This week over 3,000 Google employees—about 3 percent of the company—signed a letter to the company CEO Sundar Pichai demanding that Google end its contract with the Pentagon to develop AI systems for military drones.
Source: vice.com
In a recent letter by the CEO Satya Nadella to all Microsoft employees, there are two new teams formed in Microsoft, Intelligent Cloud and Intelligent Edge to shape the next phase of innovation. This announces the profound shift to weave Artificial Intelligence in to all that Microsoft does. Needless to say Microsoft following this announcement may increase the AI related hires to the company.
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We are in the process of writing a book on Mathematics for Machine Learning that motivates people to learn mathematical concepts. The book is not intended to cover advanced machine learning techniques because there are already plenty of books doing this. Instead, we aim to provide the necessary mathematical skills to read those other books.
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