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January 26 · Issue #23 · View online
Your newsletter on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning news around the Asia-Pacific region, selected by Eugenia Wan! Check out our website www.MachineLearning.ai
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Dogs or Towels? Humans can easily tell the difference.
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AI Robots slash Due Diligence time in M&A deals
Artificial intelligence has slashed the time lawyers spend on due diligence in merger and acquisition deals by more than half, researchers have revealed.Due diligence now takes less than three months on average from sourcing a deal to completion, according to a survey of M&A professionals, who credi
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EU Parliamentarians kick off Industrial Policy on AI and Robotics
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World Economic Forum warns of AI’s potential to worsen global inequality
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A.I. Finds Ways to Legally Copy Drugs Pharma Spends Billions Developing
Drug companies spend billions developing and protecting their trademark pharmaceuticals. In a breakthrough, researchers have demonstrated an A.I. which can find new methods for producing existing drugs in a way that doesn’t infringe on existing patents. Here’s how it works.
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X-ray scans powered by AI could slash waiting times for expert diagnosis
The study, carried out at the University of Warwick, makes use of computer vision and machine learning to speed up the identification of anomalies and refers them to a human specialist.
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Google, Amazon, and Microsoft face new pressure over facial recognition contracts
On Tuesday, a group of 90 advocacy groups penned a letter to Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, requesting that the companies pledge not to sell facial recognition technology to the government.
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SoftBank Vision Fund bets $100m on US AI startup Globality
TOKYO – SoftBank Group’s $100 billion venture capital fund, SoftBank Vision Fund, has invested $100 million in U.S.-based Globality, a platform
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Facebook backs Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence with $7.5 million
Facebook will donate $7.5 million over the next five years to establish The Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence in Munich.
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Artificial Intelligence Will Replace Your Financial Adviser - And That's A Good Thing (Author's Opinion)
AI is about to change forever how investors obtain financial advisory services.
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How to Set Up an AI Center of Excellence
If you’re a large company using AI, you need one.
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How the life insurance industry is using AI to attract millennials
Here’s why the future of life insurance might be sharing data from wearables for better rates.
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AI, Machine Learning Jobs Among Highest Paid in Tech
Artificial-intelligence and machine-learning professionals are expected to earn some of the highest salaries for information-technology jobs in the year ahead.
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Basic NLP on the Texts of Harry Potter: Sentiment Analysis
I’m Greg Rafferty, a data scientist in the Bay Area. You can check out the code for this project on my github and see what else I’ve been up to on my LinkedIn. Feel free to contact me with any…
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What’s coming in TensorFlow 2.0
Thanks to an incredible and diverse community, TensorFlow has grown to become one of the most loved and widely adopted ML platforms in the world. This community includes: In November, TensorFlow…
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4 Ways to Debug your Deep Neural Network
So you’ve spent weeks building a dataset and coding up a neural network. You’ve trained the model, and are getting less-than-stellar results. What do you do next? Deep learning is often seen as a…
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How to do Deep Learning on Graphs with Graph Convolutional Networks
Machine learning on graphs is a difficult task due to the highly complex, but also informative graph structure. This post is the second in a series on how to do deep learning on graphs with Graph…
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A.I. Policy Is Tricky. From Around the World, They Came to Hash It Out.
Dozens of senior policymakers who are trying to agree on rules for artificial intelligence gathered at M.I.T. There was even some consensus.
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How Artificial General Intelligence might be created
The goal of creating thinking machines is not a new one. It has been theorized and fantasized about for almost as long as humans have been capable of attributing intelligence to the non-living. From…
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Meituan Drives Instant Food Delivery With AI “Super Brain”
From Beijing to Barcelona to Buenos Aires, startups like Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Swiggy, Zomato and Go-Jek are revolutionizing urban food delivery. In the first quarter of 2018, food delivery accounted…
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We analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next
Our study of 25 years of artificial-intelligence research suggests the era of deep learning is coming to an end.
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3 charts show how China’s AI industry is propped up by 3 Companies
More than half of the country’s major AI players have funding ties that lead back to Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent.
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Shanghai Court Adopts New AI Assistant
The technology can reportedly ‘ascertain facts’ and ‘identify evidence’ during trials.
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Why Are Chinese Courts Turning to AI?
A drive to standardize judgments for “similar cases” has courts experimenting with big data and AI.
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China's AI scientists teach a neural net to train itself
Researchers at China’s Sun Yat-Sen University, with help from Chinese startup SenseTime, improved upon their own attempt to get a computer to discern human poses in images by adding a bit of self-supervised training. The work suggests continued efforts to limit the reliance on human labels and “ground truth” in AI.
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AI-based Autonomous Bus debuts in Shanghai
DeepBlue Technology has showcased an AI-driving bus at the New Generation Artificial Intelligence Future Development Summit in Shanghai.
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Singapore releases model governance framework on AI, Technology
: THE BUSINESS TIMES Technology - SINGAPORE has released a model governance framework on artificial intelligence (AI) which companies in the Republic and elsewhere can adopt as they grapple with issues that have emerged with new technology.. Read more at The Business Times.
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AXA Hong Kong charts AI path
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AXA Hong Kong charts AI path
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AI tested at London Heathrow could prevent plane delays in bad weather
Heathrow Airport is trialling new technology that could dramatically cut travel delays caused by low visibility on runways.
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