Amazon is Building its Grocery Empire
Most categories have been taken over by e-commerce yet the category of fresh groceries hasn’t been disrupted by online.
Category: Industry
Apple is in a Dilemma on iPhone’s 10-year-old Birthday
Apple is confused about what its next big thing will be.
Giving Robots a Sense of Touch
The rubber on GelSight sensor will conform to any object pressed against it, resulting in the reflective lights on the metallic paint to vary according to different materials and shapes.
Building AI Superclusters in Canada
Canada is determined to build AI superclusters in Toronto-Waterloo, Montréal, and Edmonton.
Deep Learning Paper Sparks Online Feud!
A tweet from Google DeepMind’s Nenad Tomasev, concerning a paper from the prestigious Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms has sparked a well-known natural language processing expert Yoav Goldberg to tweet back: “…I really dislike this work.”
Ready, Set, Go! Meet Yuandong Tian: AI Maverick
“Scientists need passion to do research, and that is my passion.” – Yuandong Tian, Facebook Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Epic’s Tim Sweeney: Deep Learning A.I. Will Open New Frontiers in Game Design
Tim Sweeney predicts that video game companies will ultimately utilize advanced AI techniques when the VR/AR games (or so-called “The Metaverse” games) become popular, due to advancements of cameras and displays
Customer Success with Machine Learning (Google Cloud NEXT’17)
The reason why TensorFlow is so widely used is due to its automatic derivation of functions and distributed computing capability. This increase in interest can also be found in commercial applications.
C2 Montreal – Master Class with Yoshua Bengio: Know The Basics
Professor Bengio delivered the “Fundamentals of AI” masterclass to a cross-industry audience at C2 event in Montreal, Canada.
Cool IJCNN Stuff from Alaska
From May 14 to 18, the 30th International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2017) was held in Anchorage, AK, USA. Continuing the long tradition, the conference is organized by the International Neural Network Society (INNS), in cooperation with the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE-CIS).
