Train ImageNet for $40 in 18 mins, a robot that can play Where's Wally? etc

Roundup Hello, here are a few bits of AI news for the weekend. You don't always need a ton of cash to buy a wad of GPUs to train your models super quickly. You can do it pretty cheaply on cloud platforms. There's also a robot that can play Where's Waldo (Wally in the UK), and Microsoft's computer that is trying to tell if you've found a joke funny. Public code for training ImageNet super quickly: A group of engineers have managed to train ImageNet to 93 per cent accuracy using hardware rented on public cloud platforms for just $40.