Microsoft (ticker: MSFT) and IPO contender Xiaomi have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on artificial intelligence in a rare technology pact of its kind between U.S. and Chinese companies.

Over the last few years Deep Learning was applied to hundreds of problems, ranging from computer vision to natural language processing. In many cases Deep Learning outperformed previous work. Deep Learning is heavily used in both academia to study intelligence and in the industry in building intelligent systems to assist humans in various tasks. The goal of this post is to share amazing applications of Deep Learning that I've seen. I hope this will excite people about the opportunities this field brings, as well as remind us that every new technology carries with it potential dangers. I believe the latter is especially true about Deep Learning, and I hope that by exposing people to all these amazing results I can encourage more discussion on the topic. There are many different applications and this list below is in no way exhaustive. So if you know of other cool applications I would appreciate it if you can mention them in the comments.

My current favorite is Spectral Clustering. It is sort of the flagship algorithm for a whole class of methods called Spectral Algorithms[1], which have been gaining increasing attention from the ML community in recent years. Why is it my favorite? Because it brings together some of the most fascinating areas of mathematics in an interesting way. I've never seen an algorithm combine so many ideas and insights from seemingly disparate fields.

Humanity is turning a corner. The signpost is marked "AI." Everyone knows what it stands for. Who knows what it means? We know what it's beginning to look like.

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With artificial intelligence technology borrowed from vehicles, Lighthouse's camera is the only one in the world to act as a personal security consultant! Why is it a smart camera that really is this, smart. It is not based on motion sensors to know what it is, rather than artificial intelligence algorithms.

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