Last year, I asked 16 questions about self-driving cars. My questions were mostly about the cars themselves:
Here is a random walk through some of the 2017 year-end summaries of what’s happening with AI, machine learning and deep learning.
Denny Britz writes a regular newsletter on AI, Deep Learning, and NLP called WildML and this is how he summed up the year:
Steven Sinofsky, Sonal Chokshi, and I recorded an a16z podcast back in March 2016 when AlphaGo got its first burst of publicity after defeating Korean professional Go player Lee See-dol. It was a spectacular technical achievement, and we wondered whether this…
How many founders have been in the position of hiring a senior executive — having gone through all the interviews, reference checks, board approvals, and negotiations — only to have doubts creep in all too soon after they start? Your hire doesn’t seem to be…
In the summer of 2016, we published a primer on AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning that unexpectedly went viral.
Since then, we’ve met with hundreds of people working at Fortune 500/ Global 2000 companies, startups, and government agencies…
When things get small — like atoms and electrons small — physics gets weird. Schrödinger’s Cat weird. Quantum superposition weird. Quantum entanglement weird. Atoms, electrons and photos obey quantum mechanical laws so spooky (Einstein’s word for it) and complex, we can’t even…
The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing lately about where we are in the financial cycle. Financial markets get a lot of attention. They tend to fluctuate unpredictably and sometimes…
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