Top 5 AI and Deep Learning Stories 6/23

1. June 23nd, 2017 DEEP LEARNING TOP 5 Insights into the new computing model

2. DEEP LEARNING IS THE FASTEST-GROWING FIELD IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI).

3. IT IS DRIVING SIGNIFICANT ADVANCEMENTS ACROSS INDUSTRIES AND ENTERPRISES.

4. HERE ARE THE “TOP FIVE” STORIES HIGHLIGHTING HOW DEEP LEARNING AND AI ARE ACCELERATING INNOVATION THIS WEEK … TOP 5 1. Deep Learning Transforming Investing Into Simple Utility 2. Next Generation Algorithms To Harness Power of Today’s AI Chips 3. Facebook Training AI Bots To Negotiate With Humans 4. What Execs Should Know About Deep Learning 5. AI’s Critical Role In Self-Driving Cars To Key Senate Committee

5. 1 DEEP LEARNING TRANSFORMING INVESTING INTO SIMPLY UTILITY “While hedge funds have taken the lead in algorithmic investing – or robo-trading Chakravorty wants to bring that same machine learning investing approach to the rest of us. Qplum uses an AI robo-advisor that invests using algorithms to create customized portfolios.” LISTEN TO PODCAST “We can use deep learning to make a level playing field where investing is a utility. “Many people are not connected to investing because they don’t know whether they’re going to do it right, they don’t know whether they know enough.” -Guarav Chakravorty, Founder, qplum

6. 2 NEXT GENERATION ALGORITHMS TO HARNESS POWER OF TODAY’S AI CHIPS “At the GTC conference this year, NVIDIA launched their GPU Volta. At the center of this chip is Tensor Core, an Artificial Intelligence accelerator. However, our current AI algorithms are not fully utilizing this accelerator, and to achieve another major breakthrough in AI, we need to change our software.” READ ARTICLE “The enormous potential of AI has prompted many companies to build powerful chips to enable a wide range of AI applications.” -Gregory Diamos, Head of Systems Research, Baidu

7. 3 FACEBOOK TRAINING AI BOTS TO NEGOTIATE WITH HUMANS “Using CUDA and NVIDIA GPUs, Facebook trained their recurrent neural network by teaching it to imitate people’s actions. The models were trained end-to-end from the language and decisions that humans made, meaning that the approach can easily be adapted to other tasks.” READ BLOG “Interestingly, in the [Facebook AI Research] experiments, people did not realize they were talking to a bot and not another person — showing that the bots had learned to hold fluent conversations in English in this domain.” -Facebook AI Research (Mike Lewis, Denis Yarats, Yann N. Dauphin, Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra)

8. 4 WHAT EXECS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT DEEP LEARNING “From Uber using past trips to predict its customers’ future habits to Facebook automatically tagging a picture you upload of your family, data is everywhere these days, and smart companies are using it to inform a better experience for their customers. Could the same be true for your company?” READ ARTICLE “The movement towards conversational interfaces will accelerate.” -Stuart Frankel, CEO, Narrative Science

9. 5 AI’S CRITICAL ROLE IN SELF-DRIVING CARS TO KEY SENATE COMMITTEE “In testimony before a packed hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Rob Csongor, vice president and general manager of the company’s Automotive business, said that AI will in the years ahead enable self-driving cars that save tens of thousands of lives.” READ BLOG “We are now at the point where we can create AI systems that have levels of perception and performance far beyond humans, and importantly, do not get distracted, fatigued or impaired.” -Rob Csongor, VP and GM of Automotive, NVIDIA

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