07.02.17 Recap
Elon Musk thinks he can make getting to Mars cheaper than going to college
And the Boring Company is in talks with LA
...annnd has apparently started to bore
Lots happening in 🚗 the past few weeks...
Texas explicitly allows driverless car tests
Alphabet Inks Deal for Avis to Manage Self-Driving Car Fleet
Apple Is Working With Hertz to Manage Its Self-Driving Car Fleet
Tesla hires deep learning expert Andrej Karpathy to lead Autopilot vision
Tesla’s New AI Guru Could Help Its Cars Teach Themselves
Ford’s on-demand bus service Chariot expands to Seattle
Waymo’s self-driving van hits the desert to see if it can stand the heat
And plenty of other happenings + thoughts...
Hard Questions: How We Counter Terrorism from Facebook
The Human Rights of Women Entrepreneurs
The Internet Doesn’t Have to Be Bad for Democracy
Mark Zuckerberg explains why he just changed Facebook's mission
MIT CSAIL research offers a fully automated way to peer inside neural nets
Ex Machina’s Scientific Advisor – Murray Shanahan
Bezos's Grocery 'Waterloo' Is Now His Biggest Opportunity
In a few years, no investors are going to be looking for AI startups
Forget AlphaGo—DeepMind Has a More Interesting Step Toward General AI
Google advances AI with ‘one model to learn them all
Accenture, Microsoft team up on blockchain-based digital ID network
The Man Who Helped Turn Toronto Into a High-Tech Hotbed
A leading Silicon Valley engineer explains why every tech worker needs a humanities education
You can now sign up for early access to Google’s wacky Area 120 app experiments
How HBO’s Silicon Valley built “Not Hotdog” with mobile TensorFlow, Keras & React Native 🌭
Why Are Corporations So Bad At Working With Startups?
Your Apple Pay purchases can help preserve national parks
Awesome to see Apple step up and help preserve our national treasures 💪