Under the Decision Tree (#2)

Welcome back for another edition of Under the Decision Tree. As usual there were quite a number of interesting stories focused on machine learning and AI. One particularly interesting topic this week was Microsoft and its efforts in cancer research. There are two conferences starting on Monday next week. Please enjoy, and as always comments or suggestions are welcome at Decision Tree

News/Articles

• Microsoft says it will ‘solve’ cancer in the next 10 years
• Microsoft wants to ‘solve’ cancer in the next 10 years using AI
• Microsoft (MSFT) Stock Higher, Developing AI Cancer Treatment Technology
• Naked Statistics: Putting the fun back into math
• How To Stop Online Harassment: Google Uses Machine Learning Tools To More Accurately Spot Abusive Content
• Automated screening for childhood communication disorders
• Stealing an AI algorithm and its underlying data is a “high-school level exercise”
• Pentagon wants an imaging sensor that can think
• Cheat Sheet: 5 Things Everyone Should Know About Machine Learning
• Scientists teach machines to hunt and kill humans — in Doom deathmatch mode *We all knew that was inevitable.
• Using Machine Learning To Make Drug Discovery Better
• Three Barriers to Machine Learning Adoption
• Google has a new plan to fight internet trolls, and it starts and ends with AI
• Cydersoft Uses Machine Learning to Battle Fraud-Bots
• Plugging Holes In Machine Learning
• Using Machine Learning To Make Drug Discovery Better
• Salesforce Einstein delivers artificial intelligence across the Salesforce platform
• DeepMind wants its healthcare AI to charge by results — but first it needs your data
• Google’s AI is getting really good at captioning photos

Podcasts

• 2016-09-22 Data Stories - Olympic Feathers with Nadieh Bremer
• 2016-09-22 TWiML Talk #5 - Joshua Bloom - Machine Learning for the Stars & Productizing AI
• 2016-09-19 Learning Machines 101 - How to Build Generative Latent Probabilistic Topic Models for Search Engine and Recommender System Applications
• 2016-09-18 Linear Digressions - Open Source Software for Data Science
• 2016-09-16 Data Skeptic - Urban Congestion

Upcoming Conferences

• September 26–27, 2016, Microsoft Data Science Summit (part of Ignite), Atlanta, GA
• September 26–27, 2016, O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference, New York, New York
• October 6-7, 2016, The Data Science Conference, Seattle, Washington
• November 2-3 2016, Machine Intelligence Summit, New York, New York
• November 16-18 2016, The 8th Asian Conference on Machine Learning, The University of Waikato, Hamilton

Blog Listings

• What You Know About Deep Learning Is A Lie
• Azure Machine Learning
• Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog

Please send any suggestions to: Decision Tree We would love to hear from you.