Read this week's top 5 news updates in deep learning and AI: how AI can transform businesses, NVIDIA's Bryan Catanzaro in GigaOm's new "Voices in AI" podcast, NVIDIA's Inception program for AI startups adds its 2,000th member, NVIDIA debuts the world's first deep learning workshops for the finance vertical, and Popular Mechanics provides a guide on everything AI.

1. Insights into the new computing model
DEEP LEARNING TOP 5
October 20, 2017

2. DEEP LEARNING IS THE FASTEST-GROWING
FIELD IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

3. AS AI TECHNOLOGIES CONTINUE TO IMPROVE, MORE
COMPANIES ADOPT DEEP LEARNING TO ACCELERATE
THEIR BUSINESSES…

4. TOP 5
1. Forbes: How AI can transform businesses
2. GigaOm’s “Voices in AI” podcast features AI luminaries
3. NVIDIA’s Inception Program for AI startups adds 2,000th member
4. NVIDIA teaches the world about deep learning in finance through workshops
5. What AI can accomplish right now – and the silicon powering it all

5. HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAN TRANSFORM BUSINESSES
A question originally asked on Quora, Forbes
shares the leading answer by Tony Paikeday,
product marketing director at NVIDIA. After
providing several examples of businesses
across industries who are already using AI, he
shares the quickest method to adopting AI:
“The fastest way to accelerate AI for
business is leveraging powerful and
energy-efficient GPUs. The huge
computing power they provide has
propelled us into the midst of an AI
revolution, driven forward by new
algorithms, and access to vast troves of
data.”
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Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/10/19/how-can-artificial-intelligence-transform-businesses/#198d1b0190b1
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6. GIGAOM’S “VOICES IN AI” PODCAST FEATURES AI LUMINARIES
GigaOm’s “Voices in AI” podcast debuted this
month, featuring episodes with leading
researchers and AI luminaries – including
NVIDIA’s Bryan Catanzaro. In episode 13, Bryan
focuses on AI and the future of work:
“I like to think about artificial intelligence
as making tools that can perform
intellectual work. Hopefully, those are
useful tools that can help people be more
productive in the things that they need to
do.”
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Source: https://gigaom.com/2017/10/16/voices-in-ai-episode-13-a-conversation-with-bryan-catanzaro/
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7. NVIDIA’S INCEPTION PROGRAM FOR AI STARTUPS ADDS 2,000TH MEMBER
Less than 18 months after its launch, NVIDIA’s Inception
program — which helps accelerate startups pushing the
frontiers of AI and data science — has signed up its 2,000th
member company.
“The milestone was reached with Imagry, a Haifa,
Israel-based startup using machine learning to embed
image recognition capabilities on any device.”
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Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/10/18/inception-ai-startups-2000th-member/?adbsc=social_20171018_74423307&adbid=920656282910040066&adbpl=tw&adbpr=869475601580740610
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8. NVIDIA TEACHES THE WORLD ABOUT DEEP LEARNING IN FINANCE
THROUGH WORKSHOPS
NVIDIA is offering the first courses on applying deep
learning to the finance vertical.
One of the first deep learning lab courses focuses
specifically on the domain of capital markets trading
will be taking place on 5 December at Newsweek's AI
and Data Science in Capital Markets event in New
York (places are limited).
Andy Steinbach, head of AI in financial services and
senior director at Nvidia, explained:
“There's not a lot of academic research that
shows how to take these neural network
techniques and adapt them to finance. It
became clear to us that was sorely needed.”
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Source: http://www.newsweek.com/nvidia-teaches-world-about-deep-learning-finance-689170
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9. WHAT AI CAN ACCOMPLISH RIGHT NOW – AND THE SILICON POWERING IT ALL
Because artificial intelligence has long been
misunderstood, in its November issue,
Popular Mechanics provides a guide to what
A.I. is, what it isn't, who's responsible—and
how businesses can get started. In its guide,
it names NVIDIA as “the silicon powering it
all”:
“Now, Google and Apple are building
their own GPUs, but Nvidia is far
ahead. Pick almost anywhere that's
doing important work with A.I.—
Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla.
Nvidia is the hardware running it.”
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Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a28380/everything-to-know-about-ai/?ncid=so-ele-dplglncn-24442
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10. NVIDIA ANNOUNCES AI
AUTOMOTIVE INNOVATIONS AT
GTC MUNICH
SEE THE HIGHLIGHTS
“Our vision is to enable every researcher everywhere to enable AI for
the goodness of mankind. We believe we now have the fundamental
pillars in place to invent the next era of artificial intelligence, the
era of autonomous machines.” – Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA