Top 5 AI and Deep Learning Stories 4/21

1. April 21st, 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. How Automation Will Affect Your Workforce 2. AI Podcast: Training AI to Play Mario Kart 3. AI To Become Key Competitive Factor By 2020 4. How AI Is Remaking the Home Makeover Business 5. Learn and Launch Your Deep Learning Moonshot

5. 1 HOW AUTOMATION WILL AFFECT YOUR WORKFORCE “Today, executives have to cut through a lot of hype around automation. Leaders need a clear-eyed way to think about how these technologies will specifically affect their organizations. The right question isn’t which jobs are going to be replaced, but rather, what work will be redefined, and how?” For the full article from Harvard Business Review … READ NOW “AI will significantly disrupt and potentially empower the global workforce.” -Ravin Jesuthasan, Managing Director and Global Practice Leader, Willis Towers Watson -John Boudreau, Professor and Research Director, USC’s Marshall School of Business

6. 2 AI PODCAST: TRAINING AI TO PLAY MARIO KART “Previous episodes discussed deep learning systems trained to master games like Chess, Go, and even Texas Hold’Em. But training a deep neural net on a racing game like Mario Kart 64? What can you learn from that? “A lot, it turns out,” explains Kevin Hughes.” For the full article from NVIDIA … LISTEN NOW “With approximately 20 minutes of training data, my AI was able to drive the majority of the simplest course.“ -Kevin Hughes, Software Developer, Shopify

7. 3 AI TO BECOME KEY COMPETITIVE FACTOR BY 2020 “The biggest spenders on AI right now are companies in North America and Europe. The average spend was $80 million in North America in 2015, followed by $73 million by firms in Europe. European spending picked up in 2016 but the expectation is that North Americans will continue to be the biggest AI investors.” For the full article from Information Week … READ NOW “84% of large companies around the world say they are using artificial intelligence, and 62% say AI is important to remaining competitive in the year 2020.“ -Charles Babcock, Editor, InformationWeek

8. 4 HOW AI IS REMAKING THE HOME MAKEOVER BUSINESS “The technology and Levine’s startup, DigitalBridge, use GPU-accelerated machine learning and computer vision to let people visualize how wallpaper, a coat of paint, new furniture and other home decor would look in their own rooms.“I figured I wasn’t the only person who couldn’t imagine what wallpaper would look like in a room,” Levine said.” For the full article from NVIDIA … READ NOW “If you’re trying to select wallpaper, we want to make sure it’s placed behind the furniture rather than on top of the furniture. If you have light shining in the window, we want to replicate that.” -David Levine, Founder, DigitalBridge

9. 5 LEARN AND YOUR DEEP LEARNING MOONSHOT AT GTC 2017 “A credit card that stops fraudsters in their tracks. A 3D simulation of potentially life-saving molecules. A car that can drive itself down San Francisco’s Lombard Street, the famed “crookedest” street in the world. The underlying technology enabling these headlines and countless other like them: deep learning.” For the full article from NVIDIA … READ NOW “Pioneers and rising stars in the field will share what they’ve learned, help demystify deep learning and teach you what you need to know to get started.” -Will Ramey, Director of Developer Marketing, NVIDIA

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