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CIO

In the 1990s Garry Kasparov achieved rock star status in the chess world with a freestyle approach that made mincemeat of his opponents. But Kasparov’s reign as world chess master ended in 1997 at the digital hands of IBM’s Deep Blue, making him the first high-profile victim of the modern machine. He would not be […]

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Now there’s an app for that

The Economist

ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) can sometimes be put to rather whimsical uses. In 2012 Google announced that one of its computers, after watching thousands of hours of YouTube videos, had trained itself to identify cats. Earlier this year a secretive AI firm called DeepMind, bought by Google in 2014, reported in Nature that it had managed […]

50 Smartest Companies 2015

MIT Tech Review

Massive solar panel factories. Fertility treatments. Friendly robots. Meet the companies reshaping the technology business. Read the full article at Technology Review

5 AI startups to watch in 2015

Tech Republic

For some, artificial intelligence (AI) represents the next logical progression in the advancement of technology. For others, it is simply mankind trying to play God. Despite the ardent arguments lobbied from either side of the debate, AI continues to move forward. Tools such as IBM Watson and Wolfram|Alpha are growing in popularity, with the former […]

Could this computer save your life?

CNN

Cancer is good at hiding. It’s so good that sometimes sick patients are sent home with a clean bill of health. And screenings don’t always help: A 2013 study by Oxford University found “no evidence” that screening programs are responsible for the decline in breast cancer, and a study by the Huntsman Cancer Institute last […]

Deep learning in diagnostic healthcare: The future?

IDG Connect

The accumulation of X-rays, CT scans and MRIs means that doctors face an enormous task of sifting through this medical data in order to reach diagnoses. But now, thanks to advances in machine learning, this task is becoming much easier. Enlitic, is one such machine learning startup that is using deep learning techniques to revolutionize […]

Why deep learning is at least inspired by biology, if not the brain

Gigaom

As deep learning continues gathering steam among researchers, entrepreneurs and the press, there’s a loud-and-getting-louder debate about whether its algorithms actually operate like the human brain does. The comparison might not make much of a difference to developers who just want to build applications that can identify objects or predict the next word you’ll text, […]

No, you don’t need a ton of data to do deep learning

Gigaom

There are a couple of seemingly contradictory memes rolling around the deep learning field. One is that you need a truly epic amount of data to do interesting work. The other is that in many subject areas there is a ton of data but it’s not just laying around for data scientists to snarf up. […]