I’ve become more and more interested in machine learning during last year. This is my way of collecting and sharing interesting reads on the topic I stumble upon. Those posts are published each Friday, they are divided into few categories and the format is constantly evolving.
News
In this part, I share interesting news from machine learning and artificial intelligence world. Those are mostly not very scientific articles about interesting applications, predictions and controversies that AI causes.
Exploring the mysteries of Go with AlphaGo and China’s top players
AlphaGo together with Chinese Go Association is bringing together the most talented Go players and computer scientist to explore deeper into the game. Turns out, that last year victory of AlphaGo over human player totally changed how humans play this game.
Who will pay insurance in the era of self-driving cars?
This article discusses impact self-driving cars may have on the insurance industry. As it is suggested currently by analysts, and some first legislation follows, car makers may be responsible for that cost.
Why deep learning is suddenly changing your life?
Just another article that discusses what exactly happened in recent years, that machine learning seems to be everywhere and changing everything. It also explains basic terms and methods used in the field.
AI based hedge fund created a new currency
The article, with a bit sensationalist title, discuss new fintech startup Numerai, that uses open market for AI algorithms to make its trading decisions and rewarding authors of the best algorithms.
How predictive AI will change shopping
The author of this texts brings up few examples how AI revolution impacts the retail world. Thanks to better data collections, connected devices and putting this data together, retail companies can offer better suggestions, increasing their profits.
Learning materials
Here I’m sharing material for learning ML that I found useful – online courses, blogs, books etc. This is usually rather technical stuff.
Artificial Intelligence and the Growing Importance of Soft Skills
Very interesting read about which skills are endangered and which not by AI. If you want to prepare for robots taking your job, that’s a good start.
Introduction to Machine Learning
This short video from Intel Nervana AI academy explains basic terms of Machine Learning and most popular types of it.
Stanford series on Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning
Another academic source of knowledge. I haven’t had time to dig into it, but quick skimming suggests, that’s another amazing 20hrs of the content of ML knowledge, this time targeted at NLP.
This is it for today, thanks for reading. If you liked the post, let me know and please check other parts of the series.