Valve's Steam Labs uses machine learning to create marketing tools - The Tech Report

Machine learning is the hot buzzword of the last couple years. While some applications have been a little strange, it's likely that machine learning can make shopping a little easier by inferring a shopper's interests based on their history with the store. Valve unveiled Steam Labs to share its machine learning results with the world. Two of the Steam Labs experiments revolve around video content. The Micro Trailers experiment employs deep learning to automatically trim official game trailers into six-second video clips.