Top 5 Deep Learning and AI Stories - November 3, 2017

Pentagon official: AI and machine learning to revolutionize the US intelligence community 2. How AI could spot lung cancer sooner – and save lives 3. AI researchers can now access optimized deep learning framework containers in the cloud 4. AI4ALL improves student access to AI resources through NVIDIA partnership 5. READ BLOG 6. HOW AI COULD SPOT LUNG CANCER SOONER – AND SAVE LIVES Lung cancer is the most common cancer worldwide. More than 80 percent of people with lung cancer die within five years of being diagnosed, and half die within a year. H. Michael Park, co- founder of startup Innovation DX, is working to improve those odds. In December, his St. Louis-based medical analytics company plans to release its first product -- a GPU-accelerated AI system that detects lung cancer in its early stages from a simple chest X-ray. "Lung cancer is so deadly today because it's diagnosed so late. READ BLOG 7. AI RESEARCHERS CAN NOW INNOVATE IN MINUTES, NOT WEEKS, WITH NVIDIA GPU CLOUD NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC), a cloud-based platform that gives developers convenient access – deskside or the cloud -- to a comprehensive software suite for harnessing the transformative powers of AI. Jim McHugh, vice president and general manager of DGX Systems at NVIDIA, shared: "We're designing a cloud platform that will unleash AI developers, so they can build a smarter world.