The document discusses the top 5 deep learning stories from August 3, 2018. It summarizes each story in 1-2 paragraphs. Story 1 is about Google making NVIDIA GPUs available on their cloud to accelerate AI projects. Story 2 describes NetApp's new AI data platform called Ontap AI that helps organizations manage their AI data. Story 3 discusses how machine learning is being used in healthcare to better monitor patients. Story 4 talks about how the Swiss Federal Railway is using deep learning with cameras and sensors to improve passenger safety. Story 5 is about an AI system that taught itself to solve a Rubik's Cube in 44 hours without human help.

1. Insights into the new computing model
DEEP LEARNING TOP 5
August 3, 2018

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 DEEP LEARNING STORIES
1. Transforming a generation of AI developers
2. An AI data platform for enterprises
3. How smart machines are changing medicine
4. Improving passenger safety with deep learning
5. Self-taught AI learns to solve a Rubik's Cube

5. TRANSFORMING A GENERATION OF AI DEVELOPERS
At Google Cloud Next, Google announced it is making
NVIDIA Tesla P4 GPUs available as a cloud service, enabling
more businesses to get started with AI projects quickly.
“The strength of the P4 GPU is it is ideally suited to AI
inferencing when real time and efficiency is required…and
is designed to increase the performance of servers running
deep learning workloads.”
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Source: https://www.cio.com/article/3293424/artificial-intelligence/more-artificial-intelligence-options-coming-to-google-cloud.html?linkId=100000003127153
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6. AN AI DATA PLATFORM FOR ENTERPRISES
Not all cloud storage providers have the
management tools required to collate, process, and
transfer AI model data quickly and efficiently. To
solve this, NetApp introduced Ontap AI.
“Powered by Nvidia’s DGX supercomputers and
NetApp’s AFF A800 cloud-connected flash storage,
it’s designed to help organizations achieve ‘edge to
core to cloud’ control over their data by delivering
unprecedented access and performance.”
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Source: https://venturebeat.com/2018/08/01/netapp-and-nvidia-announce-ontap-ai-an-ai-data-platform-for-enterprise/
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7. HOW SMART MACHINES ARE CHANGING MEDICINE
In order to better monitor patients health in real-time,
“smart” machines enable clinicians by merging data from
devices into a readily interpretable stream.
“Teams across the country are harnessing artificial
intelligence to create new tools that enhance patient
monitoring in ICUs and reduce information overload for
clinicians.”
3
Source: https://innovationblog.partners.org/industry/bringing-smart-machines-to-medicine
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8. IMPROVING PASSENGER SAFETY WITH DEEP LEARNING
To improve and insure the safety of passengers
and infrastructure, the Swiss Federal Railway
(SBB) has equipped multiple high-resolution
cameras and sensors to obtain images while
traveling at speeds up to 160 kmh.
“SBB partnered with CSEM (Swiss Research and
Development Center) to address this challenge
by initiating the ‘Railcheck’ project, which
aims to use deep learning technologies.”
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Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nvidia/2018/08/02/how-swiss-federal-railway-is-improving-passenger-safety-with-the-power-of-deep-learning/#12d1298950e3
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9. SELF-TAUGHT AI LEARNS TO SOLVE A RUBIK’S CUBE
DeepCube is an artificially intelligent system that’s as good
at playing the Rubik’s Cube as the best human master
solvers. Incredibly, the system learned to dominate the
classic 3D puzzle in just 44 hours without any human
intervention.
“On the surface, the Rubik’s Cube may seem simple, but it
offers a staggering number of possibilities. A 3x3x3 cube
features a total ‘state space’ of 43,252,003,274,489,856,000
combinations…with no outside help, and with the only input
being changes to the cube itself, the system learns to
evaluate the strength of its moves.”
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Source: https://gizmodo.com/self-taught-ai-masters-rubik-s-cube-in-just-44-hours-1826918072
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