hi all. 2018 has been another banner year for AI+ML and its not easy to summarize or keep up with developments but heres one of the most comprehensive/ top content lists youll find anywhere. heres a big pile of ~200 top links on the 2nd half.
its a list of many advances.[a] reinforcement learning, a hybrid between supervised and unsupervised learning, played a very big role this year. there were many advances and the top areas are image/ video/ computer graphics[a2], medical[a3], prediction[a4].
there were many new initiatives announced.[b] these include large/ top university department creations/ reorganizations around the area, a very sure/ strong sign of a massive worldwide paradigm shift in play, and everyone else knows it.
“pushback” is a general theme in last years reports/ content.[c] some of the wonder of the field is wearing off and people are realizing there is some dark side to all technology even the wondrous kind. “pandoras box”.
hardware and chips are increasingly being designed with neuromorphic ideas in play, and all major chip companies are now chasing AI designs although nvidia is still mostly the leader in this area.[d] however their main focus is still graphics and it does seem like disruptive innovators/ upstarts in this area are possible.
lots of excellent overviews to help make sense of it all.[e]
so theres so much wave and momentum and a lot of prognostications for the future some by the leading authorities/ visionaries who arent all that shy about voicing their ideas.[f]
china seems to be a world leader at least in terms of government commitment/ investment.[g] not sure it is entirely paying off already but it looks like they are positioned to make great gains in the near future.
there are many excellent papers announcing breakthru new advances.[h]
human brain research is tying in heavily with AI work these days, years ago there was not as much of a connection but its becoming much more intertwined.[i]
- a. advance
- a2. image
- a3. medical
- a4. prediction
- b. initiative
- c. pushback
- d. chips/ hardware
- e. overview
- f. future
- g. china
- h. papers
- i. brain
a. advance
- 1. FBI is set to use AI to identify criminals who have burnt or cut their fingerprints | Daily Mail Online
- 2. AI analyzing telescope data discovers 72 new fast radio bursts from billions of light-years away | Daily Mail Online
- 3. AI powered listening posts are now helping to protect endangered elephants from poachers | Daily Mail Online
- 4. Artificial Intelligence Writes Burger King’s Latest Commercials – YellRobot
- 5. Capture the Flag: the emergence of complex cooperative agents | DeepMind
- 6. Fake news detector algorithm works better than a human — ScienceDaily
- 7. Police Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Spot Written Lies – Nextgov
- 8. The new tool in the art of spotting forgeries: artificial intelligence | US news | The Guardian
- 9. 5 Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Already Transforming the Banking Industry
- 10. Can artificial intelligence take the bias out of hiring? – The Boston Globe
- 11. Can listening to bees help save them – and us? – BBC News
- 12. MIT ups the ante in getting one AI to teach another | ZDNet
- 13. NASA is developing AI to give directions in space
- 14. New Artificial Intelligence Does Something Extraordinary — It Remembers
- 15. OpenAI Demonstrates Complex Manipulation Transfer from Simulation to Real World – IEEE Spectrum
- 16. Self-Creating Neural Networks That Explain Themselves
- 17. How the Mathematics of Algebraic Topology Is Revolutionizing Brain Science – MIT Technology Review
- 18. IBM’s new system automatically selects the optimal AI algorithm | VentureBeat
- 19. Machine-learning system tackles speech and object recognition, all at once | MIT News
- 20. A Computer Will Determine the Size of Your Next Paycheck | Institutional Investor
- 21. DeepMind Created a Test to Measure an AI’s Ability to Reason
- 22. DeepMind’s New Research on Linking Memories, and How It Applies to AI
- 23. Sophia’s AI — June 2018 Brief Update » goertzel.org
- 24. 4 Powerful Ways Artificial Intelligence is Molding E-Commerce
- 25. Do androids dream of electric beats? How AI is changing music for good | Music | The Guardian
- 26. TTH | 10 industries to be revolutionized by Big Data
- 27. Don’t Just Lecture Robots—Make Them Learn | WIRED
- 28. BBC – Future – The designer changing the way aircraft are built
- 29. AlphaZero: Shedding new light on the grand games of chess, shogi and Go | DeepMind
- 30. DeepMind’s AlphaZero now showing human-like intuition in historical ‘turning point’ for AI
- 31. A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play | Science
- 32. “Superhuman” AI Triumphs Playing the Toughest Board Games – Scientific American
- 33. A radical new neural network design could overcome big challenges in AI – MIT Technology Review
a2. image
- 1. Facebook rolls out 3D photos that use AI to simulate depth – TechCrunch
- 2. Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432,500 – The Verge
- 3. A 17-year-old developed the code for the AI portrait that sold for $432,000 at Christie’s | The Seattle Times
- 4. A Google intern’s BigGAN AI makes super realistic images
- 5. Artificial Intelligence can predict your personality by scanning eyes, study
- 6. How satellite data and artificial intelligence are putting a spotlight on our blue planet | Virgin
- 7. Imagine this: Creating new visual concepts by recombining familiar ones | DeepMind
- 8. Multi-Face Tracking to Help AI Follow the Action – IBM Blog Research
- 9. “Gradient Descent”: AI is their paintbrush, but the artwork is no less
- 10. How three French students used borrowed code to put the first AI portrait in Christie’s – The Verge
- 11. What algorithmic art can teach us about artificial intelligence – The Verge
- 12. A small team of student AI coders beats Google’s machine-learning code – MIT Technology Review
- 13. Letting neural networks be weird • Do neural nets dream of electric sheep?
- 14. Let’s draw!: New deep learning technique for realistic caricature art | EurekAlert! Science News
- 15. AI-system promises better art reproductions – but not yet | Cosmos
- 16. These People Are Not Real—They Were Created By AI – Motherboard
- 17. NVIDIA Invents AI Interactive Graphics – NVIDIA Developer News CenterNVIDIA Developer News Center
a3. medical
- 1. Deep learning algorithm detects Alzheimer’s up to six years before doctors
- 2. AI-Human “Hive Mind” Diagnoses Pneumonia – IEEE Spectrum
- 3. Artificial intelligence model “learns” from patient data to make cancer treatment less toxic | MIT News
- 4. Artificial intelligence used to predict how cancers will evolve and spread | The Independent
- 5. This AI Just Beat Human Doctors On A Clinical Exam
- 6. MRI Images Created by AI Could Help Train Deep Learning Models
a4. prediction
- 1. A.I. Is Helping Scientists Predict When and Where the Next Big Earthquake Will Be – The New York Times
- 2. AI-powered predictor beats Vegas betting markets in sports forecasting
- 3. An AI might have just become the world’s best weather forecaster | World Economic Forum
- 4. Artificial Intelligence Nails Predictions of Earthquake Aftershocks – Scientific American
- 5. Google and Harvard build an AI that predicts earthquake aftershocks – ydraft
- 6. Google and Harvard use AI to predict earthquake aftershocks | VentureBeat
- 7. How AI is being used to beat the bookies in Las Vegas
- 8. To improve weather forecasting for farmers in India, IBM is relying on AI – Livemint
- 9. A robot scientist will dream up new materials to advance computing and fight pollution – MIT Technology Review
- 10. Alphabet’s DeepMind AI Algorithm Wins Protein-Folding Contest – Bloomberg
- 11. Google’s DeepMind predicts 3D shapes of proteins | Science | The Guardian
- 12. AlphaFold: Using AI for scientific discovery | DeepMind
b. initiative
- 1. DARPA Starts $2 Billion Campaign to Develop Next Wave of AI Technologies – NextBigFuture.com
- 2. DeepMind and Unity will work together on AI research
- 3. Facebook Aims To Help Machines Understand Language With ‘Talk The Walk’ Project
- 4. Google and Facebook Are Teaming Up on Artificial Intelligence Tech | Fortune
- 5. India considering military usage of Artificial Intelligence | india news | Hindustan Times
- 6. Japan to ensure its people learn AI alongside three Rs, Asia News & Top Stories – The Straits Times
- 7. Mindfire and SingularityNET form partnership to unite leading minds in human-level AI
- 8. The Pentagon is investing $2 billion into artificial intelligence
- 9. The Pentagon Wants AI to Take Over the Scientific Process – Defense One
- 10. The Race For AI: Google, Intel, Apple In A Rush To Grab Artificial Intelligence Startups
- 11. The US Air Force is working on general artificial intelligence
- 12. US Air Force Wants More Commercial Companies Working AI Projects – Defense One
- 13. Walmart is building an AI lab inside one of its stores | TechCrunch
- 14. Global Artificial Intelligence Market Projected to Top $7 Billion by End of 2018 | Benzinga
- 15. IBM launches tool aimed at detecting AI bias – BBC News
- 16. LG Joins Growing List of Tech Firms Entering Toronto’s AI Scene – Bloomberg
- 17. Meet the ‘Lady Gaga of Mathematics’ helming France’s AI task force – The Verge
- 18. On Your Marks: Business Leaders Prepare For Arms Race In Artificial Intelligence
- 19. Sophia and SingularityNET: Q&A – h+ Mediah+ Media
- 20. To win the AI race, we need more humans | TheHill
- 21. The Chairman of Nokia on Ensuring Every Employee Has a Basic Understanding of Machine Learning — Including Him
- 22. Uber Launches an AI Lab – MIT Technology Review
- 23. Project Maven to Deploy Computer Algorithms to War Zone by Year’s End > U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE > Article
c. pushback
- 1. AI Hedge Fund Is Said to Liquidate After Less Than Two Years – Bloomberg
- 2. AI is not “magic dust” for your company, says Google’s Cloud AI boss – MIT Technology Review
- 3. Amazon Workers Protest Rekognition Face Recognition Contracts for Police
- 4. An AI Analyzed My Twitter Feed and Discovered I’m a Shithead – Motherboard
- 5. Academic expert says Google and Facebook’s AI researchers aren’t doing science
- 6. Artificial intelligence poses a greater challenge to the world than terrorism, top scientist warns | Daily Mail Online
- 7. Is Artificial Intelligence Too Dehumanizing to Succeed? | Alternet
- 8. The AI winter is well on its way | VentureBeat
- 9. The Big Problem With Machine Learning Algorithms – Bloomberg
- 10. The dream of driverless cars is dying | The Spectator
- 11. The World Economic Forum warns that AI may destabilize the financial system – MIT Technology Review
- 12. Yuval Noah Harari on Why Technology Favors Tyranny – The Atlantic
- 13. NIPS 2018 Paper Reviews In; Researchers Unimpressed
- 14. What’s slowing down the pace of AI innovation? | Gengo AI
- 15. Artificial Intelligence: The Future Is Human | CFA Institute Market Integrity Insights
- 16. Big Data and Machine Learning Won’t Save Us from Another Financial Crisis
- 17. Establishing an AI code of ethics will be harder than people think – MIT Technology Review
- 18. One of the fathers of AI is worried about its future – MIT Technology Review
- 19. ‘The discourse is unhinged’: how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong | Technology | The Guardian
- 20. In the Age of A.I., Is Seeing Still Believing? | The New Yorker
- 21. DeepMind have created an IQ test for AI, and it didn’t do too well | World Economic Forum
- 22. What’s Creepy about Google’s Duplex AI Demo? – Brian Cort – Medium
- 23. Sophia the Robot, More Marketing Machine Than AI Marvel – Skynet Today
- 24. 2018 in Review: 10 AI Failures – SyncedReview – Medium
- 25. Algorithms Should Be Designed Like the iPhone
d. chips/ hardware
- 1. A Rare Peek into IBM’s True North Neuromorphic Chip
- 2. New Supercomputer with 1 Million Processors Is World’s Fastest Brain-Mimicking Machine
- 3. ‘Human brain’ supercomputer with 1 million processors switched on for first time
- 4. AI and Compute
- 5. Alibaba to launch own AI chip to avoid overdependence on US – CNET
- 6. An $18m supercomputer to simulate brains of mice in the land of Swiss cheese. How apt, HPE • The Register
- 7. As Nvidia expands in artificial intelligence, Intel defends turf | Reuters
- 8. Deep Learning Just Dipped into Exascale Territory
- 9. DeepMind researchers develop neural arithmetic logic units (NALU)
- 10. Google says ‘exponential’ growth of AI is changing nature of compute | ZDNet
- 11. How the GPU became the heart of AI and machine learning | ZDNet
- 12. Intel sold US$1 billion of artificial intelligence chips in 2017 – Channel NewsAsia
- 13. Micron Plans to Invest $100 Million in AI Start-Ups – TheStreet
- 14. NVIDIA Reinvents Computer Graphics with Turing Architecture | NVIDIA Newsroom
- 15. Tesla is building its own ‘artificial intelligence’ chips for autonomous cars
- 16. Interpreting AI Compute Trends – AI Impacts
- 17. A new brain-inspired architecture could improve how computers handle data and advance AI | EurekAlert! Science News
- 18. This AI Calculates at the Speed of Light – D-brief
- 19. Researchers Move Closer to Completely Optical Artificial Neural Network | News Releases | The Optical Society
- 20. IBM, NVIDIA Deliver Infrastructure for the AI Enterprise | NVIDIA Blog
e. overview
- 1. The Many Applications of Deep Learning
- 2. Deep Learning Past Present and Future A Review
- 3. What is machine learning? We drew you another flowchart – MIT Technology Review
- 4. Learning From Data – Online Course (MOOC)
- 5. Overview of Artificial Intelligence Buzz – machinevision – Medium
- 6. Andrew Ng Answers CEOs’ FAQ on AI – SyncedReview – Medium
- 7. Best 20 AI and machine learning blogs to follow religiously | Gengo AI
- 8. Intro to optimization in deep learning: Busting the myth about batch normalization
- 9. The basics of AI: Why it’s here to help, not harm
- 10. What is deep learning? Everything you need to know | ZDNet
- 11. 30 Amazing Machine Learning Projects for the Past Year (v.2018)
- 12. Artificial Entertainment: A Century of AI in Film
- 13. Photo: What A.I. looks like, according to IMB A.I.
- 14. Researchers wrap their arms around the messy world of big data | News | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- 15. Want to convince someone that you’re human? This one word could do the trick | Science | AAAS
- 16. Inside the infinite imagination of a computer | Dazed
- 17. The AI boom is happening all over the world, and it’s accelerating quickly – The Verge
- 18. MIT Deep Learning
- 19. Overview of Reinforcement Learning – machinevision – Medium
f. future
- 1. In The Pocket | Can artificial intelligence be creative?
- 2. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says Artificial Intelligence-first approach will transform our lives – The Financial Express
- 3. The ascent of Artificial Intelligence: How will AI change the nation-state?
- 4. SingularityNET’s Ben Goertzel has a grand vision for the future of AI | TechCrunch
- 5. 4 experts weigh in on AI’s role in the US, education | CIO Dive
- 6. What Is The Ultimate Goal Of Artificial Intelligence?
- 7. When Will We Have Artificial Intelligence As Smart as a Human? Here’s What Experts Think
- 8. Worried about AI taking over the world? You may be making some rather unscientific assumptions
- 9. Strategic Competition in an Era of Artificial Intelligence | Center for a New American Security
- 10. Artificial intelligence: AI could spur global growth, study shows
- 11. The Divide Between People Who Hate and Love Artificial Intelligence Is Not Real – Motherboard
- 12. Citizen Comfort with AI Growing, Accenture Study Shows | Business Wire
- 13. Can emotion-regulating tech translate across cultures? | Aeon Essays
- 14. Can we trust the intuition of AI? – Sankalp Shangari – Medium
- 15. In Search of the New Human-Machine Empathy
- 16. Jürgen Schmidhuber on the robot future: ‘They will pay as much attention to us as we do to ants’ | Technology | The Guardian
- 17. Garry Kasparov is surprisingly upbeat about our future AI overlords | ZDNet
- 18. Weapons of the weak: Russia and AI-driven asymmetric warfare
- 19. Tech Luminaries Address Singularity – IEEE Spectrum
- 20. How We Can Prepare for Catastrophically Dangerous AI—and Why We Can’t Wait
- 21. Machine Learning & Physical Retail : A Love Story Waiting to Happen ?
- 22. AI predictions for 2019 that you can’t afford to ignore | Gengo AI
- 23. Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality | VentureBeat
g. china
- 1. Who′s afraid of artificial intelligence in China? | Science| In-depth reporting on science and technology | DW | 18.09.2018
- 2. AI Business Ecosystem Takes Shape in Guangzhou After 37 Chinese Firms Join Its AI Institute | Yicai Global
- 3. Artificial Intelligence Stirs Up Public Anger As Chinese Simultaneous Interpreters Feel “Disrespected” – China Money Network
- 4. Artificial intelligence, immune to fear or favour, is helping to make China’s foreign policy | South China Morning Post
- 5. China’s application of AI should be a Sputnik moment for the U.S. But will it be? – The Washington Post
- 6. China’s Artificial Intelligence Revolution: a Sputnik Moment for the West? | The Diplomat
- 7. Chinese AI beats 15 doctors in tumor diagnosis competition
- 8. Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras – The New York Times
- 9. New Report Says Chinese AI is Rich in Funding but Short on Talents
- 10. The Amazing Ways Chinese Tech Giant Alibaba Uses Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning
- 11. Beyond the U.S–Chinese AI Arms Race
- 12. How cheap labour drives China’s AI ambitions | Technology News, The Indian Express
- 13. China could lead world in AI research in coming years, Elsevier report finds | VentureBeat
h. papers
- 1. [1609.03971] Feynman Machine: The Universal Dynamical Systems Computer
- 2. [1803.08823] A high-bias, low-variance introduction to Machine Learning for physicists
- 3. [1806.10729] Procedural Level Generation Improves Generality of Deep Reinforcement Learning
- 4. [1807.02291] Sliced Recurrent Neural Networks
- 5. [1807.03341] Troubling Trends in Machine Learning Scholarship
- 6. [1809.02942] Cellular automata as convolutional neural networks
- 7. [1809.09261] Resilient Computing with Reinforcement Learning on a Dynamical System: Case Study in Sorting
- 8. [1809.10276] Growing and Retaining AI Talent for the United States Government
- 9. [1811.02546] A Model for General Intelligence
- 10. Semantic information, agency, & physics | Interface Focus
- 11. [1811.06032] Natural Environment Benchmarks for Reinforcement Learning
i. brain
- 1. Your brain is like 100 billion mini-computers all working together | New Scientist
- 2. Jeff Hawkins Is Finally Ready to Explain His Brain Research – The New York Times
- 3. Scientists identify a new kind of human brain cell
- 4. New Theory of Intelligence May Disrupt AI and Neuroscience | Psychology Today
- 5. This Algorithm Can Simulate Our Brain At 100%, But No Supercomputer Can Run It
Turing Machine 