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Week 41, Oct. 9th
This week, we talk about Amazon, Alexa and Deep Fakes.
📊 2020, State of AI
Two AI Investors produced the third State of AI report showing up a large range of dimensions about AI. Take a look at it!
🏫 Machine learning is so 2019. 2020 is machine teaching.
In this new Kaggle competition, you have to create algorithms for "Knowledge Tracing," the modeling of student knowledge over time.
The goal is to accurately predict how students will perform on future test questions.
🤖 Deepfakes to protect protesters
A new documentary uses deepfakes to protect the privacy of at-risk subjects.
🦜 Alexa knows who's talking
Alexa from Amazon uses acoustic, linguistic, and visual cues to help the system keep track of individual speakers and topics of conversation.
💵 Amazon's new AI Research Center
Columbia Engineering and Amazon Announce Creation of New York AI Research Center
🚗 Real-Time License Plate Identification System
People from cortexlabs have developed an end-to-end system to read in real-time license plate.
Easy: use a solar panel, a Raspberry Pi with a GPS module, and a bit of Tensorflow.
What about you? Have you noticed something else?
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Have a good week-end,
Maxime 🙃, from Toulouse, France with 🌸
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