07.16.17 Recap

How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation

DARPA Wants Brain Implants That Record From 1 Million Neurons

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain, Tokens, ICOs: Why should anyone care?

TinyDesk:  Chance the Rapper - including bc it's 🔥 🔥 🔥 

Tesla’s First Mass-Market Car, the Model 3, Hits Production This Week

All New Volvo Models Will Be Electric Or Hybrid Starting In 2019
Also, Volvo admits its self-driving cars are confused by kangaroos

Daimler, BAIC to invest $735 million in electric vehicles in China

Open source isn’t just altruistic - it’s smart business. TensorFlow has been a win-win for Google and AI overall

Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way

Ask the AI experts: What are the applications of AI?

Technical Debt in Machine Learning 
ICYMI - mentioned in the post, but worth highlighting Gooe great paper from NIPS '15 on the topic from Google. Also

The Brain as Computer: Bad at Math, Good at Everything Else

I can grade you, or I can teach you, but I can’t do both

Microsoft Workplace Analytics

Microsoft creates an AI research lab to challenge Google and DeepMind

Alphabet’s AI arm DeepMind opens research lab in Canada, first outside the U.K.

Emergence of Locomotion Behaviours in Rich Environments -- aka DeepMind’s AI is teaching itself parkour, and the results are adorable

NVIDIA, Baidu Announce Partnership to Accelerate AI

Sam Altman on UBI with Fortune

Andrew Ng announces Deeplearning.ai, his new venture after leaving Baidu

No surprises: The key to the founder/VC relationship and avoiding the “Oh shit” board meeting