Pinterest’s Visual Search
In this report, we use an Alibaba case study to show how visual search can help E-commerce customers find appropriate products in a massive catalog. We then examine how Pinterest uses the technology as an ad platform and to match brands and products to users.
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At the Stanford AI Salon
Today I went to Stanford to attend an AI Salon session hosted by the Stanford AI Lab. The topic of the salon today was "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Real World Systems". The speakers were Prof. Sergey Levine & Prof. Mykel Kochenderfer.
Read MoreThe story of Threads show us an example that the presence of human touches and deep thoughts on customers’ experience should not be ignored. We should not lazily use AI as a solution for everything. The success of commerce still rely on the deep understanding on customers.
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A big theme for Google recently is the on-device machine learning applications. Last week Google officially launched the Android Pie. Inside the new mobile system, Google integrates many AI applications and open up infrastructure for the external developers.
Read MoreAutoML 让机器可以自动化地为每个新的应用场景开发机器学习模型，这是谷歌“人工智能优先”战略的重要一步。
Read MoreBy externalizing your personal pursuits and hobbies into public-facing works, you can receive motivations, feedbacks, and even critics that are all essential to push you to relentlessly focus your resources into the area, polish your skillsets, and receive fast personal growth. As individuals, we all have limitations, weaknesses, and biases, introducing the public audition to our work help us to leverage the power and intelligence from the public to improve ourselves.
Read MoreToday I had a conversation with my team lead. I asked him what I should do to fit into the team further, given my capabilities and what resources the team will need in the long run. Instead of giving me a straight-forward answer, my lead drew two plots on the wall.
Read MoreWe rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of 30 and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste!”
Read MoreFor companies developing machine learning products, a key factor is to gain the users’ trust that the products will work for the best interest of the users and protect their privacy and security.
Read MoreDJI does a great job to revolutionize the consumer-level drone. I am excited to take a trial of the product Mavic Air, but what I am more looking forward to, is the opportunity of exploring the world with freedom and joy.
Read MoreHe wants to establish a thought framework, through years’ work on the cutting-edge technology in the field, to evaluate problems from the core and foresee the probability of coming trends. The vision can help a person to go beyond a high performing and productive programmer, but become a leader who can form a team and find the right point to make disruptions.
Read MoreAutoML and other similar services do have the potential to make AI more accessible to everyone, so that we can focus on much harder problems. We are far from automating the entire pipeline of Machine Learning development.
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