This Week in Machine Learning, 4 December 2017

David Joyner
Udacity Inc
Published in
2 min readDec 4, 2017

This week’s top Machine Learning stories: improving radiology, machine learning at the top of security trends, 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!

Healthcare

Nvidia partners with firms like Nuance and GE Healthcare to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to radiological scans to speed up diagnosis.

Security

Cybersecurity firm McAfee projects that adversarial machine learning will be among the greatest trends in online security in 2018.

Graphics

Adobe previews a new ‘Select Subject’ feature coming to future versions of Photoshop that will intelligently detect and select objects or people from images.

Ethics

Executives at Google urge the world to adopt fair and responsible development of artificial intelligence, especially with an eye toward gender bias and user privacy.

Photography

Google’s recently-released Pixel 2 smartphone uses principles learned from analyzing millions of images to improve new images taken with the device.

Industry

Amazon’s web services division launches a new program to help partners connect with firms and employees who have experience working on machine learning problems on AWS.

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David Joyner
Udacity Inc

Product lead at Udacity. Founder of LucyLabs. Instructor at Georgia Tech. Find me at DavidJoyner.net.