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How to trick a neural network into thinking a panda is a vulture
When I go to Google Photos and search my photos for ‘skyline’, it finds me this picture of the New York skyline I took in August, without me having labelled it!
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Scott Aaronson on Google’s new quantum-computing paper
MIT professor Scott Aaronson discusses new Google experiments that suggest the D-Wave computer exploits quantum phenomena.
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Introducing OpenAI
OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive…
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Facebook to open-source AI hardware design
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Google Cloud Vision API changes the way applications understand images
Have you ever wondered how Google Photos helps you find all your favorite dog photos? With today’s release of Google Cloud Vision API , deve...
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Computer, Respond to This Email
Posted by Greg Corrado*, Senior Research Scientist Machine Intelligence for You What I love about working at Google is the opportunity to harness c...
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Self-flying drone dips, darts and dives through trees at 30 mph
A researcher from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has developed an obstacle-detection system that allows a drone to autonomously dip, dart and dive through a tree-filled field at upwards of 30 miles per hour.
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New general-purpose optimization algorithm promises order-of-magnitude speedups
MIT graduate students have developed a new “cutting-plane” algorithm, a general-purpose algorithm for solving optimization problems. They’ve also developed a new way to apply their algorithm to specific problems, yielding orders-of-magnitude efficiency gains.
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Google voice search: faster and more accurate
Posted by Haşim Sak, Andrew Senior, Kanishka Rao, Françoise Beaufays and Johan Schalkwyk – Google Speech TeamBack in 2012, we announced that Google...
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Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners
Deep Learning is a very hot topic these days especially in computer vision applications and you probably see it in the news and get curious. Now the question is, how do you get started with it? Today's guest blogger, Toshi Takeuchi, gives us a quick tutorial on artificial neural networks as a starting point for your…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Recurrent Networks and LSTMs
The Eclipse Deeplearning4j Project. Eclipse Deeplearning4j has 5 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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Inferring Algorithmic Patterns with Stack
At Meta, research permeates everything we do. We believe the most interesting research questions are derived from real world problems.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Eigenvectors, Covariance, PCA and Entropy
The Eclipse Deeplearning4j Project. Eclipse Deeplearning4j has 5 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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Building the Next New York Times Recommendation Engine
Alexander Spangher discusses recent work that’s been done to revamp our article recommendation algorithm.
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Matrix Computations on the GPU in Clojure
Clojure Fast Matrix Library - GPU and native CPU
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MIRI's Approach – Machine Intelligence Research Institute
MIRI's mission is "to ensure that the creation of smarter-than-human artificial intelligence has a positive impact." How can we ensure any such thing? It's a
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How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone
Posted by Otavio Good, Software Engineer, Google TranslateToday we announced that the Google Translate app now does real-time visual translation of...
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Autonomous Weapons: An Open Letter from AI and Robotics Researchers
2016 (>30k signatures) open letter for AI and Robotics researchers calling for ban on offensive autonomous weapons beyond meaningful human control.
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Computer program fixes old code faster than expert engineers
Computer scientists at MIT have developed a program called Helium that can automatically revamp and fine-tune old code, without needing the original source, in a matter of hours or even minutes.
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Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks
Posted by Alexander Mordvintsev, Software Engineer, Christopher Olah, Software Engineering Intern and Mike Tyka, Software EngineerUpdate - 13/07/20...
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies
A series by Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Hyperlapse makes first-person videos smooth and speedy
Professional photographer Nick Didlick always wanted to make a great ski movie, but he had long been stymied by the need for two things: Tons of pricey camera gear, and plenty of time to shoot.
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Probabilistic programming does in 50 lines of code what used to take thousands
MIT researchers demonstrate probabilistic programming that does in 50 lines of code what used to take thousands.
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Amazon Machine Learning – Make Data-Driven Decisions at Scale
Today, it is relatively straightforward and inexpensive to observe and collect vast amounts of operational data about a system, product, or process. Not surprisingly, there can be tremendous amounts of information buried within gigabytes of customer purchase data, web site navigation trails, or responses to email…
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Images that fool computer vision raise security concerns
Computers are learning to recognize objects with near-human ability. But Cornell researchers have found that computers, like humans, can be fooled by optical illusions, which raises security concerns.