This week in AI & Machine Learning: Facebook AI predicts effective drug combinations, Microsoft acquires Nuance, MobileNet v3, applied ML summit, MLOps for Renewable Energy, and more!
Author’s Note:
If you’re interested in learning about computer vision or building labeled datasets for object detection, checkout my upcoming workshop: Intro to Computer Vision: Building Object Detection Models and Datasets. I hope to see you there!
🤖 Artificial Intelligence News:
- Facebook AI predicts effective drug combinations to fight complex diseases faster
- Microsoft acquires Nuance for $19.7B ← Microsoft is planning to acquire this speech recognition company to increase their presence in healthcare!
- Cruise’s head of artificial intelligence wants the autonomous-car startup to be defined by its AI innovation
- Europe eyes strict rules for artificial intelligence “The European Union wants to avoid the worst of what artificial intelligence can do”
- Artificial Intelligence And The Internet Of Things (AIoT) Hold The Promise Of A More Connected Future
🛠️ Developer Tools & Education:
- MobileNet v3 is now on TensorFlow hub ← If you use tensorflow, you can now easily get MobileNet v3 into your projects!
- Scikit-learn now has a MOOC made by its developers ← this is looking like it will be a great machine learning resource.
- OpenCV Haar Cascades
- What Is a Gradient in Machine Learning?
📅 Upcoming Online AI & Data Science Events:
- Emerging Stronger with IoT by creating a solution blueprint that VCs will love (Apr 20–9am PST) ← The CEO of Sixgill is talking at this event!
- Accelerate Analytics and AI with Graph Algorithms (Apr 21–23)
- PyTorch Ecosystem Day (Apr 21–8:00am PST)
- The Applied ML Summit (Apr 21–9:00am PST) “This is a two-day, free virtual interactive event on data engineering for applied machine learning.”
- Collaborative Robotics 2021 — New Systems, Applications and Opportunities (Apr 21–11am PST)
- Intro to Computer Vision: Building Object Detection Models and Datasets (Apr 28–5:30pm PST): ← I’ll be teaching this, so come say hi!
🎤 Interesting Podcasts & Interviews:
- Inclusive Design for Seeing AI with Saqib Shaikh
- AutoML for Natural Language Processing with Abhishek Thakur
- MLOps for Renewable Energy
- Going full bore with Graphcore!
- Cade Metz talks about how AI took over the world
- How to Build a Data Science Culture | John K Thompson
- An interview with Gary Song, deep learning practitioner at Unity Technologies
📄 Notable Research Papers:
- MobileStyleGAN: A Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network for High-Fidelity Image Synthesis
- GANcraft: Unsupervised 3D Neural Rendering of Minecraft Worlds
- Self-supervised Video Object Segmentation by Motion Grouping
- LocalViT: Bringing Locality to Vision Transformers
- Epigenetic evolution of deep convolutional models
- Object-Centric Representation Learning for Video Question Answering
🤝 Connect with AI practitioners of all levels
- Stay connected with artificial intelligence and machine learning practitioners around the world! Slack Group | LinkedIn Group
🦈 About the Author & Sixgill:
- Sage Elliott is a Developer Evangelist at Sixgill & passionate about making AI more approachable. Connect with Sage on Twitter or LinkedIn.
- Sixgill, LLC provides custom enterprise AI solutions, end-to-end machine learning lifecycle management, and fast data annotation for computer vision.
