Month: November 2018

Hiring heavyweight AI talent away from tech

Hiring heavyweight AI talent away from tech: Anthem & Google

That’s one way companies are going about investing in AI: showing their seriousness, and try to get to results faster. Case in point: last month, Healthcare provider Anthem hired Google’s search head, Israeli scientist Udi Manber, as head of artificial intelligence. He is the first person with an AI role in the company and will …

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Spinning Up in Deep RL

Spinning Up in Deep RL

I get a lot of questions around where and how to learn (about) machine, deep and reinforcement learning. Open AI (the non for profit group founded by The Who is Who of technology) recently created Spinning Up (https://lnkd.in/eNjGXAt), an educational resource to learn about deep reinforcement learning – it has terminology introductions, essays, a curated …

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Enter Carebots: Robots that help the elderly with activities

Enter Carebots: Robots that help the elderly with activities

At age 18-19, during my social year and a half, I worked at a retirement home caring for the elderly. It was tremendously rewarding, but also brutal, physically and emotionally – for me, it was 18 months of laughter, soreness and tears, but for the career nurses and caregivers, the diminishing budgets and growing number …

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