This Week in Machine Learning 18 September 2017

This week’s top Machine Learning stories, facial recognition, chatbots, advertising, 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!

Communication

Organizational chat tool Slack teams up with ServiceNow to bring machine learning-powered workflow automation to the popular app.

Vision

Apple debuts the new facial recognition features of its forthcoming iPhone X smartphone, a technology powered by advances in machine learning.

Industry

Cable company Comcast develops a machine learning program that predicts whether a technician will be needed to resolve issues with specific customers’ homes.

Social

Facebook announces the opening of a new AI research center located in Montreal, Quebec, dedicated to new advancements in reinforcement learning.

Commerce

Marketing forecaster MarketsandMarkets predicts that the global machine learning market will be worth $8.81 billion by 2022.

Marketing

Startup Amperity develops self-training semi-supervised machine learning algorithms to generate better predictions for advertisers.