【M实事摘要Newsletter】20170922#1

1) Some of the Best Parts of Autonomous Vehicles Are Already Here

Scientific American
Zworykin later told interviewers that highway deaths and injuries motivated him to work on creating autonomous vehicles: “My idea was that control of ...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/some-of-the-best-parts-of-autonomous-vehicles-are-already-here/

2) BlackBerry's QNX to run autonomous car software

The Register
And perhaps they were right, because parts-maker Delphi Automotive has selected BlackBerry's QNX as the OS for its autonomous driving platform.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/21/delphi_automotive_picks_blackberry_qnx_for_autonomous_cars/

3) Finally, a Driverless Car with Some Common Sense

MIT Technology Review
iSee might seem laughably small compared to the driverless-car efforts at companies like Waymo, Uber, or Ford, but the technology it's developing ...
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608871/finally-a-driverless-car-with-some-common-sense/

4) 第一个自动无人机快递网络下月在瑞士运营

艾瑞网
物流公司Matternet已经在瑞士宣布了一个永久性的自动无人机快递网络，将在医院设施，诊所和实验 ... 将物品放入一个隔间箱中，然后装入无人驾驶飞机。
http://news.iresearch.cn/content/2017/09/270624.shtml

5) China security chief calls for greater use of AI to predict terrorism, social unrest

South China Morning Post
Meng said during a five-day inspection in the restive Xinjiang region last month that large-scale analysis of data, cloud computing and AI should be ...
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2112203/china-security-chief-calls-greater-use-ai-predict

6) Tesla teams up with AMD to develop its own AI chip for self-driving cars

Daily Mail
Earlier this year Tesla hired Andrej Karpathy as its new head of AI and Autopilot Vision. The scientist, who most recently was a research scientist at ...
CNBC: Tesla is working on its own AI chip with help from AMD - Engadget
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4904430/Tesla-working-AMD-develop-chip-self-driving-car-CNBC.html

7) AI to Help Power Grids Resist Disruptions

IEEE Spectrum
GRIP is the first project to use artificial intelligence (AI) to help power grids deal with disturbances, says Sila Kiliccote, GRIP's principal investigator and ...
https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/the-smarter-grid/ai-to-help-power-grids-resist-disruptions

8) Elaine Chao reduces self-driving car privacy to a footnote

CNNMoney
Self-driving vehicles are expected to reduce the rate of car crashes and save many of 1.25 million people killed on roads every year. They navigate ...
http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/20/technology/business/trump-dot-autonomous-vehicles/index.html

9) Self-Driving Cars Will Kill People. Who Decides Who Dies?

WIRED
Among many driverless car experts, however, talk of trolleys is très gauche. They call the trolley problem sensationalist and irrelevant. But this attitude ...
https://www.wired.com/story/self-driving-cars-will-kill-people-who-decides-who-dies/

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以下是有major提供的09月22日Major AI事实摘要

1.【中科院重庆研究院】获人脸识别“世界杯”亚军

近日，被业界公认为人脸识别“世界杯”的微软百万名人识别竞赛MS-Celeb-1M 2017结果公布。由中科院重庆绿色智能技术研究院和中科院自动化研究所组建的合作团队获得三个子竞赛项目亚军。MS-Celeb-1M的竞赛任务是准确识别百万人脸，是业界公认的人脸识别年度“世界杯”，目前世界上规模最大、水平最高的图像识别赛事之一。
http://tech.xinmin.cn/internet/2017/09/21/31298502.html

2.【腾讯音乐】携人工智能承包王力宏新专辑发布会

此次《A.I. 爱》作为王力宏第一次发行的数字专辑，他又大胆首尝音乐跨界，玩起了人工智能科技。A.I. 既是人工智能英文 Artificial Intelligence 的缩写，也是 "爱" 字的汉语拼音。腾讯音乐娱乐集团的全方位技术支持下，此次《A.I. 爱》发布会全程高能，从入场开始就开创出国内音乐发布会的先河。Cruzr人脸识别安检，机器人带位入场，由Alpha1组成的Robo Alpha机器人天团+ Alpha 2机器主持人双双助阵，发布会全程科技范儿爆棚。
http://ent.ifeng.com/a/20170920/42986431_0.shtml

3.【德国电信】推出人工智能网络切换App

德国电信近日宣布将推出一款能使手机在WiFi和蜂窝网络之间自动切换的应用程序（App）。使移动设备在WiFi和蜂窝网络间无缝切换并不是一个创新的想法。但是，此次德国电信推出的这款名为“连接”（Connect）的智能手机应用程序的创新之处在于，能够通过人工智能技术，在用户的支出和网速、延迟、安全等因素间寻求平衡，为用户规划最佳体验。
http://www.cnii.com.cn/internation/2017-09/20/content_1890036.htm

4.【雅森科技】预测诊断阿尔茨海默症，雅森科技都踏过了哪些荆棘？

创立于2006年的雅森科技，是一家致力于通过脑影像和核医学设备做病情智能分析的企业。核医学影像主要是用于癫痫、帕金森氏症、嗜睡等脑部疾病的诊断和分析。阿尔茨海默症也是脑部疾病之一，因此雅森科技涉足阿尔茨海默症诊断是很顺理成章的事情。阿尔茨海默症在患病早期是可以干预的，但检测却相对困难。雅森科技研发总监表示，诊断阿尔茨海默症的主要难点在于影像看不清，早期症状难以把握，靠单一的影像和病理不容易做到长期预测。
https://www.leiphone.com/news/201709/bT50CnsLOTPa5jVr.html

5.【Cepton】光电行业老兵创办Cepton，一年推出2款激光雷达，最远检测300米

外界最早知道激光雷达公司Cepton，或许源自今年3月 Theinformation 上的一篇文章。文章对Cepton 的描述虽是一笔带过，但却十分有信息量：Cepton 拥有多名来自 Velodyne 的工程师，颇为神秘。据可靠消息，Cepton 的激光雷达已经正式出货。这家成立于 2016 年的激光雷达公司，由4位来自斯坦福大学背景，并有丰富经验的半导体行业老兵创立。目前团队规模 30 人左右，但还在快速成长。据了解，Cepton 目前主要供货给美国硅谷、亚洲（日本、新加坡）和德国客户。今年5月，在英伟达GPU技术大会上，Cepton还推出了远程广角激光雷达。
https://www.leiphone.com/news/201709/It3C8Uqx2fwUyCPJ.html