Source – analyticsindiamag.com This is the time when a strong Computer Science background is highly-recommended for budding Machine Learning practitioners. In fact, students are closing the statistics gap with online programs as well. So is it time Indian universities start offering a major in machine learning? ML jobs are booming in India — recent example being Read More
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Source – thenextweb.com A team of scientists at the California Institute of Technology have successfully created a DNA-based neural network capable of performing pattern recognition. TLDR: The researchers demonstrated that bio-engineered strands of DNA could be used to process data by exploiting chemical reactions. Basically, they made molecular smart soup, poured it into a test tube, and Read More
Source – .c4isrnet.com As artificial intelligence advances there has been an increased push to incorporate it into defense technology. Recently, the Department of Defense ordered the creation of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, which will be a hub for AI research. The JAIC is not the first attempt to incorporate AI into the DoD, however. Project Maven, Read More
Source – opendemocracy.net Humans and machines are destined to live in an ever-closer relationship. To make it a happy marriage, we have to better address the ethical and legal implications that data science carry. Artificial intelligence, and in particular its subfields of machine learning and deep learning, may only be neutral in appearance, if at all. Read More
Source – eurekalert.org There are limits to how accurately you can measure things. Think of an X-ray image: it is likely quite blurry and something only an expert physician can interpret properly. The contrast between different tissues is rather poor but could be improved by longer exposure times, higher intensity, or by taking several images and Read More
Source – forbes.com If you believe the hype, then Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to change the world in dramatic ways soon. Nay-sayers claim it will lead to, at best, rising unemployment and civil unrest, and at worst, the eradication of humanity. Advocates, on the other hand, are telling us to look forward to a future Read More
Source – smh.com.au Australia’s top cyber spy says the world needs to think more about risks created by over-reliance on artificial intelligence so that people don’t “sleepwalk” into dependence on machines they don’t actually understand. In an rare public speech, Mike Burgess, Director-General of the Australian Signals Directorate, also said spy agencies around the world – including Read More
Source – business-standard.com In an e-commerce store, if you want to buy a black kurti, you do the search and use a few filters such as size, style and material to find the apparel of your choice. This data then gets stored by the company and is used to improve customer experience subsequently. However, offline Read More
Source – lawfareblog.com When U.S. Special Forces entered Afghanistan in 2001, Facebook didn’t exist, the iPhone had yet to be invented, and “A.I.” often referred to an NBA star. Seventeen years later, American special operations forces continue to ride horseback in rural Afghanistan, but information technology has advanced rapidly. Recent breakthroughs in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) Read More
Source – techtarget.com Enterprises are adopting data science pipelines for artificial intelligence, machine learning and plain old statistics. A data science pipeline — a sequence of actions for processing data — will help companies be more competitive in a digital, fast-moving economy. Before CIOs take this approach, however, it’s important to consider some of the Read More
Source – hcanews.com When a patient is in the intensive care unit (ICU), every second counts. And the decisions healthcare professionals make can have life-or-death consequences. Gal Salomon, MBA, is intimately involved in those decisions, working hard each day to ensure patients get the right treatment at the right time, every time. But Salomon is not Read More
Source – analyticsinsight.net Big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning are ruling the tech structure of most industries. We all know how Amazon combines a customer’s historical data and other customers’ data to power recommendations. Likewise, for Google, it’s not difficult to predict our preferences and interests. They make use of big data, analytics and machine Read More
Source – technotification.com JavaScript has a lot of haters out there. It has received a lot of criticism on grounds of its Document Object Model (DOM), its lack of modules, its way of handling methods on objects as many others. Despite all the hate, JavaScript is one of the powerful and flexible programming languages out there. You can do almost Read More
Source – businessworld.in Throughout 2017 we saw how the enterprises have started taking Artificial Intelligence(AI) seriously, but even so, they are still yet to explore how to use it in their strategy activities and campaigns. This is eventually changing in 2018 as most of the enterprises have started taking steps to make AI a must-have Read More
Source – theverge.com Experts around the world are getting increasingly worried about new AI tools that make it easier than ever to edit images and videos — especially with social media’s power to share shocking content quickly and without fact-checking. Some of those tools are being developed by Adobe, but the company is also working on an antidote Read More
Source – hindustantimes.com Facebook is turning to machine-learning technologies to amplify the impact of human fact-checkers reviewing hoax news articles, as part of the company’s efforts to combat the spread of misinformation on its platform. The social network announced Thursday it was starting to use automated systems to identify duplicates of fake news articles previously flagged by Read More
Source – abovethelaw.com What do you think of when you think of artificial intelligence? If you envision some kind of futuristic world with robots running the show, you’re thinking way too far into the future. Artificial intelligence (AI) is already here. In our everyday lives – and in our professional lives. It’s prevalent in the workflows Read More
Source – singularityhub.com Sophia’s uncanny-valley face, made of Hanson Robotics’ patented Frubber, is rapidly becoming an iconic image in the field of artificial intelligence. She has been interviewed on shows like 60 Minutes, made a Saudi citizen, and even appeared before the United Nations. Every media appearance sparks comments about how artificial intelligence is going to completely transform the Read More
Source – financialexpress.com All of us have heard about driverless cars, automated machines, bots and virtual assistants, even if we don’t fully understand what these terms mean. All of these are manifestations of self-learning algorithms, smart technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). The application of these technologies is no longer just limited Read More
Source – eurekalert.org A major challenge in current climate prediction models is how to accurately represent clouds and their atmospheric heating and moistening. This challenge is behind the wide spread in climate prediction. Yet accurate predictions of global warming in response to increased greenhouse gas concentrations are essential for policy-makers (e.g. the Paris climate agreement). In Read More
Source – standardmedia.co.ke What is this so called machine learning that has everyone in the market adopting? Machine learning has varying definitions, depending on the authors of books and articles or one’s understanding. I like to define machine learning as a branch of artificial intelligence that provides systems with the ability to learn and act like Read More
Source – forbes.com During my short stint in corporate America, I held several cross-functional roles that drew on my expertise in both business analytics and quality assurance. I usually worked alongside or in direct support of one or more project managers on various agile development projects. My primary responsibilities included acting as a liaison between senior Read More
Source – insidebigdata.com In recent years, artificial intelligence has taken us further than most of us could have dreamed, and it’s being utilized in industries that never before imagined. Doesn’t it feel like we’re getting to the point where someone wants to apply AI to every facet of our social and professional lives? So it makes Read More
Source – nation.co.ke I recently received an email from the folks over at Medium, an online publication I subscribe to. Here’s what it said: “Hello! It looks like you’re into artificial intelligence, so we rounded up a few of our favorites for you this week. Because you’re a member and an avid reader, we want to Read More
Source – qz.com Africa’s nascent artificial intelligence sector just got its biggest boost from Google which is opening its first Africa AI research center in Accra, Ghana’s capital. Though Accra has a vibrant tech industry, it would not have been the obvious location for many Africa tech watchers when compared with Nairobi or nearby Lagos where Google has already Read More
Source – economist.com DISCOVERING and harnessing fire unlocked more nutrition from food, feeding the bigger brains and bodies that are the hallmarks of modern humans. Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, thinks his company’s development of artificial intelligence trumps that. “AI is one of the most important things that humanity is working on,” he told an event Read More
Source – forbes.com Regardless of industry, it seems that nearly every business is asking the same question nowadays: How can artificial intelligence help us? Google Trends data shows that searches for “machine learning” — a common application of AI that enables machines to process and learn from data inputs — have skyrocketed over the last several years. It’s Read More
Source – itproportal.com The research paper, entitled “Unsupervised Learning of Sentence Embeddings using Compositional n-Gram Features”, will be presented by Matteo Pagliardini. Pagliardini is a senior machine learning engineer at Iprova and one of the three scientists that authored the research paper and developed the new model for unsupervised training, Sent2Vec. The other authors are Prakhar Read More
Source – financialexpress.com Artificial intelligence, or AI, a term that a few decades ago circled around in the realms of sci-fi and fantasy, is a reality today. The most evolved AI of our fantasy tales is often sentient machines scheming to take over the world. We are not there yet, and perhaps reality is far more Read More
Source – forbes.com Bottom line: Machine learning makes it possible to discover patterns in supply chain data by relying on algorithms that quickly pinpoint the most influential factors to a supply networks’ success, while constantly learning in the process. Discovering new patterns in supply chain data has the potential to revolutionize any business. Machine learning algorithms are Read More