Which companies had accepted papers at #icml2016 ?
Best Paper Awards
– [1511.06581] Dueling Network Architectures for Deep Reinforcement Learning
– [1601.06759] Pixel Recurrent Neural Networks
– [1602.07415] Ensuring Rapid Mixing and Low Bias for Asynchronous Gibbs Sampling
– My winner in the best name category: Extended and Unscented Kitchen Sinks
– Demystifying Deep Reinforcement Learning
Research
- Google Research Blog: Bringing Precision to the AI Safety Discussion
- OpenAI Blog: Concrete AI safety problems
- Artificial intelligence achieves near-human performance in diagnosing breast cancer — ScienceDaily
Business
- Twitter pays up to $150M for Magic Pony Technology, which uses neural networks to improve images | TechCrunch
- Artificial Intelligence Explodes: New Deal Activity Record For AI
- DARPA is looking to make huge strides in machine learning | PCWorld
AI Culture Wars in Silicon Valley
- How Siri Started — and Lost — the Assistant Race
- How Google is Remaking Itself as a “Machine Learning First” Company — Backchannel
- AI, Apple and Google
Technology
- Lighting the way to deep machine learning | Engineering Blog | Facebook Code
- Intel Launches ‘Knights Landing’ Phi Family for HPC, Machine Learning
- The Toronto Raptors Are Using IBM’s Watson to Draft A Winning Team | Motherboard
