This Week in Machine Learning, 11 December 2017

This week’s top Machine Learning stories: searching for extraterrestrial life, writing black metal music, 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!

Science

NASA announces a major discovery will be unveiled on Thursday, December 14th, noting machine learning expertise from Google played a major role in the project.

Technology

Google brings its machine learning expertise to its Sheets spreadsheet tool, focusing especially on analysis of natural language within structured datasets.

Music

Zack Zukowski and CJ Carr use artificial intelligence to learn from existing pieces of music and generate an entire new song, releasing a musician-free black metal album.

Security

Raytheon BBN Technologies applies machine learning techniques to uncovering the root cultural and societal factors that cause violent conflicts.

Arts

The Sundance Film Festival adds new experimental works of art featuring artificial intelligence and virtual reality to its 2018 lineup.

Industry

South Australia dedicates $7.1 million to machine learning research at the University of Adelaide, and the UK launches an initiative to give computing power to AI start-ups.