Top 5 Deep Learning and AI Stories - October 12, 2018

1. October 12, 2018 DEEP LEARNING TOP 5 Insights into the new computing model

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

3. AS AI TECHNOLOGIES CONTINUE TO IMPROVE, MORE COMPANIES ADOPT DEEP LEARNING TO ACCELERATE THEIR BUSINESSES…

4. TOP 5 DEEP LEARNING STORIES 1. New open-source data science and machine learning acceleration platform. 2. Transforming healthcare in the U.K. through AI-enabled radiology and pathology. 3. Bringing real-time DNA sequencing to the palm of your hand. 4. Agrobot aims to revolutionize the agriculture industry. 5. Integrating AI into customer facing applications.

5. 1 NEW OPEN-SOURCE DATA SCIENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING ACCELERATION PLATFORM At GTC Europe 2018, NVIDIA introduced RAPIDS, an open- source data analytics and machine learning platform for executing end-to-end data science training pipelines on GPUs. For the first time, RAPIDS gives data scientists a robust platform for GPU-accelerated data science: analytics, machine learning and, soon, data visualization. “RAPIDS is all about making it easier for large businesses to use the power of GPUs to quickly analyze massive amounts of data and then use that to build machine learning models.” READ ARTICLE Source: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/10/nvidia-launches-rapids-to-help-bring-gpu-acceleration-to-data-analytics/

6. 2 TRANSFORMING HEALTHCARE IN THE U.K. THROUGH AI-ENABLED RADIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY King’s College London is Europe's first clinical partner to adopt the NVIDIA DGX-2 and NVIDIA Clara healthcare platform. The partnership will bring AI to four major London hospitals to enable groundbreaking research and elevated patient care. “This is a huge opportunity to transform patient outcomes by applying the extraordinary capabilities of AI to ultimately make diagnoses earlier and more accurately than in the past.” LEARN MORE Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/10/10/kings-college-london-nvidia-clara/

7. 3 BRINGING REAL-TIME DNA SEQUENCING TO THE PALM OF YOUR HAND Oxford Nanopore launched MinIT, a powerful analysis device using NVIDIA AGX System, that enables real-time portable DNA sequencing analysis. MinIT is helping farmers fight crop disease, biologists understand the sea, and more. “As data streams faster from our sequencing devices, GPU technology like NVIDIA’s becomes central to preserving the real-time properties of our DNA sequencing technology.” READ MORE Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/10/10/oxford-nanopore-dna-sequencer-nvidia-agx/

8. 4 AGROBOT AIMS TO REVOLUTIONIZE THE AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY Debuted at GTC Europe, NVIDIA’s latest I am AI docuseries episode focuses on Argobot: an AI- powered autonomous harvester that’s poised to revolutionize the agriculture industry. “Agrobot's system uses semantic segmentation, which relies on a convolutional neural network to classify each pixel of the incoming image as either belonging to the strawberry class or not.” WATCH HERE Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXQg_M7_6_E

9. 5 INTEGRATING AI INTO CUSTOMER FACING APPLICATIONS Nitzan Mekel, managing vice president of machine learning at Capital One, discussed on the AI Podcast how the banking giant is integrating AI and machine learning into customer-facing applications such as fraud-monitoring and more. “What really turned me on to the opportunity, and what gets me excited everyday now, is the fact that we use AI and machine learning pretty much in every facet of our business.” LISTEN HERE Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/ai-podcast/

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