Yes, Patreon is currently in the news because they kicked a number of creators off the platform for anti-feminism and racist speech – but whichever way the news cycle plays out, the underlying business model and idea in the context of technology and AI is still worth a few thoughts. Patreon was created in 2013 …
Stanford Music + Computer Science = 500 million valuation in 5 years Read More »
In 2014, the president founded a startup in the US White House called the United States Digital Service, with the aim to gather the best technology, design and government talent to help tackle immigration, healthcare, and veteran’s benefits. For USDS, the MO is to recruit top designers, engineers, product managers, and digital policy experts and …
AI/Digital Startups within the US Government And the Hunt for AI Talent Read More »
Warren Enskat / Weekly AI Summary (WE-WAIS) / 12-23-2018 Some of the AI developments and thoughts from this past week: – The AI Index 2018 … artificial intelligence outpaces computer science in research; Europe is the largest publisher of AI papers, followed by China and the US; ML and probabilistic reasoning top the list of …
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How important is AI? Apple Senior Vice President, Machine Learning and AI Strategy, John Giannandrea (brought in from Google earlier this year), was just promoted to the executive team, reporting directly to Tim Cook. “Machine learning and AI are important to Apple’s future as they are fundamentally changing the way people interact with technology, and already …
A great in-depth read in the NYT on Donald Ervin Knuth, “the Yoda of Silicon Valley”, as he celebrates his 80th birthday. His bible of tech, “the Art of Computer Programming”, also known as TAOCP, as in Tao, for now consists of four volumes, each ranging from 750 to 1000 pages. Bill Gates famously wrote …
It’s A Bright Future, If You’re An Algorithm / The Art of Computer Programming Read More »
The Neural Processing Information Systems conference is the Woodstock of artificial intelligence. Currently in its 32nd year, the conference sold out in less than 10 minutes… better than most rock stars for Madison Square Garden. In short, NIPS is a big deal. Well, it‘s not NIPS anymore, now that the organizers changed it to NeurIPS …
NeurIPS 2018: The ComiCon of AI… Themes, Sponsors, New AI Breakthroughs Read More »
The 94-page AI Index 2018 tries to be a comprehensive resource of data & analysis for professionals and the general public to learn about artificial intelligence. Its steering committee includes top names from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, McKinsey, SRI International, Open AI, and Partnership on AI. Some of the highlights for 2018 are below: – Artificial …
AI Index 2018: Europe – China – United States; AI Outpaces CS Read More »
We keep writing about Tencent, Didi, SenseTime and other AI tech firms in China… Kai-Fu Lee in his new AI book makes some fascinating business model comparisons… US vs China AI: A) Yelp stayed with its app, while Dianping in China 5 years ago spent heavily to hire and manage an army of scooter-riders to …
China vs US Artificial Intelligence: Business Model Comparisons Read More »
CNBC International this week published an in-depth and provocative video report on “China’s Rise in AI”, presenting and projecting a set of data points that highlight the framework for the AI competition between the US and China, and who is and will be ahead. Take a look: China’s Rise in AI/CNBC International Kai-Fu Lee, who …
The Rise of AI and why Companies that Wait to Adopt AI May Never Catch Up (Harvard) Read More »
How does the US army deal with Artificial Intelligence? Two years ago it set up the “Rapid Capabilities Office”, RCO, to deal with emerging technologies and to focus on top modernization priorities, especially AI. As of November 2018, the RCO is led by COL John Eggert as the acting Executive Director. Eggert enlisted in the …
How does the US Army deal with AI? RCO, AFC, AI Signals and PE firms Read More »