AI for a dead friend — #12

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1/ A grieving person used AI to build a bot that talked in her dead friend’s voice. link

2/ Researchers at Google taught robots to acquire new skills through shared experiences with other robots. link

3/ Samsung acquired Viv, an AI assistant built by the creators of Apple’s Siri. link

4/ MIT built a platform to gather a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence. link

5/ Udacity started building the world’s first open source self-driving car. link

6/ eBay acquires visual search engine, Corrigon, for $30m to build out its machine learning capabilities. link

7/ MIT made 23 artificial intelligence lectures available for free. link

8/ Machine learning engineer at the University of California argued that “scientists should embrace deep learning without being ‘too anal’ about the black box” behind an AI’s thoughts. link

9/ Google researchers proposed a methodology for measuring and preventing discrimination in supervised learning. link

10/ The Nature Conservancy launched a campaign to sponsor neural networks that can tell what’s on the end of a fishing line. link

ps Thanks to David Woo from Capital One Growth Ventures for recommending a deep learning article this week. It was written before the 10/3 cutoff, but I wanted to include it here.

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