Artificial Intelligence: Week #34 | 2020

Weekly updates on AI & Machine Learning. Interesting news, tools, papers, podcasts, and events.

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Artificial Intelligence News:

Learn ways machine learning can help with drug safety

How AI and Machine Learning Can Revolutionize Drug Safety Monitoring - RTInsights

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) plans to spend $21 Million on AI research around fusion

DOE to Provide $21M for AI and Machine Learning Research on Fusion Energy

DARPA hosts a virtual flight combat competition for AI

Watch a computer clobber a human pilot in a simulated fighter jet duel

Developer Tools & Education:

Facebook’s new developer tools focus on environment navigation for AI in the complex physical world

Facebook releases tools to help AI navigate complex environments

Andrej Karpathy (Tesla’s Director of AI) creates a mini version of GPT

karpathy/minGPT

Fast AI and USF Data Institute release a new course on Practical Data Ethics

Practical Data Ethics

Learn about Transformers and Google Trax with this awesome intro notebook by Jay Alammar

jalammar/jalammar.github.io

Interesting Podcast(s):

Catch up with Wilka Carvalho on his research around Relational, Object-Model Learning Agent for Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning (ROMA)

Relational, Object-Centric Agents for Completing Simulated... - #402

Model Explainability is incredibly important for many industries. Listen to a group of experts discuss the current state of the field.

TWIML Discussion Series: Model Explainability Forum - #401

Notable Papers:

Generative chemistry: drug discovery with deep learning generative models

Real-Time Cardiac Cine MRI with Residual Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network

Localizing Anomalies from Weakly-Labeled Videos

Automatic lung segmentation in routine imaging is primarily a data diversity problem, not a…

Upcoming Online AI & Data Events:

Aug 22 (Monthly) | Kubeflow

[Full Day Workshop] Kubeflow + BERT + GPU + TensorFlow + Keras + SageMaker

Aug 25 | The Future of AI Strategy & Innovations in Insurance

Seattle Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning (Seattle, WA)

Aug 27 | 5G and IoT

5G and IoT with Jim Brisimitzis, General Partner, 5G Open Innovation Labs