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Experimenting with WebAssembly and Computer Vision
This past summer, four students at a coding bootcamp in Los Angeles began experimenting with WebAssembly. The result, after six weeks of exploration, was WebSight: a real-time face detection demo ...
Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car
Electric self-driving cars will save millions of lives and significantly accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy, but only…
ClojureCUDA – CUDA programming in Clojure
Clojure library for GPU computing with CUDA
How to Escape Saddle Points Efficiently
The BAIR Blog
Transformer: A Novel Neural Network Architecture for Language Understanding
Posted by Jakob Uszkoreit, Software Engineer, Natural Language Understanding Neural networks, in particular recurrent neural networks (RNNs), are n...
Object detection: an overview in the age of Deep Learning
This guide provides an overview of practical Object Detection applications, its main challenges as a Machine Learning problem and how Deep Learning has changed the way to tackle it.
ARCore: Augmented reality at Android scale
Today, we’re releasing a preview of a new SDK called ARCore. It brings augmented reality capabilities to existing and future Android phones. Developers can start experim…
Deep Learning for Siri’s Voice
Siri is a personal assistant that communicates using speech synthesis. Starting in iOS 10 and continuing with new features in iOS 11, we…
How are PCA and SVD related?
Exploring the relationship between singular value decomposition and principal component analysis.
Making Visible Watermarks More Effective
Posted by Tali Dekel and Michael Rubinstein, Research ScientistsWhether you are a photographer, a marketing manager, or a regular Internet user, ch...
How we built the unbeatable Dota 2 bot
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Teaching an AI to play a simple game using Q-learning
In this post I will walk you through how to teach a computer to master a simple video game using the q-learning reinforcement learning algorithm. We will implement the algorithm from scratch in Ruby without the use of external gems. To enable us to illustrate the inner workings of the algorithm we will be teaching […]
Predict the future with Machine Learning
Learn Machine Learning (ML) and be ahead of the pack in the Software industry. Machine Learning is a sub-field of Artificial Intelligence (A.I), which is heavily used in modern software systems. Machine Learning algorithms can improve software (a robot) and it's ability to solve problems through gaining experience and…
Confession of a so-called AI expert
[Twitter thread, Hacker News discussion, Le Monde]
How I Used Deep Learning to Train a Chatbot to Talk Like Me
Can you see the resemblance?
DeepMind and Blizzard Open StarCraft II as an AI Research Environment
DeepMind's scientific mission is to push the boundaries of AI by developing systems that can learn to solve complex problems. To do this, we design agents and test their ability in a wide range of environments from the purpose-built DeepMind Lab to established games, such as Atari and Go.
Jeff Dean’s Lecture for YC AI [video]
Jeff Dean is a Google Senior Fellow in the Research Group, where he leads the Google Brain project. He spoke to the YC AI [https://ycombinator.wpengine.com/yc-ai/] group this summer. Here are his slides: