Weekly insights into the new computing modelDEEP LEARNING TOP 5Feb 24th, 2017

DEEP LEARNING IS THE FASTEST-GROWINGFIELD IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI).

IT IS DRIVING SIGNIFICANT ADVANCEMENTS ACROSS INDUSTRIES AND ENTERPRISES.

TOP 51. Equifax and SAS Leveraging AI & Deep Learning

2. How AI Is Helping Surgeons Improve Tumor Diagnosis

3. How Pinterest’s Visual Search Transformed to a Real-World Search Engine

4. AI Maps Biological Riches of the Rainforest

5. Wells Fargo Pushes Into Artificial Intelligence

HERE ARE THE “TOP FIVE” STORIES HIGHLIGHTING HOW DEEP LEARNING AND AI ARE ACCELERATING INNOVATION THIS WEEK …

EQUIFAX AND SAS LEVERAGING AI & DEEP LEARNING

“ Companies that have been analyzing data or providing tools for analysis for years are also capitalizing on recent AI advances. A case in point are Equifax and SAS: The former developing deep learning tools to improve credit scoring and the latter adding new deep learning functionality to its data mining tools and offering a deep learning API.”

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HOW AI IS HELPING SURGEONS IMPROVE TUMOR DIAGNOSIS

“Artificial intelligence could help doctors diagnose brain tumors more quickly and more accurately, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Michigan Medical School and Harvard University.

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“Our goal is to develop an algorithm that approaches the performance of a neuropathologist at diagnosis during an operation,” said Dr. Daniel Orringer, first author of the study in Nature Biomedical Engineering and an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Michigan Medicine.”

HOW PINTEREST’S VISUAL SEARCH TRANSFORMED TO A REAL-WORLD SEARCH ENGINE

“Machine learning tools and techniques had really been around for some time, but thanks to revelations in how deep learning worked and the increasing use of GPUs, the company was able to take a fresh look at computer vision and see how it would work in the context of Pinterest. “From a computer vision perspective we have a lot of images where visual search makes sense,” Zhai said.”

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AI MAPS BIOLOGICAL RICHES OF THE RAINFOREST

“Greg Asner, an ecologist at the Carnegie Institution for Science and Stanford University, uses artificial intelligence and a powerful spectral imaging method to map the rainforest in unprecedented detail. By identifying each tree species by its chemical composition, he has shown the rainforest is more diverse than anyone thought.”

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WELLS FARGO PUSHES INTO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

“Wells Fargo's AI team will work on creating technology that can help the bank provide more personalized customer service through its bankers and online, the bank said on Friday. It will be led by Steve Ellis, head of Wells Fargo's innovation group.

Well Fargo's AI focus comes as banks and other large financial institutions increase their investment in the emerging technology which seeks to train computers to perform tasks that would normally require human intelligence.”

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