What Did You Miss at the Deep Learning Summit Last Week?

Media attending the event included BBC News, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, Financial Times, Ars Technica and more. News coverage focused on a range of topics, exploring advancements in robotics, chatbot personalities, machine vision for understanding differences in language and culture, as well as startup acquisitions and funding. We've shared just a few of the great articles from the summit below. Why Data is the New Coal - The Guardian Deep learning needs to become more efficient if it is going to move from using data to categorise images of cats to diagnosing rare illnesses. Alex Hern reports on revelations in this area from speaker Neil Lawrence, the newly appointed Senior Principal Scientist at Amazon.