1. Applied AI Digest Review
Top news and breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence
2016

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4. Applied AI Digest #1
2016
Google’s DeepMind Beats a
Top Player at the Game of Go
Zucks to create
AI-Powered Jarvis
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
IBM Watson Head
on the Future of AI
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5. Applied AI Digest #2
Artificial Intelligence Deals on the RiseCould AI Solve the World’s Biggest Problems?
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
What happens when our computers
get smarter than we are?
Artificial Intelligence
in 2020?
Harvard is building an AI
Engine as fast as the Brain
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6. Applied AI Digest #3
Is Big Data Still a Thing?
The world’s largest DB
of structured knowledge
U.S. Officials: AI Now
Qualifies as a Car's Driver
MIT introduced a new
computer chip
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
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7. Applied AI Digest #4
Google Opens Its Cloud Vision
API To All Developers.
Intelligent Parking Chair
by Nissan
Andy Rubin Unleashed
Android on the World.
Now Watch Him do the
Same with AI
What’s Next in Computing? Robots Are Coming, But Not For Your Job
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
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8. Applied AI Digest #5
Inside the AI Revolution:
A Special Report, Pt. 1
This Brain-Reading Tool Can
Teach You A New Skill In No Time
RBS is testing a bot that could
solve your banking problems
That robots will ‘steal’ millions
of jobs seems clear. But just
look at the fresh employment
opportunities they’ll bring
Stephen Hawking on
Artificial Intelligence
14 Early-Stage
Virtual Assistant Startups
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
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9. Applied AI Digest #6
Artificial Intelligence and
Language
HP Enterprise Bets on ‘Machine
Learning’ Cloud Service
Hilton and IBM Pilot “Connie,”
The World’s First Watson-
Enabled Hotel Concierge.
The Future of Artificial
Intelligence in Education
Inside the AI Revolution: A
Special Report, Pt. 2
Here's how much smarter
Google search results have
become using AI
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
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10. Applied AI Digest #7
Artificial Intelligence can
change the world: Zuckerberg
AI is going to change
everything
GM buying driverless car
technology for $1B
South Korea trumpets $860M
AI fund after AlphaGo 'shock'
Artificial intelligence, virtual
assistants and giant screens
How real businesses are
using machine learning
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
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11. Applied AI Digest #8
Silicon Valley Looks to AI
for the Next Big Thing
Google launches new
machine learning platform
MIT’s Sociable Robot ‘Tega’
Helps Preschoolers Learn a
Second Language
Futurist Ray Kurzweil on What
You Don't Know About A.I.
Amazon’s Secret Robot Event
The Race Is On to Control AI,
and Tech’s Future
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
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13. Applied AI Digest #9
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Salesforce Acquires Artificial-
Intelligence Startup MetaMind
AI For Better Or Worse?
Turning artificial intelligence
into business value, today
Toyota, Microsoft Team Up on
Connected-Car Technologies
AI is already making inroads
into journalism but could it
win a Pulitzer?
Google Is Sharing Its Powerful
AI With Everyone in Its Cloud
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14. Applied AI Digest #10
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
How many Neural Nets does it
take to catch the big fish in
Machine Learning?
IBM Shows Off Machines
That Can Dance
Bots, the next frontier
The Race For AI: Google, Facebook, Amazon,
Apple In A Rush To Grab AI Startups
Hitachi’s new customer service robot can
tell when you need help shopping in stores
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15. Applied AI Digest #11
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Facebook Hopes Chatbots
Can Solve App Overload
AI for Everyday Use:
Coming Soon.
What Happens When AI Can
Write Better Than We Can?
Be kind to Artificial Intelligence. This map shows the countries
with the most robots
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16. Applied AI Digest #12
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Can AI fix education? We asked Bill Gates How Chevron Plans to Use UAVs and
AI to Deliver Big Profits
Trust in AI: why humans and
machines are better together
Goldman Sachs leads a $30 million
round for Persado’s AI-based,
automated copywriting service
What Chatbots
Reveal About Our
Own Shortcomings.
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17. Applied AI Digest #13
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Three ways Artificial Intelligence is
helping to save the world
Machine intelligence and
humanity's moral dilemma
requires answers
The Humans Hiding Behind
the Chatbots
Inside OpenAI, Elon Musk’s Wild
Plan to Set AI Free
Google CEO Cites Shift From a
Mobile World to an AI World
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18. Applied AI Digest #14
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Google's AI engine is reading
2,865 romance novels to be more
conversational
Infosys joins AI gold rush Siri-creator shows off first
public demo of Viv
The next AI is no AI AI Invades Fast Food eBay snaps up AI-powered
Expertmaker to clean up its
messy listings
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19. Applied AI Digest #15
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Siri-Killer Viv Faces an
Uphill Battle
Google's AI has written some
amazingly mournful poetry
Dell says its new AI-powered
antivirus can block 99% of malware
Computer science class fails to notice their
TA was actually an AI chatbot
Japan is Using AI To Catch Criminals On The Run
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20. Applied AI Digest #16
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Finding The Meaning Of AI At
Google I/O
No Industry Can Afford
to Ignore AI
The Future Belongs To
Leaders Who Get AI
Building Emotional Machines China unveils three-year program for AI growth
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25. Applied AI Digest #17
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
The Future of Humanity’s Food Supply Is in the
Hands of AI
Why is Elon Musk so afraid of AI? Can Google's virtual assistant
find a home in enterprise?
Apple is reportedly building a Siri
speaker to rival Amazon’s Echo
Manufacturer, Foxconn, Lays Off 60,000 Workers
and Replaces Them With Robots
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26. Applied AI Digest #18
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
AI is expected to explode into a
$70 billion industry by 2020
The real challenge is ensuring
humans stay in control
Facebook spares humans by
fighting offensive photos with AI
Google DeepMind Researchers
Develop AI Kill Switch
Here’s how Facebook
Messenger will change banking
Big Auto’s Rush For Partnerships,
Investments, And M&A In One
Graphic
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27. Applied AI Digest #19
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Apple’s announcement on AI is
a big shift for the company
Man Vs Machine: At Wipro, AI
Is About To Do The Job Of
3000 Engineers
Supply chains and AI: ask
Jeff Bezos
How brands are using AI to
enhance customer experience
AI has written the screenplay
for this sci-fi short film
called Sunspring
MIT Researchers Taught An
Algorithm to Generate Sound
Based on Silent Videos
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28. Applied AI Digest #20
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Android's Andy Rubin: Future of
Tech Is Quantum Computing and AI
The Conversational Economy
Part 1: What’s Causing the Bot
Craze?
Amazon is just beginning to
use robots in its warehouses…
The race to monetize AI is on When AI Meets Reality This Is The Future Of AI
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29. Applied AI Digest #21
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Chatbots And Millennials: How
Smart Brands Should Be Using AI
Intel, Google, GE, And Samsung
Among Most Active Corporate
Investors In AI Startups
18 AI researchers reveal the
most impressive thing they’ve
ever seen
Self-driving trucks: what’s
the future for America’s 3.5
million truckers?
Toyota to build AI-based driving
systems in five years
Intel Outside as Other Companies
Prosper from AI Chips
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30. Applied AI Digest #22
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Robots’ debut in aerospace
production lines create new
human jobs
London company uses AI to
brew the perfect beer
Google believes its superior
AI will be the key to its future
We need to talk about AI and
access to publicly funded data-
sets
AI Could Help Catch
Alzheimer’s Early
AI Is Setting Up the Internet for
a Huge Clash With Europe
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32. Applied AI Digest #23
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
AI Is The Only Thing That
Matters: Look Around You
How AI will transform your
business
What AI Can Tell Us About The
Future Of Business?
Microsoft’s UK CMO on AI and his
visionary inspiration
AI reveals undiscovered bat carriers of Ebola
and other filoviruses
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33. Applied AI Digest #24
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Tim Cook on How AI Is Enriching Apple AI expert says that Russia is on the verge of a
major breakthrough in AI.
OmniEarth uses Watson to combat California
drought The next big thing in Supply Chain Management
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34. Applied AI Digest #25
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
The Rise Of Bots: A
Timeline Of Major VC-
Backed Bot Startups
Will AI Make All Business
Decisions?
Breaking The Barrier Of
Humans And Machines
41 Startups Bringing AI To
Fintech
What’s the Difference Between
AI, Machine Learning, and
Deep Learning?
16 Open Source Deep
Learning Models Running
as Microservices
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35. Applied AI Digest #26
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
What A Neural Network Thinks
About Your Neighborhood And
Why It Matters
Corporate AI: Can Investors Control a “Perfect
Profit Machine”?
M&A Wars: Google, Apple Are the Top Acquirers
of AI Startups
Four ways that AI can benefit
universities
Apple is buying a Seattle-area
startup to get smarter about AI
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36. Applied AI Digest #27
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
The head of Google’s Brain
team is worried about the lack
of diversity in AI
Tim Cook Talks AI,
iPhone’s Future
A.I. and chatbots will help you win
friends and influence people
Dan O’Brien: The hopes and fears around AI
The art of forecasting in the
age of AI
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37. Applied AI Digest #28
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
AI Is Here to Help You Write
Emails People Will Actually Read
AI, Machine Learning,
And The FDA
Why AI development is going to
get even faster. (Yes, really!)
Why chatbots are so disruptive The rise of AI in 6 charts What should the self-driving
car do?
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38. Applied AI Digest #29
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
The AI revolution is coming
fast. But without a revolution
in trust, it will fail
CIA to Spy on Earth Using AI
How front-end development
can improve AI
How AI and ML work at Apple?
UC Berkeley launches Center
for Human-Compatible AI
The first autonomous,
entirely soft robot
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39. Applied AI Digest #30
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
How Tech Giants Are Devising Real Ethics for AI 3 Magical Ways AI Can Save Your Time
Intel’s Latest Acquisition Is All
About Giving Sight to Machines
How AI Will Transform The
Delivery Of Legal Services
When AI judges a beauty
contest, white people win
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40. Applied AI Digest #31
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
From Virtual Nurses To Drug Discovery: 90+ AI
Startups In Healthcare
Walmart is patenting ‘mini-robot’
technology that could have
implications for workers
One Hundred Year Study on
AI (AI100)
Nvidia Chases Bigger (And Better) Chunk Of
Burgeoning AI Market
Academics say the technology is
letting policemen detect crime
that hasn’t taken place yet
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41. Applied AI Digest #32
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Pittsburgh, your self-driving
Uber is arriving now
Introducing Salesforce
Einstein – AI for Everyone
Angel.ai, a company that
builds chat bots, acqui-hired
by Amazon
Infographic: The bot platform
ecosystem
Need Some AI? Yeah, There’s
a Marketplace for That
Google acquires natural language
understanding startup Api.ai
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42. Applied AI Digest #33
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Investing in AI offers more
rewards than risks
The Next Wave of Deep
Learning Applications
10 Myths About Machine Learning
AI Software Is Booming. But Why Now?
Air freights, drones, and the Internet of Things:
what is the future of the supply chain?
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44. Applied AI Digest #34
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
How to Steal an AI
Google is making its
assistant 'conversational' in
two new ways
AI: Growth, Opportunities
and Threats
Microsoft expands AI efforts with
creation of new Research Group
Industry leaders establish
partnership on AI best pratices
AI: Disruption era begins
2016
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45. Applied AI Digest #35
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Why Cortana's new boss is
obsessed with AI
Why deep learning is
suddenly changing your life
Samsung to Acquire Viv
How AI is changing online
retail forever
Musk’s OpenAI is Using Reddit to
Teach An AI How to Speak MIT Open course on AI
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46. Applied AI Digest #36
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Barack Obama, neural nets, self-
driving cars, and the future of
the world
Google’s ‘DeepMind’ AI can
now learn without human input
Apple has hired a big brain in
AI to make Siri less dumb
Why AI will finally unlock IoT AI is transforming ERP solutions
The Administration’s
Report on the Future of AI
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47. Applied AI Digest #37
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
What Do People — Not
Techies, Not Companies —
Think About AI?
Cloud Security, AI, IoT Make List
Of Hot Technologies For 2017
Microsoft researchers reach
human parity in conversational
speech recognition
As AI Evolves, So Does Its Criminal Potential
This Online Education Firm Is Offering an AI
Training Program
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48. Applied AI Digest #38
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Forrester Predicts Investment In
AI Will Grow 300% in 2017
When Will Robots Take All
the Jobs?
Nightmare Machine. Horror
imagery generated by AI
Today’s AI Does Not Justify
Basic Income
3 challenges for AI in medicine
45 AI Startups Targeting
Retail In One Infographic
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50. Applied AI Digest #39
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
New Research Center to
Explore Ethics of AI
How AI Will Redefine Management
Starcraft II will soon be used
as a training ground for AI
The New World Of Artificially
Intelligent Security
Uber is rolling out a big redesign
powered by machine learning
How AI (AI) Creates A Better
Customer Service Experience
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51. Applied AI Digest #40
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
At Sundar Pichai's Google, AI Is
Everything—And Everywhere
AI, human brain to merge in
2030s, says futurist Kurzweil
The Value of AI
Advancing our ambition to
democratize AI
What AI Can and Can’t Do
Right Now
Over 10 Million Self-Driving Cars
to Be on the Road by 2020
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52. Applied AI Digest #41
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Microsoft chief Satya Nadella
reveals government's AI plans
Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Are
Remaking Themselves Around AI
AI Has Beaten Humans at
Lip-reading
What Neural Networks, AI, and
Machine Learning Actually Do
Siri vs. Alexa vs. Cortana vs. Google
Assistant: Battle of the AI Systems
The current state of
machine intelligence 2.0
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53. Applied AI Digest #42
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
The Simple Economics of
Machine Intelligence
Can Microsoft get back in the
game with AI?
This scary AI has learned how to
pick out criminals by their faces
Relax, AI isn’t coming for
your job
Understanding the 4 Types of AI Retailers look to AI to
bag sales
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54. Applied AI Digest #43
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Facebook developing AI to flag
offensive live videos
Uber launches AI lab with
new acquisition
What Is The Difference Between
AI And Machine Learning?
Humanity and AI will be
inseparable
The Brain Tech to Merge Humans
and AI Is Already Being Developed
A Whole New Universe: OpenAI
Just Opened a School for AI
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55. Applied AI Digest #44
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Apple is finally going to start
publishing its AI research
How Pinterest Uses Machine
Learning To Keep Its Users Pinned
5 unexpected sources of bias
in AI
Mall of America gets an
IBM Watson-powered bot
for holiday shopping
Microsoft Starts New Venture
Fund With Investment in
Bengio's Element AI
AI Can Predict How Scenes
Will Play Out
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56. Applied AI Digest #45
2016 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Job Automation Predictions from
2016 Silicon Valley Survey
The Great A.I. Awakening
Mark Zuckerberg out-
robots his AI robot in
saccharine holiday video
AI Is More Artificial
Than Intelligent
Automation Is Coming for
SEO Content Farmers
IBM, Quanta Top Ideas at Morgan
Stanley, but VR, A.I. Is Next
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