【M实事摘要Newsletter】20171212 #1

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1) Apple is no longer trying to keep its self-driving car project a secret

Gearbrain (blog)
The company's artificial intelligence director recently showed off how far Apple is with its autonomous car technology, able to identify cars and pedestrians — plus understand where, on the road, a vehicle can drive. Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Apple's director of AI, gave a presentation during the Neural ...
https://www.gearbrain.com/apple-car-project-titan-2516554908.html

2) How safe is 'safe enough' to put driverless cars on the nation's roadways?

Washington Post
There's a number that is all the buzz these days in the world of autonomous vehicles: 94 percent. That's the percentage of car crashes caused by driver error. The implication: Once cars become driverless, there will be hardly any crashes at all. Not so. As fully autonomous cars become a reality, there will ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/how-safe-is-safe-enough-to-put-driverless-cars-on-the-nations-roadways/2017/12/10/9a1aa348-d519-11e7-b62d-d9345ced896d_story.html?utm_term=.c4ba9c3bdb57

3) LiDAR autonomous sensor startup Ouster announces $27M Series A led by auto powerhouse Cox ...

【M一句话点评：打破Velodyne垄断，64线LiDAR定价为12000美元。该公司表示，该产品比其他竞争对手更轻，更小，功耗更低】
TechCrunch
Angus Pacala has had a lifelong passion for autonomous cars going all the way back to high school. A little more than a decade ago, he followed the launch of the DARPA Grand Challenge, a Department of Defense competition that pitted research teams against each other over who could build the best ...
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/11/lidar-autonomous-sensor-startup-ouster-announces-27m-series-a-led-by-auto-powerhouse-cox-enterprises/?ncid=mobilenavtrend

4) Ford has shed some light on its self-driving car strategy

Business Insider
US auto giant Ford offered new details on its self-driving car project in a blog post on Medium by president of global markets Jim Farley. He revealed that the automaker will be unveiling a new self-driving car design that eschews the LiDAR units on the car's rearview mirrors that help it visualize the world ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/ford-self-driving-car-strategy-2017-12

5) 刘强东：春节前将北京市内京东物流车100%换为电动车

新浪网
另外在今年9月1日，京东对外宣布其自主研发的中国首辆无人配送车已经进入道路测试阶段，10月份即将开始试运营，明年有望进行大规模商用。该设备可以按照既定路线自动导航行驶，并具备路径规划、智能避障、车道保持、智能跟随等功能。 刘强东在头条号中表示：“我们会和全球最顶级的研究机构合作，力争把 ...
http://tech.sina.com.cn/roll/2017-12-11/doc-ifypnyqi3412192.shtml

6) 电商壹周|阿里5年投100亿元搞扶贫，马云的政治智慧技巧

搜狐
其中, 京东无人车智能产业基地项目投资100亿元落户长沙经开区。京东方面表示，京东无人车智能产业基地项目将分两步实施：首先是在长沙科技新城建设“京东长沙军民融合研究院”及“京东无人车(长沙)产品开发中心”，用于智能无人车研发、测试、运营维护，人员培训以及数据中心管理等；之后将规划用地500亩 ...
http://www.sohu.com/a/209765526_482004

7) No, Google's AI Program Can't Build Your Genome Sequence

Forbes
After reading the announcement last week from Google's genomics group, I realized that's probably a good thing. A Wired article last Friday reported that "Google is giving away AI that can build your genome sequence." Sounds impressive–two high-tech innovations (AI and genomes) in the same title!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2017/12/11/no-googles-new-ai-cant-build-your-genome-sequence/#567011d95774

8) These Stunning AI Tools Are About to Change the Art World

Slate Magazine
Chris Rodley doesn't consider himself an artist or a computer scientist. But when he tweeted an image he created using a machine-learning algorithm that crossed a page of dinosaur illustrations with a page of flower prints, many assumed he was both. The cleverly merged image, which looks like a ...
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/12/a_i_neural_photo_and_image_style_transfer_will_change_the_art_world.html

9) Microsoft Announces $50 Million for Its “AI for Earth” Project

MIT Technology Review
There are plenty of stories about artificial intelligence ending the world as we know it (see 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Terminator, certain Elon Musk tweets). There are fewer about how AI could save the world, but believers are out there. At a gathering Monday for the two-year anniversary of the Paris ...
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/609745/microsoft-announces-50-million-for-its-ai-for-earth-project/

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