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Monthly report: July 2019

This month, The Essentials Report, has curated & analyzed the content published by 198 influencers like hardmaru and Stanford NLP Group, discussing hashtags such as #AI , #NeurIPS2019 and #NLProc.
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@egrefen shared
On Jul 3, 2019
RT @GoAbiAryan: Why does most of the bad reporting always happen around games esp OpenAI and DeepMind products? Is over-promising the key reason? Or is it simply the Placebo Effect? https://t.co/754dM1B3jy https://t.co/Pc3P5nyDgZ
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Transform 2019: Hear from the movers and shakers in AI

Artificial intelligence is transforming business and offering significant strategic and practical opportunities, from natural language processing and smart speech to IoT and edge computing. While t…

@egrefen shared
On Jul 3, 2019
RT @GoAbiAryan: Why does most of the bad reporting always happen around games esp OpenAI and DeepMind products? Is over-promising the key reason? Or is it simply the Placebo Effect? https://t.co/754dM1B3jy https://t.co/Pc3P5nyDgZ
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Transform 2019: Hear from the movers and shakers in AI

Transform 2019: Hear from the movers and shakers in AI

Artificial intelligence is transforming business and offering significant strategic and practical opportunities, from natural language processing and smart speech to IoT and edge computing. ...

@rsalakhu shared
On Jul 6, 2019
RT @MSFTResearch: The Machine Learning Summer School gives a broad overview of machine learning topics to help train the next generation of ML researchers. See when MSR's @KatjaHofman will speak about RL and find out how to enter the MineRL Competition 2019 in Minecraft: https://t.co/Pqx3quPuhP
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Machine Learning Summer School 2019 MLSS – Mid Course Reception

Venue: British Library 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB Walking Map Event for MLSS attendees and invited guests only. Website: MLSS 2019

@rsalakhu shared
On Jul 6, 2019
RT @MSFTResearch: The Machine Learning Summer School gives a broad overview of machine learning topics to help train the next generation of ML researchers. See when MSR's @KatjaHofman will speak about RL and find out how to enter the MineRL Competition 2019 in Minecraft: https://t.co/Pqx3quPuhP
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Machine Learning Summer School 2019 MLSS – Mid Course Reception

Machine Learning Summer School 2019 MLSS – Mid Course Reception

Venue: British Library 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB Walking Map Event for MLSS attendees and invited guests only. Website: MLSS 2019

@weballergy shared
On Jul 13, 2019
RT @chrisdonahuey: Excited to announce our recent work on generating 8-bit music using Transformer! Our LakhNES model uses transfer learning: we pre-train on the heterogeneous Lakh MIDI dataset and fine-tune on NES music 🎶https://t.co/1XrBgzJFz3 📜https://t.co/idRGXU5Vef ⭐️https://t.co/vgHkYkGNEH https://t.co/Bi1C6kwq7G
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LakhNES: Generate 8-bit music with machine learning

Generate 8-bit chiptunes with deep learning. Contribute to chrisdonahue/LakhNES development by creating an account on GitHub.

@weballergy shared
On Jul 13, 2019
RT @chrisdonahuey: Excited to announce our recent work on generating 8-bit music using Transformer! Our LakhNES model uses transfer learning: we pre-train on the heterogeneous Lakh MIDI dataset and fine-tune on NES music 🎶https://t.co/1XrBgzJFz3 📜https://t.co/idRGXU5Vef ⭐️https://t.co/vgHkYkGNEH https://t.co/Bi1C6kwq7G
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LakhNES: Generate 8-bit music with machine learning

LakhNES: Generate 8-bit music with machine learning

Generate 8-bit chiptunes with deep learning. Contribute to chrisdonahue/LakhNES development by creating an account on GitHub.

@hardmaru shared
On Jul 21, 2019
How the Transformers broke NLP leaderboards, position article by @annargrs. While I believe in doing research under resource constraints, and generally agree with “More Data & Compute = SOTA is Not Research News” there are some good points from both sides. https://t.co/KZBLvIPCLO https://t.co/hffVRRAcsL https://t.co/Tc6rt2wFGR
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How the Transformers broke NLP leaderboards

With the huge Transformer-based models such as BERT, GPT-2, and XLNet, are we losing track of how the state-of-the-art performance is achieved?

@hardmaru shared
On Jul 21, 2019
How the Transformers broke NLP leaderboards, position article by @annargrs. While I believe in doing research under resource constraints, and generally agree with “More Data & Compute = SOTA is Not Research News” there are some good points from both sides. https://t.co/KZBLvIPCLO https://t.co/hffVRRAcsL https://t.co/Tc6rt2wFGR
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How the Transformers broke NLP leaderboards

How the Transformers broke NLP leaderboards

With the huge Transformer-based models such as BERT, GPT-2, and XLNet, are we losing track of how the state-of-the-art performance is achieved?

@thinkmariya shared
On Jul 21, 2019
RT @karpathy: A bit late to the party here, but "State of AI Report 2019" is a nice overall ambitious attempt at summarizing AI https://t.co/Jw2hNUMTA9 for "research" a bit too much RL and a bit too little vision. Interesting that vision is patented so much more than other areas (p85)
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State of AI Report 2019

A report that seeks to trigger informed conversation about the state of AI and its implication for the future.

@thinkmariya shared
On Jul 21, 2019
RT @karpathy: A bit late to the party here, but "State of AI Report 2019" is a nice overall ambitious attempt at summarizing AI https://t.co/Jw2hNUMTA9 for "research" a bit too much RL and a bit too little vision. Interesting that vision is patented so much more than other areas (p85)
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State of AI Report 2019

State of AI Report 2019

A report that seeks to trigger informed conversation about the state of AI and its implication for the future.

@Miles_Brundage shared
On Jul 26, 2019
RT @DeepMindAI: We’re excited to announce the results of our research collaboration with @Waymo, applying Population Based Training (PBT) to help make the process of training neural nets in their self-driving cars more effective and efficient. https://t.co/O78PBpdBs1 https://t.co/70kchhbcOO
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How evolutionary selection can train more capable self-driving cars

Waymo’s self-driving vehicles employ neural networks to perform many driving tasks, from detecting objects and predicting how others will behave, to planning a car's next moves. Training an individual neural net has traditionally required weeks of fine-tuning and experimentation, as well ...

@Miles_Brundage shared
On Jul 26, 2019
RT @DeepMindAI: We’re excited to announce the results of our research collaboration with @Waymo, applying Population Based Training (PBT) to help make the process of training neural nets in their self-driving cars more effective and efficient. https://t.co/O78PBpdBs1 https://t.co/70kchhbcOO
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How evolutionary selection can train more capable self-driving cars

How evolutionary selection can train more capable self-driving cars

Waymo’s self-driving vehicles employ neural networks to perform many driving tasks, from detecting objects and predicting how others will behave, to planning a car's next moves. Training an ...

@xamat shared
On Jul 16, 2019
Really interesting #NLP framework for dialogue systems by @UberEng https://t.co/WzjFbmHkgj
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Introducing the Plato Research Dialogue System: A Flexible Conversational AI Platform

The Plato Research Dialogue System enables experts and non-experts alike to quickly build, train, and deploy conversational AI agents.

@xamat shared
On Jul 16, 2019
Really interesting #NLP framework for dialogue systems by @UberEng https://t.co/WzjFbmHkgj
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Introducing the Plato Research Dialogue System: A Flexible Conversational AI Platform

Introducing the Plato Research Dialogue System: A Flexible Conversational AI Platform

The Plato Research Dialogue System enables experts and non-experts alike to quickly build, train, and deploy conversational AI agents.

@peteskomoroch shared
On Jul 10, 2019
RT @OReillyMedia: Moving into the implementation phase of #AI adoption: O'Reily's chief data scientist, @bigdata shares slides and notes and research that shows how companies are beginning to translate AI research results and developments into products and services. https://t.co/zz4gee0zJk
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AI adoption is being fueled by an improved tool ecosystem

We now are in the implementation phase for AI technologies.

@peteskomoroch shared
On Jul 10, 2019
RT @OReillyMedia: Moving into the implementation phase of #AI adoption: O'Reily's chief data scientist, @bigdata shares slides and notes and research that shows how companies are beginning to translate AI research results and developments into products and services. https://t.co/zz4gee0zJk
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AI adoption is being fueled by an improved tool ecosystem

AI adoption is being fueled by an improved tool ecosystem

We now are in the implementation phase for AI technologies.

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Researching intelligence to understand what we are and to find ways to harness it wisely. I'm a senior CIFAR fellow and an adjunct prof at UBC CS.

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French/American AI researcher at DeepMind. All opinions my own, and don't reflect DeepMind policy.

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Google Brain researcher, machine learning professor, ex-Twitter Cortex, father of 4, wine/music/comedy enthusiast

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Teaching machines to discover particles. Researcher in #MachineLearning #AI. Post-doc'ing @NYU and @CERN. Scikit-Learn contributor. Belgian.

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Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Director of AI Research at Apple

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Founded in 1991, Microsoft Research is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering.

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