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Deep Learning is the fastest-growing field in artificial intelligence (AI).

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Deep Learning is also helping people everywhere …

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Here’s the “Top Five” stories highlighting on how AI and Deep Learning are changing the world…

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GPUs Help Cut Siri’s Error Rate in Half

To make Siri great, Apple employed several artificial intelligence experts three years ago to apply deep learning to their intelligent mobile smart assistant. “The error rate has been cut by a factor of two in all the languages, more than a factor of two in many cases,” says Alex Acero (Head of Apple Speech Team). “That’s mostly due to deep learning and the way we have optimized it.”

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Explore HERE for more information on the different applications GPUs have improvedNVIDIA Developer News

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UC Berkeley Launches Center for Human-Compatible AI

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2The primary focus of the new center is to ensure that AI systems are beneficial to humans … The center will work on ways to guarantee that the most sophisticated AI systems of the future, which may be entrusted with control of critical infrastructure and may provide essential services to billions of people, will act in a manner that is aligned with human values.

Berkeley News Article

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SpaceNet Satellite Imagery Repository Launched

Tech Crunch News Article

3A consortium of companies, including DigitalGlobe, CosmiQ Works and NVIDIA, today launched SpaceNet, an open-data initiative aimed at improving image analysis tools … With an increase in the number of CubeSats, high-resolution satellites and drones of every shape and size, we have accumulated petabytes of imaging data that can be processed with analytics to solve myriad problems.

Learn HERE for more information on this satellite imagery projects

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Startup Using Deep Learning to Humanize Self Driving Cars

Fortune

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4The startup is focused on developing deep learning software—a sophisticated form of artificial intelligence—and applying it to everything the self-driving car does from recognizing objects to making decisions. Drive.ai, which was founded in April 2015, is combining deep learning software with hardware to make self-driving retrofitted kits designed for business fleets.

Explore HERE for more information about automotive technology enabling cars to see, think, and learn

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Deep Learning Unlocking Mysteries of Parkinson’s Disease

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5Researchers at The Australian National University are using deep learning and NVIDIA technologies to better understand the progression of Parkinson’s disease. Currently it is difficult to determine what type of Parkinson’s someone has or how quickly the condition will progress. The study will be conducted over the next five years at the Canberra Hospital in Australia and will involve 120 people suffering from the disease…

NVIDIA Developer News

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How can Deep Learning Impact your Business?www.nvidia.com/deep-learning