Using Deep Learning to Discover Drugs, Classify Pokémon, Save Zebras, Play Flappy Bird & More – Transmission Newsletter

First impressions are notoriously subjective (and flawed), but now machines are being trained to make similar snap judgments based on human-generated data. AI-published books may not be too far away! Researchers at Kyushu University in Japan have trained a deep neural network to study book covers and determine their category. On a hunt for interesting and high-quality datasets to use for machine learning, I stumbled upon these 20 weird and wonderful sets. Neat! Check out this open source deep convolutional neural network that is trained on transformed audio signals to recognize "ahem" sounds.