Source – techradar.com “Artificial Intelligence” is currently the hottest buzzword in tech. And with good reason – after decades of research and development, the last few years have seen a number of techniques that have previously been the preserve of science fiction slowly transform into science fact. Already AI techniques are a deep part of our Read More
Tag: deep learning
Source – digitaljournal.com Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook have announced the release of a neural network platform that allows deep learning frameworks to interoperate. It’s designed to make machine learning more accessible by letting developers mix and match different models. First announced back in September as a Microsoft and Facebook project, Amazon Web Services has now got onboard too. Called Open Read More
Source – iflscience.com Epilepsy can be a debilitating condition, even for those who experience seizures infrequently. Sufferers may be afraid to drive or even go out in public, even though their episodes may be as rare as less than once a month. So a device that gives warning of when attacks are likely could be transformative. Work Read More
Source – devex.com SAN FRANCISCO — A new microscope will use image recognition software and machine learning technology to identify and count malaria parasites in a blood smear. The EasyScan GO, announced at MEDICA, the medical industry’s leading trade fair, is the result of a partnership between the Global Good Fund, a Seattle-based group funded by philanthropist Bill Read More
Source – forbes.com Yoshua Bengio is one of the foremost thinkers in a field within artificial intelligence known as artifical neural networks and deep learning. Although significant progress has been made in recent years due to (among other factors) the combination of the proliferation of data, the decreasing cost of compute, and the tremendous amount of Read More
Source – magneticmag.com Video streaming has been popular for quite some time, but its growth seems to keep expanding. While it was initially popularized by platforms such as YouTube and then Facebook, today they are being joined by video-on-demand services such as Netflix, Amazon and Hulu. Recently a study suggested that as much as 70% of Read More
Source – infoq.com Microsoft and AWS have recently announced a new collaboration aimed at democratizing deep learning and artificial intelligence. Gluon is a joint effort between Microsoft Research and Amazon AI and is intended to make developing solutions using machine learning easier and quicker. Gluon is an open-source deep learning and neural network solution that is exposed through a Read More
Source – scientificamerican.com As a boy, I wanted to maximize my impact on the world, so I decided I would build a self-improving AI that could learn to become much smarter than I am. That would allow me to retire and let AIs solve all of the problems that I could not solve myself—and also colonize Read More
Source – gulfnews.com Dubai: Growing competence in the area of big data and analytics promises to transform the cybersecurity solution space, said an industry expert. Harish Chib, vice-president for Middle East and Africa at Sophos, said that while threat actors keep changing their modus operandi and tools for the attack, many modes of operation continue Read More
Source – electronicdesign.com To identify skin cancer, perceive human speech, and run other deep learning tasks, chipmakers are editing processors to work with lower precision numbers. These numbers contain fewer bits than those with higher precision, which require heavier lifting from computers. Intel’s Nervana unit plans to release a special processor before the end of the year that Read More
Source – yourstory.com There is a lack of research as to quantify how bias in AI systems are damaging individuals and societies. You have just mailed your CV to get your dream job. You are anxiously waiting for a response from the company. This could be an opportunity of your lifetime. But wait, there is a Read More
Source – marketwired.com In his panel session, Jeff McMillan, Chief Analytics & Data Officer at Morgan Stanley said, when talking about AI, “Imagine a world in which we were able to tech the intellectual capital of the firm and take hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people’s knowledge and out it into an infrastructure that can Read More
Source – news.mit.edu Just in time for Halloween, a research team from the MIT Media Lab’s Scalable Cooperation group has introduced Shelley: the world’s first artificial intelligence-human horror story collaboration. Shelley, named for English writer Mary Shelley — best known as the author of “Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus” — is a deep-learning powered artificial intelligence (AI) system Read More
Source – forbes.com In the past few years, new categories of products have emerged thanks to the extraordinary advances in machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL). These new techniques power product recommendations, computer-aided diagnosis in medical imaging and self-driving cars, just to name a few. Most ML and DL algorithms require compute profiles (hardware, software, Read More
Source – engineering.com The ocean is indeed a strange place, but Whitman might not have found it quite so confounding if he’d had access to deep learning. This technology is allowing machines to do everything from disease diagnosis to musical composition to playing video games. Now, a team of scientists and engineers at the IBM Research lab in Dublin have set deep learning Read More
Source – enterprisetech.com Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning are being used to solve some of the world’s biggest problems and is finding application in autonomous driving, marketing and advertising, health and medicine, manufacturing, multimedia and entertainment, financial services, and so much more. This is made possible by incredible advances in a wide range of technologies, from Read More
Source – cnbc.com From Amazon’s Alexa learning which restaurants its users like, to Apple’s iPhone predicting the next word in a text message, artificial intelligence (AI) is already having a significant influence on everyday life. But Northwestern economist Benjamin Jones and his colleagues are now asking what happens to economic growth if artificial intelligence starts generating original thought. Read More
Source – financialexpress.com Corporations have been relying on Learning Management Systems (LMS) to faciliate learning and address the challenges of distance, time and cost factors. LMS implemented in most organisations have been facilitating in hosting content, providing content access to the learners, conducting assessments and keeping track of their progress. The expectation of training managers in Read More
Source – thefinancialbrand.com Computer scientist and celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil says artificial intelligence will match human intelligence by 2029, and that by 2045, it will have multiplied the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion times. Predictions like this abound amid the hype surrounding AI. Real understanding however, is less common. Many enterprises are Read More
Source – quantamagazine.org eep learning” is the new buzzword in the field of artificial intelligence. As Natalie Wolchover reported in a recentQuanta Magazine article, “‘deep neural networks’ have learned to converse, drive cars, beat video games and Go champions, dream, paint pictures and help make scientific discoveries.” With such successes, one would expect deep learning to be a revolutionary new technique. Read More
Source – gigabit.net While robots and computers will probably never completely replace doctors and nurses, machine learning, deep learning and AI are transforming the healthcare industry, improving outcomes, and changing the way doctors think about providing care. In the past decade, the medical community has taken a major step in adopting electronic health systems to make Read More
Source – deccanherald.com It was 1956 when attendees at the Dartmouth conferences created the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), opening the storm gates for creativity and imagination in Hollywood, and across the scientific world. Everyone wanted to know if AI would be the key to our civilisation’s future or the key to open Pandora’s box, enabling Read More
Source – forbes.com It’s tempting to believe that artificial intelligence can do just about anything. Currently, AI and machine learning power self-driving cars, complex adtech audience optimizations and a host of intelligent agents like Alexa, Cortana and Siri. At the same time, leading AI experts, business owners and analysts are cautioning against an overly rosy view of Read More
Source – commstrader.com As the wave of digital transformation and deep learning technologies continues to wash over the world of business, we are seeing significant changes in how companies are communicating with their customers. With a recent report claiming that the AI software market will grow from $1.38 billion in 2016 to $59.75 billion by 2025, it’s clear Read More
Source – techtarget.com On a recent commute to TechTarget’s Newton, Mass., office, I passed by an Apple Maps vehicle — a white SUV topped with cameras and spinning light detection and ranging equipment that collects vast amounts of data about streets all over the world. I have a terrible sense of direction and rely on map Read More
Source – formtek.com Deep Learning is quickly becoming a key component in the tool bag for Data Scientists. Deep Learning is a kind of Machine Learning that is being applied to applications like fraud detection, prodcut demand prediction, quality assurance, and predictive and prescriptive maintenance. Alexander Linden, research vice president at Gartner, said that “deep learning is Read More
Source – informationweek.com IT professional Rich Casselberry experimented with deep learning using online tools and came away with interesting results. One of the great things about my job is that I get to work with emerging technology, while it’s still emerging. The emerging tech topic I want to dive into today is deep learning. Everyone’s talking Read More
Source – itworldcanada.com Washington D.C. – In it’s most basic form, artificial intelligence is an algorithm that is trained to learn via the data that is fed to it. But what happens what that data is full of bias? “In traditional model building, even with good data we can introduce biases by not constructing the right variables or picking Read More
Source – cio.in The idea of artificial intelligence (AI) has always seemed futuristic, but today there is no shortage of companies offering AI solutions. However, does AI offer tangible business solutions, especially in datacenters? Take for example, the case of monitoring energy usage in a datacenter. In a typical datacenter, the manager has to keep track Read More
Source – forbes.com Deep learning, a popular form of machine learning, is being applied across across a number of the latest tech products and services. But for the most part, all that computing is still taking place in the cloud. San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup Skymind is hoping to embed deep learning directly into robots. The startup is releasing a Read More