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"The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it."

It's not that hard, look: 2, 3, 5, 7. Four on my first try!

First we had to worry about AI taking our jobs, now protozoa?

Former Slack developer responsible for the system no longer works there, and breathes the deepest sigh of relief.

OK who wants to make my Mom a personal website so I don't have to?

Every company has a story about how things went wrong. Here is Grab's.

I've been sayin' it. I've been sayin' it for ten years. Ain't I been sayin' it, Miguel? Yeah, I've been sayin' it.

And this is why I have no interest in smart home devices. Unreliable, insecure, and short-lived.

It is probably killing my old graduate advisor that other researchers are getting there before her.

Looks like Microsoft can't release Windows Sandbox soon enough.

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

I've been sayin' it.

UK chip-maker Arm, better known for developing the hardware that powers most smartphones, is working on a new generation of smart chips that embed artificial intelligence inside devices. One of these chips is being taught to smell.

One empirical finding in deep learning is that simple methods such as stochastic gradient descent (SGD) have a remarkable ability to fit training data.

Facebook AI Research is open-sourcing some of the conversational AI tech it is using to power its Portal video chat display and M suggestions on Facebook Messenger.

Uber’s open-source distributed training framework Horovod is joining the LF Deep Learning Foundation to support its work in artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning.

As deep learning moves from the lab into production use in mission critical fields from medicine to driverless cars, we must recognize its very real limitations as nothing more than a pile of software code and statistics, rather than the learning and thinking intelligences we describe them as.

Machine learning and deep learning is the hot breakthrough in computing and a well-hyped topic. How “intelligent” your systems are can be a significant factor in sales and many a mobile device is sold as “personal AI” for your convenience.

If you’ve ever needed to quickly remove the background of an image you know it can be tedious, even with access to software like Photoshop. Well, Remove.bg is a single-purpose website that uses AI to do the hard work for you.

Guys, in 100 million years we're going to be so sad.