This week’s news in artificial intelligence and machine learning

Week of 2nd August 2015

From the research world

• A Computational Approach for Obstruction-Free Photography, Google
• Artificial intelligence improves fine wine price prediction, by @TristanFletcher of UCL
• Unsupervised Learning in Genome Informatics, Toronto

From the technology industry

• The Age of the Robot Worker Will Be Worse for Men, The Atlantic
• Stop Worrying About Whether Machines Are “Intelligent”, Harvard Business Review
• Don’t call it AI: put away your fears of artificial intelligence. Assistive intelligence is the future, Om Malik
• The World Economic Forum announce their 2015 Technology Pioneers cohort, including AI companies Ayasdi and Alation
• Intelligent robots don’t need to be conscious to turn against us, TechInsider
• 12 TED talks on Artificial Intelligence: Is Big Data the new AI?
• A curated list of data science blogs, thanks @algovc
• Persado uses artificial intelligence to help digital marketers write better copy, Tech Republic

From the venture capital market

• An overview of machine intelligence deals and exits for H1 2015
• Could algorithms help create a better venture capitalist?
• VSCO purchases a stealth machine learning company, Moving Sciences, to improve photo curation

Anything else catch your eye? Drop me a line on @nathanbenaich.

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