Major 50m$ grant for fighting cancer with AI! And Mila is part of this amazing project led by the Terry Fox research institute and Imagia.



Imagia and The Terry Fox Foundation are proud to partner and lead a collaborative nationwide ecosystem that will leverage #AI to accelerate accessible #precisionmedicine, a key element to revolutionize disease cure, care, and prevention.

Full news release: https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-science-economic-development/news/2019/05/minister-bains-announces-investment-to-accelerate-medical-breakthroughs-that-will-enable-truly-personalized-health-care.html
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Imagia et l’Institut de recherche Terry Fox sont fiers de s’associer dans le but de lancer un écosystème collaboratif à l’échelle nationale qui propulsera l’IA pour accélérer l’accès à la médecine de précision, un élément clef pour révolutionner le traitement et la prévention de mala


https://www.canada.ca/fr/innovation-sciences-developpement-economique/nouvelles/2019/05/le-ministre-bains-annonce-un-investissement-destine-a-accelerer-les-percees-dans-le-domaine-medical-qui-permettront-la-prestation-de-soins-de-sante.html

Paper Submissions Break NeurIPS 2019 Paper Submission System
https://medium.com/syncedreview/paper-submissions-break-neurips-2019-paper-submission-system-884a60e32a82

"Sticking the landing on inductive leaps"
Blog by Laura Ball: https://medium.com/mila-quebec/sticking-the-landing-on-inductive-leaps-10b996594fc0
#MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #DeepLearning

Transferable Multi-Domain State Generator for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems
By Chien-Sheng Wu, Andrea Madotto, Ehsan Hosseini-Asl, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher, Pascale Fung: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08743
#Computation #Language #ArtificialIntelligence

Minister Bains announces investment to accelerate medical breakthroughs that will enable truly personalized health care
“This investment promises not only to improve the future of Canadians’ health but also to do it with made-in-Canada solutions. By harnessing Canada’s strengths in health research and AI, we’re helping to usher in a new era of more personalized care that will mean better health outcomes. We’re excited to see all the new health and biosciences innovations that will result from this collaboration.” – The Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development
From: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-science-economic-development/news/2019/05/minister-bains-announces-investment-to-accelerate-medical-breakthroughs-that-will-enable-truly-personalized-health-care.html
#artificialintelligence #canada #health #innovation #research

This documentary provides some deep inside into the nature of intelligence

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oegnfAAkr_8&feature=youtu.be

ICYMI: Best Paper Award talk #ICRA2019!

Making Sense of Vision and Touch: Self-Supervised Learning of Multimodal Representations for Contact-Rich Tasks
paper: https://www.profillic.com/paper/arxiv:1810.10191

They present their results in simulation and on a real robot!

For more like this: http://www.profillic.com

Top Artificial Intelligence Books to Read in 2019


https://www.marktechpost.com/2019/05/24/top-artificial-intelligence-books-to-read-in-2019/

#junior
Good introduction article about base things
https://towardsdatascience.com/estimators-loss-functions-optimizers-core-of-ml-algorithms-d603f6b0161a

Best intro video I've seen for deep reinforcement learning, grounded in example + code.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1A3NTttvBA

Museum of Dali in Florida, used DeepFake model to create interactive video box with Dali.
"""Next step are movies.
https://youtu.be/BIDaxl4xqJ4

Free Summer ML School in Kyiv(offline)
http://ml-school.railsreactor.com

Awesome research from Google RL team. Learning dynamics from video
https://planetrl.github.io

Two powerful papers from DeepMind team
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11390
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00450

Machine learning speeds modeling of experiments aimed at capturing fusion energy on Earth. The new ML software reduces the time needed to accurately predict the behavior of energetic particles to under 150 microseconds — enabling the calculations to be done online during the experiment


https://research.princeton.edu/news/machine-learning-speeds-modeling-experiments-aimed-capturing-fusion-energy-earth

Art + Neural Networsk == Awesome
http://nips4creativity.com/

Fast AutoAugment is accepted at ICML 2019 AutoML workshop

https://github.com/KakaoBrain/fast-autoaugment

An Easy Guide to Gauge Equivariant Convolutional Networks
Blog by Michael Kissner: https://medium.com/@kayzaks/an-easy-guide-to-gauge-equivariant-convolutional-networks-9366fb600b70
#MachineLearning #DeepLearning #NeuralNetworks #ConvolutionalNetwork

https://youtu.be/bp9KBrH8H04 Sebastian Thrun Google AI TED Talks Google X Labs Stanford University Udacity

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature23474 Nature

Neural nets are the core machinery that make deep learning so powerful. This radical new design scraps the layers entirely to overcome a major shortcoming in ai .


https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612561/a-radical-new-neural-network-design-could-overcome-big-challenges-in-ai/