Data Robot

Robot pets have become tools of elderly care – but they raise crucial privacy concerns

Source: scroll.in Social isolation and loneliness are concerns for many older adults, and can be triggered by the need to transition to a condo, rental accommodation, long-term care facility or retirement home. Sometimes, the only thing standing between an older adult and loneliness may be a beloved pet. This reciprocal relationship of affection and attention between Read More

Machine Learning

Machine learning puts a new spin on spin models

Source: phys.org Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used machine learning to analyze spin models, which are used in physics to study phase transitions. Previous work showed that an image/handwriting classification model could be applied to distinguish states in the simplest models. The team showed the approach is applicable to more complex models and found Read More

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

Microsoft’s AI-powered Editor can generate rewrite suggestions

Source: venturebeat.com Microsoft’s writing assistant for Microsoft 365 users is getting new AI-powered features like Rewrite Suggestions, which lets you highlight a sentence and then right-click for multiple AI-generated revision ideas, and is coming to Chrome and Edge browser extensions and Outlook.com. AI Editor can also now review text for more gender-related inclusivity and issues Read More

Deep Learning

NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) 2.0 Technology Is The Real Deal

Source: forbes.com This past week, NVIDIA announced an update to its Deep Learning Super Sampling technology, aptly dubbed DLSS 2.0. If you recall, DLSS originally a launched alongside the company’s Turning-based GeForce RTX series graphics cards in the fall of 2018, and this latest iteration improves the technology in a number of meaningful ways, that benefit Read More

Google AI

Google cancels its April Fools’ pranks this year due to the pandemic

Source: hindustantimes.com Google will not be taking part in its annual April Fool’s prank this year owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. This was an expected move especially at a time when the entire world is grappling with the virus outbreak. Google hasn’t officially announced it is cancelling this year’s April Fool’s joke. Business Insider (via Read More

Data Science

TEACHING IS THE BEST WAY TO LEARN DATA SCIENCE, SAYS THIS DATA SCIENTIST

Source: analyticsindiamag.com In the ever-increasing data science landscape, learning and retaining concepts have become difficult as one fails to dig deep and assimilate various data science approaches to its fullest. This is because data scientists do not evaluate their understanding of different concepts. However, there are numerous ways one can put their knowledge to the Read More

Human Intelligence

FUTURISTIC IMPACTS OF AI OVER BUSINESSES AND SOCIETY

Source: analyticsinsight.net In the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has made it to mainstream society from academic journals. The technology has achieved numerous milestones when it comes to digital transformation across society including businesses, education, and healthcare as well. Today people can do the tasks which were not even possible ten years back. The proportion Read More

Data Mining

«Singula», The Italian Mass Surveillance Application to Shorten the Containment Policy Timelines Through Data Science

Source: cloutnews.com The Chinese strategy of mass surveillance has, may be, achieved one of the greatest tangible results of the COVID-19 threat so far. Singapore, Israel and China, though pressing the delicate button of the data protection regulation, have implemented strategies of controlled and monitored containment through advanced digital systems, such as drones and data Read More

Microservices

All things Kubernetes: What you’re missing at KubeCon this week

Source: siliconangle.com This week, throngs of cloud-native computing fans were set to descend on Amsterdam for KubeCon, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s conference for all things Kubernetes. Alas, like so many other conferences, the CNCF decided to postpone KubeCon. But that doesn’t mean I can’t still write about the highlights of the show in this article. Read More

Google Cloud AutoML

Google Announces Cloud AI Platform Pipelines to Simplify Machine Learning Development

Source: infoq.com In a recent blog post, Google announced the beta of Cloud AI Platform Pipelines, which provides users with a way to deploy robust, repeatable machine learning pipelines along with monitoring, auditing, version tracking, and reproducibility.  With Cloud AI Pipelines, Google can help organizations adopt the practice of Machine Learning Operations, also known as MLOps – a term for Read More

Big Data

WHEN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MEETS BIG DATA

Source: analyticsinsight.net “Gone are the days of data engineers manually copying data around again and again, delivering datasets weeks after a data scientist requests it”-these are Steven Mih’s words about the revolution that artificial intelligence is bringing about, in the scary world of big data. By the time the term “big data” was coined, data had Read More

Google AI

Techsplained: How Alexa, Siri, Google listen you to provide search results

Source: financialexpress.com As IBM Watson has been able to achieve some scale, the company believes that by putting the NLP technology in commercial use it will be able to expand its capabilities much further. Ever wondered how Alexa can understand you or Google can decipher what you are saying and provide search results. Or how Siri can Read More

Machine Learning

Researchers Build Robotic Arms Combining Low Cost Tactile Sensor with Machine Learning

Source: semiconductorsindustry.com Researchers from ETH Zürich have declared that they’ve leveraged machine learning to build a low-cost tactile sensor. The sensor can measure force distribution in high resolution and with high accuracy. These features allow the robot arm to hold sensitive, fragile objects with more skill. Enabling robotic grippers to feel is essential to making them Read More

Deep Learning

Why Adversarial Examples Are Such a Dangerous Threat to Deep Learning

Source: securityintelligence.com Technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and neural networks are driven by deep learning — machine learning algorithms that get “smarter” with more data. The deepfake, a severe cybersecurity threat, wouldn’t be possible without deep learning. Deepfakes aside, we need to be aware that several machine learning models, including state-of-the-art neural networks, are vulnerable to Read More

Microservices

Get started with a hybrid microservices model

Source: searchapparchitecture.techtarget.com Microservices architecture embraces small, self-contained services built, deployed and scaled independently. However, despite the allure of microservices architecture, the monolith is still relevant. Enterprises need to find a middle ground between microservices and the monolith. A good strategy is to create a hybrid microservices architecture. What is a hybrid microservices architecture? To adopt a Read More

Human Intelligence

Bridging the gaps: joining human and artificial intelligence

Source: canada.businesschief.com The security industry is no different, as emerging technologies are leveraged to enhance operations.  Much has been made of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential, with companies of all kinds scrambling to implement it. Whilst the hype may presently outweigh the current benefits, AI in the security sector can be truly beneficial.  The Read More

Artificial Intelligence

VA Looking to Expand Usage of Artificial Intelligence Data

Source: governmentciomedia.com The Department of Veterans Affairs is closer to expanding its use of artificial intelligence and developing novel use cases. In looking back on the early stages of the VA’s newly launched artificial intelligence program, the department’s Director of AI Gil Alterovitz noted ongoing questions about how to best leverage AI data sets for Read More

Google AI

Google’s MediaPipe Machine Learning Framework Web-Enabled with WebAssembly

Source: infoq.com Google recently presented MediaPipe graphs for browsers, enabled by WebAssembly and accelerated by the XNNPack ML Inference Library. As previously demonstrated on mobile (Android, iOS), MediaPipe graphs allow developers to build and run machine-learning (ML) pipelines, to achieve complex tasks. MediaPipe graphs are visualized in a browser environment with MediaPipe Visualizer, a dedicated web application that allows developers Read More

AI-ONE

From Danda to AI: Total lockdown needs a full range of technological support to be meaningful

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com It is barely eight hours from the declaration of total national lockdown, but one short visit to the milkman in the morning gave me an interesting insight in how we, the people of world’s largest democracy will execute the lockdown. As I stood maintaining six feet distance from the counter and waited for Read More

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

C3.ai, Microsoft and others launch C3.ai DTI to combat COVID-19

Source: hindustantimes.com Microsoft and AI software provider, C3.ai have partnered with a bunch of US-based universities including to form a research consortium that is focused on innovative efforts to advance the digital transformation of business, government, and society. The consortium, which also includes educational institutes like the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Read More

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence May Be Pandemic Lifesaver… One Day

Source: gadgets.ndtv.com On December 30, researchers using artificial intelligence systems to comb through media and social platforms detected the spread of an unusual flu-like illness in Wuhan, China. It would be days before the World Health Organization released a risk assessment and a full month before the UN agency declared a global public health emergency Read More

Machine Learning

Data Scientists Use Machine Learning to Discover COVID-19 Treatments

Source: healthitanalytics.com March 25, 2020 – Using machine learning algorithms, two data scientists are working to quickly discover effective treatments for COVID-19. Andrew Satz and Brett Averso, graduates of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University, have launched a startup called EVQLV that creates algorithms capable of computationally generating, screening, and optimizing hundreds of millions of therapeutic antibodies. Using Read More

Data Science

The History and Future of Data Science

Source: aithority.com Data Science has quickly become a buzzword and popular career course in the last few years but the ideas that make up this field have been around for almost 3 centuries. According to John Foreman, VP of Product Management at MailChimp “Data Scientists are kind of like the new Renaissance folks, because Data Science is inherently multidisciplinary.”  The Read More

Big Data

Using Big Data Technology for Environmental Protection

Source: eponline.com Data has quickly become one of the most valuable resources for any organization. New tools and data-collection schemes have made it possible to gather and analyze massive sets of data—dubbed “big data.” These data sets allow us to discover patterns and relationships that we couldn’t have found with traditional approaches. One area being Read More

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

Microsoft Expands NVIDIA GPU Preview Integration with Azure

Source: winbuzzer.com Since the COVID-19 outbreak started in in January, we have seen many tech events cancelled or converted to virtual conferences. Form Mobile World Conference (MWC) being cancelled and Microsoft’s Build 2020 heading online, tech events have taken a beating. Among them was NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC), which went virtual. The conference is Read More

Reinforcement Learning

Training Driverless Cars Before They Hit the Highway

Source: technologynetworks.com A simulation system invented at MIT to train driverless cars creates a photorealistic world with infinite steering possibilities, helping the cars learn to navigate a host of worse-case scenarios before cruising down real streets. Control systems, or “controllers,” for autonomous vehicles largely rely on real-world datasets of driving trajectories from human drivers. From Read More

Microservices

Five security principles developers must follow

Source: jaxenter.com Developers and their applications are the backbone of organisations across the world. But in recent years, large scale security breaches have put data protection at the forefront for product development teams. With the likes of the GDPR now in place, security must be a priority. So who is stepping up to take responsibility for the Read More

Google AI

Google’s Latest AI Tech Helps Robots From Bumping into Humans

Source: What’s worse than bumping into your co-worker with coffee-in-hand? Maybe bumping into a roaming robot, but Google and the University of California, Berkely researchers are using artificial intelligence to help avoid this embarrassing scenario. Per a Venture Beat article, “autonomous robot navigation has the potential to enable many critical robot applications, from service robots that Read More