Amazon says it is opening a new food and convenience store that doesn't have a check-out line. Instead, the company envisions customers at the Amazon Go store picking up whatever they want off the shelves – then simply walking out with it. The items are automatically billed to their Amazon accounts. Details about how the technology actually works are sparse. "We used computer vision, deep learning algorithms and sensor fusion much like you'd find in self-driving cars," a narrator says in a video from Amazon.

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang earlier this year delivered our NVIDIA DGX-1 AI supercomputer in a box to the University of California, Berkeley's Berkeley AI Research Lab (BAIR). BAIR's over two dozen faculty and more than 100 graduate students are at the cutting edge of multi-modal deep learning, human-compatible AI and connecting AI with other scientific disciplines and the humanities. "I'm delighted to deliver one of the first ones to you," Jen-Hsun told a group of researchers at BAIR celebrating the arrival of their DGX-1. The team at BAIR are working on a dazzling array of AI problems across a huge array of fields -- and they're eager to experiment with as many different approaches as possible. To do that, they need speed, explains Pieter Abbeel, an associate professor at UC Berkeley's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Apple Inc. will allow its artificial intelligence teams to publish research papers for the first time, marking a significant change in strategy that could help accelerate the iPhone maker's advances in deep learning. When Apple introduced its Siri virtual assistant in 2011, the company appeared to have a head start over many of its nearest competitors. But it has lost ground since then to the likes of Alphabet Inc.'s Google Assistant and Amazon.com Researchers say among the reasons Apple has failed to keep pace is its unwillingness to allow its AI engineers to publish scientific papers, stymieing its ability to feed off wider advances in the field. So you can sleep an extra five minutes.

One of CES' major trends over the last few years has been the connected car -- the concept of adding Internet connectivity and networking to our vehicles. Stealing the spotlight this year was Nvidia, which launched the Drive PX 2 -- an in-car artificial intelligence system. PX 2 is designed for automakers exploring autonomous driving and includes 360-degree situational awareness, deep learning and the processing power of 150 MacBook Pros. Deep learning -- an advanced type of artificial intelligence (AI) -- is driving significant change for autonomous vehicles and for the automotive and transportation industries in general, according to a new report from advisory firm KPMG. The study predicts that by 2030 a new mobility services segment linked to products and services related to autonomy, mobility, and connectivity will be worth more than $1 trillion worldwide.

Artificial intelligence in social networks is primarily used as an efficient way to sort through large clusters of user-generated information. The term often used to describe the functions of this kind of AI is "deep learning," which essentially means a high-level knowledge formed by analyzing and establishing patterns in large data sets (ELI5 reddit threads are a great primer into artificial intelligence topics). For social media, this means AI can help with anything from personalized product suggestions based on previous engagements, to image and voice recognition, to deep sentiment analysis. Almost every major player in the social media arena has invested internal resources, or established third-party collaborations with teams focused on artificial intelligence. Don't worry, we're still quite far from SkyNet, but that last good product recommendation you got online may have been the work of an AI technology.

In DeepMind Lab, AI agents observe the world as an image, in pixels, rendered from their own first-person perspective. They also may receive a reward (or punishment) signal. Two big entities making advances in artificial intelligence are opening up their AI training platforms, with the aim of getting closer to developing general intelligence. DeepMind, Alphabet's artificial intelligence division, announced Monday that it's open-sourcing DeepMind Lab, its 3D game-like platform for agent-based AI research. In a blog post, the DeepMind team argued that developing general intelligence -- the ability to adapt to changing circumstances and operate in an environment without pre-programming -- should be easier in a 3D world observed from a first-person viewpoint (like DeepMind Lab).

Deep Learning can be overwhelming when new to the subject. Here are some cheats and tips to get you through it. In this article we will go over common concepts found in Deep Learning to help get started on this amazing subject. The gradient is the partial derivative of a function that takes in multiple vectors and outputs a single value (i.e. The gradient tells us which direction to go on the graph to increase our output if we increase our variable input.

This week we are celebrating Computer Science Education Week around the globe. In this "age of acceleration," in which advances in technology and the globalization of business are transforming entire industries and society itself, it's more critical than ever for everyone to be digitally literate, especially our kids. This is particularly true for women and girls who, while representing roughly 50 percent of the world's population, account for less than 20 percent of computer science graduates in 34 OECD countries, according to this report. This has far-reaching societal and economic consequences. By 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that there will be 1.4 million computing jobs but just 400,000 computer science students with the skills to apply for those jobs. Computer science is a top-paying college degree and computer programming jobs are growing at a rate that is double the national average, according to a National Association of Colleges and Employers report.

Google DeepMind, a subsidiary of Alphabet that's focused on making fundamental progress toward general artificial intelligence, is releasing a new 3-D virtual world today, making it available for other researchers to experiment with and modify however they wish. The new platform, called DeepMind Lab, resembles a blockish 3-D first-person shooter computer game. Inside the world, an AI agent takes the form of a floating orb that can perceive its surroundings, move around, and perform simple actions. Agents can be trained to perform various tasks through a form of machine learning that involves receiving positive rewards. Simple example tasks that will come bundled with the platform include navigating a maze, collecting fruit, and traversing narrow passages without falling off.

Thanks to the supercomputer, SMU's food AI project has successfully recognised the 100 most popular dishes in Singapore. The Singapore Management University (SMU) will be using the NVIDIA DGX1 deep learning supercomputer to conduct AI research for Singapore's Smart Nation project. The research will take place at the SMU Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC), which is supported and funded by Singapore's National Research Foundation (NRF). Providing performance that is equivalent to 250 conventional servers, the supercomputer will reduce the time it takes for researchers to train sophisticated deep neural networks. The solution is also built on NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs, which utilise the latest Pascal GPU architecture.