In your demo, how are the images chosen for each image and algorithm combination? I mean how do you choose the compression level for each, to keep the comparison fair? I would hope you have a budget in KB and go as high quality as you can without going over that KB limit.
This limited scope is still progress though, toward the general AI he is saying will not come in the near future. The Alpha Zero project showed that it could be adapted for any 2-player perfect information game. This is still quite limited, but not nearly as much as a program like Stockfish is, which will basically only ever play chess.
Perhaps the next step is bringing the system further into the realm of the unknown in games, like chance and imperfect information. I don't know if Google is continuing this, but it would be a shame if it wasn't.
It's in T-Mobile's interest to do this for its own network management. The unlimited video is of much lower quality, using less bandwidth. The only agreement between T-Mobile and Netflix/YouTube is for T-Mobile to be allowed to control which quality is served over their network.
Is this surprising? Facebook has a billion users. So this article is saying that <1% of users on Facebook don't understand they are using the Internet.
The Venn diagram in this article really bothers me. Venn diagrams aren't meant to show the makeup of a whole. This should be a pie chart. The diagrams implies that there are more persistent people than inspired people, not that you need more persistence than inspiration.
The entire match, played over the past weeks, is this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJlVjicymKI&list=PLAwlxGCJB4...