Simon Smith

@simonsmith

SVP, Strategy, (). I seek scalable solutions to meaningful problems through , and .

Toronto
Joined August 2008

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  1. Jun 6

    TV reach to Millennials is disappearing. Now 71% stream content.

  2. Jun 6

    Fascinating. Users rapidly form relationships with , and it can manipulate them easily. Need ethical deployment.

  3. Jun 6

    "HoloKit" is to what Cardboard was to . (But looks a bit clunkier right now.)

  4. Jun 5

    Robot uses deep learning in to grasp objects in real world 99% of the time. Implications for .

  5. Jun 5

    Education bubble? Investing college tuition would yield greater financial gain than a degree 90% of the time.

  6. Jun 2

    More real-world evidence that won't make people lazy, but more entrepreneurial and satisfied with life.

  7. Jun 1

    Nice demo of how deep learning can be overkill for small datasets. Much predictive power in simpler alternatives.

  8. May 31

    Future won't be like the past. Life expectancy rising 15 mins/hour. Babies today will on average live >100 years.

  9. May 30

    Japan proves low unemployment alone won't raise wages; 2.8% unemployment, negative wage growth. What's going on?

  10. May 30

    General computers, software have plateaued, but GPUs, TPUs and machine learning have lots of runway.

  11. May 30

    Next for : StarCraft. Why important: messy, imperfect—if it can win here, can win in real world.

  12. May 29

    Whether he's running for president or not, Zuckerberg's public call for is welcome.

  13. May 27

    Whoa. This is huge: Using deep learning, Pix2Code codes websites by looking at them, with 77% accuracy.

  14. May 26

    Consensus: 50% chance of outperforming humans in all tasks in 45 years. Probably conservative.

  15. May 26

    read 23,000 folks songs, writes its own:

  16. May 26

    Finding provides mechanism that supports possible role of NAD+.

  17. May 25

    Would you create a digital avatar to survive you after death? making it possible.

  18. May 25

    Good summary article here on and employment by someone who automated his dad out of a job.

  19. May 24

    If vision is the killer app for (says ) , Pinterest—with all its tagged images—is poised to win big.

  20. May 24

    with "curiosity"—basically, intrinsic motivation—self-learns. Summary: . Paper: .

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