This Week in Machine Learning, 10 July 2017

This week’s top Machine Learning stories, including music videos, stock investing, and more!
Machine Learning is one of the most exciting fields in the world. Every week we discover something new, something amazing, something revolutionary. That’s why we created This Week in Machine Learning! Each week we publish a curated list of Machine Learning stories as a resource to help you keep pace with all these exciting developments. New posts will be published here first, and previous posts are archived on the Udacity blog.
Whether you’re currently enrolled in our Machine Learning Nanodegree program, already working in the field, or just pursuing a burgeoning interest in the subject, there will always be something here to inspire you!
Arts
Rock band Muse will release a different music video for their new single “Dig Down” every day for a month, using AI to generate unique videos from a clip library.
Finance
Swiss financial services leader UBS shows off the increasing role that artificial intelligence systems can play to help traders make better decisions.
Topic
H2O.ai releases its Driverless AI tool to assist workers without in-depth knowledge of machine learning to nonetheless use the technology in their work.
Science
As machine learning starts to play an increasingly large role in scientific research, new efforts spring up around “AI neuroscience” to explain the systems’ reasoning.
Security
Researchers at the University of Granada in Spain develop a system that can identify in real-time when a gun appears on security footage and alert officers.
Technology
NEC announces that its new data processing technology can accelerate machine learning calculations by a factor of more than 50 compared to the current state of the art.

