Jan 25, 2018

🤖 [CITY.AI] #appliedAI vol.8 – Berlin Edition

By City AI • Issue #38 • View online

🔥 What’s up, global AI practitioners? This week’s #appliedAI newsletter comes from the Berlin AI team!

Berlin.AI is one of the first #appliedAI communities to launch that initiated the establishment of the larger City.AI community platform. Last week it ran it’s seventh community meeting which marked year and a half of sharing lessons learned from experts applying AI such as Ralf Herbrich at Amazon, Martin Karlsson at Lateral, Rasmus Rothe at Merantix, and Reiner Kraft at Zalando, Florian Kuhlmann at Leverton and many other strong practitioners supporting City.AI’s mission - thanks!

This week, our 2018 WorldSummit.AI pre-launched - mark your calendars for October 10-11 to join us again! Stay tuned for more information and special packages.

If you want to co-host an event, educational activity or share with our global community your lessons learned applying AI, please get in touch with us at community@city.ai.

Join the conversation by following our #appliedAI Twitter feed & checking our #appliedAI publication on Medium with experts sharing their insights and expertise on putting AI into production. ⭐️

Intro Berlin AI

Berlin has a vibrant and diverse technology scene as stated again in this report, also resulting in many companies applying AI in different industries from creativity, healthcare, enterprise software, finance, e-commerce, infrastructure services, and many more. This can also be seen at the diverse Berlin.AI ambassador team with Appu Shaji, head of R&D at EyeEm, Tamara Bobic, software engineer AI & NLP at Parlamind, Minh Ha Duong an investment manager at Project-A Ventures, plus Manuel Koelman, Pirate Global and Ramzi Rizk, EyeEm as special supporters.

The AI community in Berlin is very engaging and supportive, organizing many events around different aspects of applying AI, showcasing best practices and pushing all sorts of educational activities on AI/ML such as Numer.ai’s data science competition.

Berlin and Germany as a whole is also a great place to attract AI/ML talent, as Ralf Herbrich said late last year: “A lot of the AI and machine learning expertise in the world is coming out of Europe.”

But let Berlin speak for itself :

#applied AI in Berlin

Using synthetic data for deep learning video recognition

Great article from Susanne Westphal from TwentyBN on generating synthetic data to tackle the problem of small real world datasets and proving its usability in various experiments

medium.com • Share

Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Is Coming: Here's What You Need To Know

Insightful article from LA-based Arthur Kiulian at Colab mentioning the augmented self-owned forest Terra0 out of Berlin

www.forbes.com • Share

Computer-aided facial analysis helps diagnosis

News from the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, on AI aided diagnostics

www.alphagalileo.org • Share

MoBerries Bot - The AI Powered Job Hunt Pioneer

MoBerries, one of the 100 hottest startups in Europe according to WIRED, continue their commitment to revolutionizing the antiquated recruitment business through their next-gen job discovery chatbot â'jobbot'.

www.prurgent.com • Share

Deutsche Bank partners with tech firm to offer online insurance product

Deutsche Bank is harnessing digital technology to make a success of the banking and insurance combination with Friendsurance.

global.handelsblatt.com • Share

Ocean Protocol

The Decentralized Data Exchange Protocol “Ocean Protocol” published their white paper to unlock data for AI

oceanprotocol.com • Share

understand.ai raises 2.8 million USD investment

The machine-learning startup for training and validation data in autonomous vehicles, announced a 2.8 million USD seed investment round led by LEA Partners. Further investors include Frontline Ventures, Synapse Partners and Agile Partners.

blog.understand.ai • Share

Company builder Entrepreneur First is expanding to Berlin

Entrepreneur First (EF), the London-headquartered company builder that invests in individuals “pre-team, pre-idea” to help create new technology startups, is setting up shop in Berlin, kicking off its first German program this April.

techcrunch.com • Share

Global Headlines

Cloud AutoML: Making AI accessible to every business

To make AI accessible to every business, we’re introducing Cloud AutoML, which helps businesses with limited ML expertise start building their own high-quality custom models with advanced techniques like learning2learn and transfer learning from Google.

www.blog.google • Share

Alibaba founder Jack Ma warns from AI

AI is a big threat to human beings and machines are going to replace several of us in the future, Alibaba founder and Executive Chairman Jack Ma said at Davos on Wednesday. “The AI, Big Data is a threat to human beings. The AI and robots are going to kill a lot of jobs, because in the future, these will be done by machines,” Ma added.

www.thenewsminute.com • Share

Artificial intelligence forces fundamental business shift, new report

Artificial intelligence is taking centre stage at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, as a new Infosys survey reveals its business uses.

www.cbronline.com • Share

The promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence for global development

This week, as leaders gather in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss how to “create a shared future in a fractured world,” many of the conversations will centre on the role of humans and robots in a future of automation or augmentation.

www.devex.com • Share

Upcoming City AI events

Stuttgart AI #1 - January 25 - get your tickets here

Novi Sad AI #1 - January 31 - sold out

Madrid AI #1 - February 1 - get your tickets here

Bangalore AI #4 - February 13 - get your tickets here

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