Read this week's top 5 news updates in deep learning and AI: Andrew Ng on AI as the "new electricity"; IBM's breakthrough record for image recognition; how to make shopping carts smarter (and shoppers wealthier); how Comcast uses deep learning to improve customer service and recommended content; and a new "I am AI" Instagram series highlighting the luminaries behind AI research.

1. Insights into the new computing model
DEEP LEARNING TOP 5
August 11th, 2017

2. DEEP LEARNING IS THE FASTEST-GROWING
FIELD IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

3. AS AI TECHNOLOGIES CONTINUE TO IMPROVE,
MORE COMPANIES ADOPT DEEP LEARNING TO
ACCELERATE THEIR BUSINESSES…

4. TOP 5
1. IBM beats AI image recognition record using distributed deep learning
2. AI is the new electricity, says deep learning pioneer Andrew Ng
3. #IamAI: Meet the researchers behind the AI curtain
4. AI makes online shopping carts smarter – and shoppers wealthier
5. Comcast uses AI to improve its recommended content feature and customer service

5. IBM BREAKS IMAGE RECOGNITION RECORD
Scaling to 256 NVIDIA GPUs with its new
distributed deep learning (DLL) library,
IBM reports that it has bested previous
records set by Google and Facebook on
two well-known image recognition
workloads.
IBM's deep learning approach also
allowed it to train a ResNet-101 neural
network model in just seven hours by
using the power of dozens of servers,
using hundreds of NVIDIA GPUs.
Microsoft took 10 days to train the same
model.
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Source: http://www.itpro.co.uk/strategy/28186/ai-news-ibm-breaks-record-for-ai-image-recognition-accuracy;
https://www.hpcwire.com/2017/08/08/ibm-raises-bar-distributed-deep-learning/
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6. ANDREW NG: “AI IS THE NEW ELECTRICITY”
Purple shirts, haircuts, and cats. How are these three
all related? According to Andrew Ng, they all played a
part in AI’s growing presence in our lives.
Ng, who describes AI as the new electricity on our AI
podcast, pointed out how, when electricity was
invented, it changed industries from agriculture to
healthcare. And now, AI is doing the same.
“One thing I look forward to is I think your listeners
are listening to this on what may be an electric-
powered phone or electric-powered radio, but we
don’t even use that term anymore. I actually look
forward to the day where our self-driving car is no
longer an ‘AI-powered self-driving car’ but is just a
‘car.’”
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Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/07/26/ai-podcast-andrew-ng-new-electricity/
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7. #IAMAI SERIES: THE RESEARCHERS BEHIND THE CURTAIN
Get a glimpse into the lives of the world’s greatest
inventors and innovators — the luminaries behind AI
who are applying it to everything from curing
cancer to building smart cities.
In our #IamAI series, you’ll meet the faces behind
the AI and hear their stories on what motivates and
inspires them to do their work.
Follow #IamAI and @NVIDIA AI on Instagram.
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Source: https://www.instagram.com/nvidiaai/
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8. AI MAKES ONLINE SHOPPING ARTS SMARTER
New Jersey startup Jet.com uses AI to optimize the cost of
entire shopping carts, rather than simply tallying up the
prices of the individual items inside.
With the online shopping market forecast to double in
2024 from an estimated $390 billion in 2016, according to
Forrester E-Commerce, there’s billions of dollars at stake.
Acquired by mega-retailer Walmart last year, Jet reduces
costs for baskets of items by assessing a variety of
merchants, distributors and shipping costs. The bigger the
shopping cart, the larger the savings it can generate.
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Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/08/08/online-shopping/
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9. COMCAST IMPROVES CONTENT SEARCH AND CUSTOMER SERVICE
Comcast is using GPUs and deep learning-powered natural
language processing, image recognition, video analysis and other
technologies to describe and understand what’s happening on
the screen.
Comcast’s deep learning software recommends shows and
movies and provides personalized menus based on what you’ve
watched before. This feature, and the voice remote, are part of
Comcast’s interactive Xfinity X1 platform.
Comcast is working on AI-powered tools that would
automatically understand callers’ queries and route them to the
right person.
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Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/08/07/binge-watching-how-ai-could-help-you-watch-even-more-tv/
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