Artificial intelligence has captured the rhythm of science fiction. For example, the script of a new science fiction short is the creation of a bot. Although the software provides the order of the word choices, the source material is human. It works by algorithm and it derives its poetic power from the words of human feeling. The results are surprisingly good and even funny, in spite of its mechanized origins.

Google announced that its Home smart speaker will be available for preorder starting immediately, and will ship on Nov. 4. The company also shared more details about how Home will work, and which apps and gadgets it will be compatible with. Google says Home's design was inspired by standard household items, like wine glasses. Home can also be customized by swapping out the base portion, which will be available in multiple colors. Google Home will support Spotify, Pandora, Google Play Music, and YouTube Music as well as a few other streaming services.

During its hardware-announcing extravaganza Google announced that its voice-powered assistant/Bluetooth speaker Google Home will cost 129 and will ship on November 4th. It's the stationary piece of Google's AI plans to make the platform all about you. "The goal is to build a personal Google for each and every user," CEO Sundar Pichai said. Like the Amazon Alexa platform, the voice-activated Google Home assistant will control connected home devices. But it also acts as a Chromecast that can stream and be used to control other Google casting devices with your voice.

This paper makes a small modification to a standard CNN architecture to improve results with small datasets. This shows a good improvement on CIFAR10/100 when trained with 40% of the data (usually 2-6%). I wish the authors shared their code though. They specifically mention using keras, so it's cant be more than a few hundred lines of python.

Google has announced its new Pixel and Pixel XL phones, as expected, which will be powered by Google's new Google Assistant. Google launched the Pixel in both a standard as well as a jumbo size, the Pixel XL. But the 5-inch Pixel and 5.5-inch Pixel XL aren't noteworthy because of their hardware, but because of the software and services attached to them: not only will users be able to launch the interactive Google Assistant from their home buttons, but the phones will come with an unlimited amount of cloud storage for photos and videos at original quality --even 4K!--compliments of Google. The Pixel will cost 649 (or 27 per month) exclusively from Verizon. Google didn't provide a price for the Pixel XL.

The race for evening news viewers is getting tighter. "ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" has topped the usual leader, "NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt," in overall viewers in the first two weeks of the 2016-17 TV season. It's the first time that "ABC World News" has started the season with two straight weekly wins in overall viewers in 17 years, when Peter Jennings was anchor of the broadcast. Muir averaged 8.27 million viewers during the week of Sept. 26-30, giving him an edge over Holt (7.89 million viewers), according to Nielsen data. "CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley" finished third for the week with 6.54 million viewers.

Kanye West has postponed a pair of upcoming concerts this week after his wife, Kim Kardashian, was robbed at gunpoint in Paris. West, who had to abruptly leave a performance on Sunday as part of the Meadows Music & Arts Festival in New York when he learned of the robbery, will scrap stops on his Saint Pablo tour in Philadelphia on Tuesday and Detroit on Thursday before reconvening at Chicago's United Center on Friday. Promoter Live Nation said in a statement Monday night, "Due to family concerns, this week's Philadelphia and Detroit dates on the Saint Pablo tour have been rescheduled." Kardashian was ambushed early Monday morning local time by masked bandits dressed as policemen while in a penthouse apartment. According to the French Interior Ministry, robbers restrained an employee and gained information on Kardashian's location.

After some months reading about deep learning research paper, i feel that there are not many original works like in (bayesian learning, kernel learning). I mean there are many papers just improve something, or combine algorithms, appear a lot even if at Top-venues. What do your think about that? Sorry if i made something wrong.

I would guess not, unless you have many small one-hot layers that are correlated with each other. What does work is if you can get something similar to'word embeddings' e.g. from training a compressive autoencoder on as much unlabeled data as you can; either from each of the attributes separately or as a merged representation, depending on what data you have.

Today, CircleBack, Inc. announced the launch of 3 APIs based on their artificial intelligence-driven engine, SharedIQ, to revolutionize the state of B2B contact data productivity. Each of the APIs--Email Signature Capture, Contact Append & Company Append--offers enterprise customers the opportunity to build high-accuracy, high-value contact data flow into the hearts of their offerings and bolster the efficiency of the CRM, Marketing Automation Systems, and Account-Based Marketing tools currently on the market. Since the launch of the CircleBack app in early 2015, CircleBack, Inc. has worked to offer businesses the same access to its proprietary AI engine that it offers to over 2 million app users. The CircleBack engine uses artificial intelligence and billions of contact data points to discover, append, and update enterprise contact data. "CircleBack APIs will bring organizations much-needed control of their contact data," explains Manoj Ramnani, CircleBack, Inc. Founder and CEO.