Read this week's top 5 news updates in deep learning and AI: new open-source data science and machine learning acceleration platform, transforming healthcare in the U.K. through AI-enabled radiology and pathology, bringing real-time DNA sequencing to the palm of your hand, Agrobot aims to revolutionize agriculture industry, and integrating AI into customer facing applications.

1. Insights into the new computing model
DEEP LEARNING TOP 5
October 12, 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. New open-source data science and machine learning acceleration platform.
2. Transforming healthcare in the U.K. through AI-enabled radiology and pathology.
3. Bringing real-time DNA sequencing to the palm of your hand.
4. Agrobot aims to revolutionize the agriculture industry.
5. Integrating AI into customer facing applications.

5. NEW OPEN-SOURCE DATA SCIENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING
ACCELERATION PLATFORM
At GTC Europe 2018, NVIDIA introduced RAPIDS, an open-
source data analytics and machine learning platform for
executing end-to-end data science training pipelines on
GPUs. For the first time, RAPIDS gives data scientists a
robust platform for GPU-accelerated data science:
analytics, machine learning and, soon, data visualization.
“RAPIDS is all about making it easier for large businesses
to use the power of GPUs to quickly analyze massive
amounts of data and then use that to build machine
learning models.”
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Source: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/10/nvidia-launches-rapids-to-help-bring-gpu-acceleration-to-data-analytics/
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6. TRANSFORMING HEALTHCARE IN THE U.K. THROUGH
AI-ENABLED RADIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY
King’s College London is Europe's first clinical
partner to adopt the NVIDIA DGX-2 and NVIDIA Clara
healthcare platform. The partnership will bring AI
to four major London hospitals to enable
groundbreaking research and elevated patient care.
“This is a huge opportunity to transform patient
outcomes by applying the extraordinary capabilities
of AI to ultimately make diagnoses earlier and more
accurately than in the past.”
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Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/10/10/kings-college-london-nvidia-clara/
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7. BRINGING REAL-TIME DNA SEQUENCING TO
THE PALM OF YOUR HAND
Oxford Nanopore launched MinIT, a powerful analysis
device using NVIDIA AGX System, that enables real-time
portable DNA sequencing analysis. MinIT is helping
farmers fight crop disease, biologists understand the sea,
and more.
“As data streams faster from our sequencing devices,
GPU technology like NVIDIA’s becomes central to
preserving the real-time properties of our DNA
sequencing technology.”
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Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/10/10/oxford-nanopore-dna-sequencer-nvidia-agx/
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8. AGROBOT AIMS TO REVOLUTIONIZE THE
AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY
Debuted at GTC Europe, NVIDIA’s latest I am AI
docuseries episode focuses on Argobot: an AI-
powered autonomous harvester that’s poised to
revolutionize the agriculture industry.
“Agrobot's system uses semantic segmentation,
which relies on a convolutional neural network to
classify each pixel of the incoming image as either
belonging to the strawberry class or not.”
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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXQg_M7_6_E
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9. INTEGRATING AI INTO CUSTOMER FACING APPLICATIONS
Nitzan Mekel, managing vice president of machine
learning at Capital One, discussed on the AI Podcast
how the banking giant is integrating AI and machine
learning into customer-facing applications such as
fraud-monitoring and more.
“What really turned me on to the opportunity, and what gets
me excited everyday now, is the fact that we use AI and
machine learning pretty much in every facet of our
business.”
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Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/ai-podcast/
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