AI & Software Quality Review — Friday, February 17, 2017
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Test Automation is Really Manual
Consider the main components of software test implementation: Design, Implementation, Execution, and Maintenance. Are any of these steps actually automated? The open secret is that most software test automation is manual.
About The Creators
Google announces the version 1.0 release of its open source machine learning library in “Announcing TensorFlow 1.0”
Microsoft releases a real world simulator to allow people to test and train robots and drones in “Aerial Informatics and Robotics Platform”
DistroKid has relied on a single programmer (the legendary Pud) and dozens of automated bots to become the largest music distributor in the world in “What I’ve been up to for the past 4 years”
Bitbar discusses the biggest automation changes in 2016 in “What’s Trending with Mobile Test Automation Frameworks”
Gamalon launches its machine learning platform that requires far less computation and data than other deep learning approaches in “Gamalon Invents and Commercializes Radical New Approach to AI”
About The Industry
The Guardian describes the ramifications of AI for travel companies in “Automated holidays: how AI is affecting the travel industry”
Recode reports on Ford’s big bet on Argo AI in “Ford is putting $1 billion into an AI startup, Detroit’s biggest investment yet in self-driving car tech”
The Information discusses the challenges facing customer support as it comes increasingly automated in “Bots and Humans Strain to Get Along on Messenger, Twitter”
Uh, what? “Elon Musk says humans must become cyborgs to stay relevant”
Researchers at EPFL use algorithms to discover more efficient ways for robots to move in “Six-legged robots faster than nature-inspired gait”
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