Artificial Intelligence #29

Hey, in this issue: deep learning's most important ideas, an AI that programs itself, theoretical insight into why deep learning is successful and, still, why it will not give us level 5 self-driving cars, a model that transforms selfies into a traditional portrait, and more.

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• Deep learning's most important ideas - a brief historical review
• DeepMind’s newest AI programs itself to make all the right decisions
• LinkedIn open-sources DeText, a framework for natural language processing tasks
• Recent advances give theoretical insight into why deep learning networks are successful
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• Why deep learning won’t give us level 5 self-driving cars
• Unselfie: translating selfies to neutral-pose portraits in the wild (paper)

• Hugging Face models’ performance visualization (step-by-step, colab)
• CNN Explainer, an interactive visualization tool to learn, interpret and visualize CNN networks (demo, video, code, paper)
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• Google’s latest experiment is Keen, an automated, machine-learning-based version of Pinterest (blog, website)
• How to derive convolution from first principles

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