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Interview with Senior #research Scientist at the US Naval Research Laboratory: Dr. Leslie Smith
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Interview with Senior Research Scientist at the United States Naval Research Laboratory: Dr. Leslie SmithPart 23 of The series where I interview my heroes.Today, I’m super excited to be talking to Dr. Leslie Smith.Dr. Leslie SmithI’m sure Leslie needs no introduction to our friends from the fast.ai community. For our readers from outside of fast.ai:Leslie is currently working as a Senior Research Scientist at the Naval Center for Applied Research in AI, United States Naval Research Laboratory.His past research works include includes deep neural networks and reinforcement learning applied to robotics research. Prior to that, he has worked in the Maritime Surveillance Section.He has a background in Chemistry, he has done his Ph.D. in the Quantum Chemistry domain.His Research Objectives are to (...)

#machine-learning #fastai #deep-learning #artificial-intelligence

The 10 Most In-Demand IT Skills and Certifications of 2019
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Level up your career with the qualifications tech companies are looking for this yearThe job market today is very tough, and the best way to enhance your credibility is getting a few strategic certifications behind your name.Project Management Certifications:Project Management certifications are having an huge demand in the IT market.It is considered to be one of the most important task across industries. It requires special skills for delivering a successful project not as an individual but as an organisation. To Judge your expertise there are wide range of project management certifications are available in the market. They are Certified Scrum Master, Six Sigma Green Belt, Project management Professional, PRINCE2. To acquire these certifications there are some (...)

#big-data #ethical-hacking #devops #cloud-computing #artificial-intelligence

Introducing: FakeAI companies
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In recent days the network has been going crazy around a new study that found that 40% of European companies that say they use AI do not really do so. Wow.The study looked at about 2,830 companies who defined themselves as companies using artificial intelligence in some way, but when MMC’s research team went in, they discovered that there was really no evidence of using a Machine learning or anything resembling AI. Why those companies did it? Most simply said it helped them raise more money from investors.What do we learn from that? A. Not every company which adds “AI” to its name actually doing some AI work behind the scenes.B. There is a need to make a very significant distinction between companies that use AI by developing algorithms independently, and companies that use ready-made (...)

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(tutorial 3)What is seq2seq for text summarization and why
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This tutorial is the third one from a series of tutorials that would help you build an abstractive text summarizer using tensorflow , today we would discuss the main building block for the text summarization task , begining from RNN why we use it and not just a normal neural network , till finally reaching seq2seq modelAbout SeriesThis is a series of tutorials that would help you build an abstractive text summarizer using tensorflow using multiple approaches , you don’t need to download the data nor you need to run the code locally on your device , as data is found on google drive , (you can simply copy it to your google drive , learn more here) , and the code for this series is written in Jupyter notebooks to run on google colab can be found hereWe have covered so far (code for this series can (...)

#machine-learning #tech #nlp #technology #artificial-intelligence

Why AI & ML Will Shake Software Testing up in 2019
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On the overwhelming wave of tech progress, there is presumably nobody who hasn’t heard about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. As the hottest buzzwords of our age, they restore a strong faith in a more advanced future for almost every realm. And when it comes to the Software Industry, we know how many flaws could be fixed with automation in the #qa processes.AI and ML power have hit somewhat of an apex and now we have enough reasons for reckoning that they are perfect tools, but does it mean the machine will replace the human? What part will AI play in Functional Test Automation? Here is a comprehensive display.Breaking, Rebuilding, Regressing: The Challenge of Traditional Testing ApproachEvery day, QA Engineers stumble upon a plethora of difficulties and waste a lot of time (...)

#machine-learning #software-testing #software-development #artificial-intelligence

XDL Framework: Delivering powerful Performance for Large-scale Deep Learning Applications
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The Alibaba tech team open sourced its self-developed deep learning framework that goes where others have failedDeep learning AI technologies have brought remarkable breakthroughs to fields including speech recognition, computer vision, and natural language processing, with many of these developments benefiting from the prevalence of open source deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and MxNet. Nevertheless, efforts to bring deep learning to large-scale, industry-level scenarios like advertising, online recommendation, and search scenarios have largely failed due to the inadequacy of available frameworks.Whereas most open source frameworks are designed for low-dimensional, continuous data such as in images and speech, a majority of Internet applications deal with (...)

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Handtrack.js: Hand Tracking Interactions in the Browser using #tensorflow.js and 3 lines of code.
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Handtrack.js: Hand Tracking Interactions in the Browser using Tensorflow.js and 3 lines of code.Handtrack.js library allows you track a user’s hand (bounding box) from an image in any orientation, in 3 lines of code.Here’s an example interface built using Handtrack.js to track hands from webcam feed. Try the demo here.Runtime: 22 FPS. On a Macbook Pro 2018, 2.2 Ghz, Chrome browser. 13 FPS on a Macbook Pro 2014 2.2GHz.A while ago, I was really blown away by results from an experiment using TensorFlow object detection api to track hands in an image. I made the trained model and source code available, and since then it has been used to prototype some rather interesting usecases (a tool to help kids spell, extensions to predict sign language, hand ping pong, etc). However, while many (...)

#towards-data-science #javascript #artificial-intelligence #machine-learning

#julia: a Language for the Future of #cybersecurity
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Julia 1.0 was released in 2018. It is a language created to have both the high-level simplicity as python, but low-level performance as C. In this tutorial we will do some cool coding with it…Julia is a comparably new language that aimed to have the performance of C and simplicity of Python. Having the ability to perform data analysis without much trouble while shipping the code with competitive performance, Julia is expected to be a powerful tool in FinTech businesses. But I think it also have some great potentials regarding to the current trends in Cybersecurity.Julia, Image from MediumIn this article, I will explain why Julia can also be a great tool for the future of Cybersecurity. Meanwhile, I will share how I wrote a Julia script on my Mac computer to crack a cipher text encrypted (...)

#artificial-intelligence #julia-software-language #julia-language

Chars2vec: character-based language model for handling real world texts with spelling errors and…
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Chars2vec: character-based language model for handling real world texts with spelling errors and human slangThis paper describes our open source character-based language model chars2vec. This model was developed with Keras library (TensorFlow backend) and now is available for Python 2.7 and 3.0+.IntroductionCreating and using word embeddings is the mainstream approach for handling most of the #nlp tasks. Each word is matched with a numeric vector which is then used in some way if the word appears in text. Some simple models use one-hot word embeddings or initialise words with random vectors or with integer numbers. The drawback of such models is obvious – such word vectorisation methods do not represent any semantic connections between words.There are other language models, called (...)

#machine-learning #artificial-intelligence #deep-learning #neural-networks

Idiot’s Guide to Precision, Recall and Confusion Matrix
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Evaluation metrics for classification modelsBuilding Machine Learning models is fun, making sure we build the best ones is what makes a difference!Evaluating ML modelsRegression modelsRMSE is a good measure to evaluate how a machine learning model is performing.If RMSE is significantly higher in test set than training-set — There is a good chance model is overfitting.(Make sure train and test set are from same/similar distribution)What about Classification models?Guess what, evaluating a Classification model is not that simpleBut why?You must be wondering ‘Can’t we just use accuracy of the model as the holy grail metric?’Accuracy is very important, but it might not be the best metric all the time. Let’s look at why with an example -:Let’s say we are building a model which predicts if a bank (...)

#artificial-intelligence #machine-learning #ai #deep-learning #technology

Can Artificial Intelligence Replace Your Manager?
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Artificial intelligence tech is sweeping businesses both large and small, taking over responsibilities, managing data, and influencing smart decisions. More than four out of five small #business owners say their business could benefit from better tech but are not always sure of what they really need.Not all businesses are created equal and every corporation’s scalability looks different; this means varying responsibilities, computing needs, and managerial tasks. Businesses may benefit from #ai tech that focuses on project management. iCEO, a project management AI platform breaks a project down into smaller and easily trackable tasks, can hire freelancers and gig workers specialized to complete tasks, and maintains an encompassing move towards productivity. Large-scale demands of office (...)

#artificial-intelligence #infographics #technology

AI Trends to Look for in 2019 and Beyond
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AI Trends to Leverage in 2019 and BeyondPhoto: THANANIT / Adobe StockArtificial intelligence has grabbed our attention and inspired us to take notice, but many people don’t see the potential of this technology. AI has the power to change the way we view the world and complete our most basic tasks. It can make us safe and let us know when danger is around the corner, but it can do much more than that.AI can work with us and make our lives much easier if we let it. AI can now learn from its mistakes and change its behavior accordingly, and some of the most advanced AI is indistinguishable from human intelligence.Virtual AssistantsMost people with smartphones already know how useful virtual assistants can be. They can let us look up information on the web or remind us of appointments and (...)

#chatbots #ai-marketing #robots #ai-trends #artificial-intelligence

How #blockchain is Driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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The “fourth industrial revolution” was described by the World Economic Forum as a new era of #technology and industry. A trinity of disruptive technologies is driving this revolution: blockchain, the internet of things, and artificial intelligenceThe first industrial revolution began in the 18th century with water and steam power, the second with electricity, and the beginning of the third with the internet, both happened in the 20th century. The past few decades we have been living in the third industrial revolution in technological development.You might be asking, when will the fourth industrial revolution begin? The answer is it already has. The World Economic Forum (WEF) concludes we have likely already entered the transition phase into a new era of economy, politics, and society. (...)

#business #artificial-intelligence #cryptocurrency

Top #elearning Trends Shaping 2019
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The term e-learning was initially understood as PowerPoint presentations in Flash format when it only appeared back in the early 90s. Well, it was a long time ago. Right now, as technology evolved and the Internet became ubiquitous, the e-learning industry literally exploded. This realm has been widely embraced by companies as a manageable and cost-effective means of workplace education. And it advances to grow so intense that soon it will be the most requested industry.The reason for this is simple. The unique opportunity to learn at any time and in any rhythm by dint of digital devices. Long run eLearning saves costs, increases productivity and ultimately boosts revenues. Consequently, there is no wonder why this direction has substantial potential. More and more leading (...)

#virtual-reality #augmented-reality #microlearning #artificial-intelligence

Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information [PAPER SUMMARY]
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Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information [Google Colab Implementation & Paper Summary]About the Authors:This paper was published by a group of researchers from FAIR (Facebook AI research). The original authors are Piotr Bojanowski, Edouard Grave, Armand Joulin and Tomas Mikolov.The ready-to-run code for this paper is available here on Google Colab.The Basic Idea behind Word Vectors:For most of the Natural Language Processing related tasks like text classification, text summarization, text generation etc, we need to perform various computations in order to achieve maximum precision on these tasks. In order to perform these computations, we need a numerical based representation for various components of Language like words, sentences and syllables.We assign multi-dimensional (...)

#deep-learning #artificial-intelligence #nlp #machine-learning #data-science

#ai is Having a Big Impact on Web Design, and it’s Only the Beginning
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Photo: Production Perig / Adobe StockBack in 1993, the introduction of the Mosaic graphical web browser touched off a revolution in the way the public experienced and used the growing internet. Ever since, web designers the world over have worked continuously to establish and refine what solid #ux design means online. Some of the evolutions have been the result of advancing technology, such as the rise of broadband internet enabling multimedia content, or the development of the HTML5 standard. Others have come from data-driven studies of what works and what doesn’t and an iterative process to reach perfection.Any way you look at it, however, the field of web design has spent the last 25 years growing and changing our collective vision of what the internet can and should look like. Now, (...)

#ux-design #artificial-intelligence #web-design

How #ai Can Be Improved By #blockchain
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Quite some time age artificial intelligence (AI) has moved away from a fantastic fictional element and a limited gaming feature. Today AI can be found all across the board, from scientific experiments to everyday things like search engines and our favorite social media.But how can this new #technology that operates invisibly in almost every home change our lives — and more specifically, how can it make our lives better?AI market todayEngineers create AIs to allow computers to solve problems themselves. Essentially, they modify program code in response to the new difficulties they face. Computers beating world champions in chess and other games are no news, but for some time it seemed that AI development stagnated there.Until unmanned vehicles, created by corporations like Google and Uber, (...)

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9 Artificial #intelligence Trends You Should Keep An Eye On In 2019
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Artificial Intelligence has become a hot topic in tech circles. It has not only changed our lives, but it has also disrupted every industry you can think of. Despite all this, people have different perception about it. Some might consider it as a bad thing because they are told that it will take your job away from you in near future. On the other hand, #ai advocates continues to think of AI as an enabler which will reduce your burden and make your life easy by automating things.Whether you like AI or not, if you are interested in what AI has in store for the future, then you are at the right place. In this article, we will look at some of the biggest AI trends that will dominate in 2019.1) AI Enabled Chips Will Go MainstreamUnlike other technologies and software tools, AI depend heavily (...)

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Artificial Intelligence is Becoming Better than Human Expertise
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It is believed that at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, there were three distinct waves of AI technological development. The first wave was an attempt to create general intelligence with the help of the formal rules of logical thinking. The second was the development of expert systems. Now we are on the crest of the third wave, the main feature of which, computer learning, is already successful in helping artificial intelligence bypass top professional experts in the effectiveness and quality of decision making on a massive scale.Researchers have learned how to create systems that improve the algorithms themselves and then receive new data. This invention has created a new industry. The introduction of AI by 2030 will boost worldwide GDP by 14%, or approximately $15.7 trillion, (...)

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The Awesome Duo: 6 Cases of How #fintech Benefits From AI
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Photo by Alice Pasqual on UnsplashIf you’ve ever used the Internet to transfer money between accounts or apply for a bank loan or trade, you’re probably aware of how deeply rooted fintech has become in our day-to-day lives. In 2018, about 61% of Americans used digital banking services and this number is set to exceed 65% in 2022. One of the newly-emerged traits of the 4th Industrial Era, fintech is an application of fast-evolving digital technologies to improve and facilitate financial services.Companies are rapidly adopting fintech to keep abreast of the competition. The investments into this industry are also impressive: in 2018, it attracted over $16 billion investment in the UK alone, according to KMPG.On the other hand, entire countries are rapidly adopting AI technologies to compete (...)

#artificial-intelligence #chatbots #machine-learning #deep-learning

#competition in the Autonomous Vehicle Industry is Heating Up
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Over the past few years, there has been an increasing amount of news on the topic of self-driving vehicles and the inevitable future of unmanned driving. On February 15th of this year, Amazon announced a $700 million investment in Rivian, a competitor to Tesla, and $530 million in Aurora, an independent automotive startup. This race among the various technology companies with be closely watched, and it should determine the winners in this rapidly growing industry.According to research company Altimeter, the first fully self-driving cars are likely to appear in or around 2021. This is a realistic forecast based on an analysis of existing technologies and their prospects for immediate development, but not on consumer readiness in the market. Partially self-driving and fully self-driving (...)

#self-driving-cars #artificial-intelligence #autonomous-vehicles #ai

Are People Losing Control Over Robots ?
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Humans have long been fascinated with the idea of robots — human-like robots. It’s been 50 years since Isaac Asimov, an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, devised his famous Three Laws of #robotics* — a set of rules designed to ensure friendly robot behavior. Isaac Asimov imagined a futuristic world in which humanoid robots were commonplace and, famously, programmed with the Three Laws of Robotics to help — and not harm — their human counterparts.OctaviaWe’re accustomed to the idea of machines acting like people. We’re even accustomed to the idea of machines thinking in ways that remind us of humans. For example, Octavia, a humanoid robot designed to fight fires on Navy ships, has mastered an impressive range of facial expressions.SophiaSophia, a social humanoid of (...)

#investors #ai #artificial-intelligence #people-robot-control

Staying Relevant in the Age of AI: An Alibaba Guide for Algorithm Engineers
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As AI becomes adept in a growing range of computing tasks, the people working to develop it could soon find themselves out of a job.As artificial intelligence enters more and more of today’s technologies, aspiring algorithm engineers face a unique dilemma. On the one hand, they must compete to be qualified enough in AI to have development prospects; on the other, they risk becoming obsolete at the hands of the same AI models they are competing to work on.AI today has become such a popular field among developers that those returning to class reunions who have not pursued it risk becoming the butt of their classmates’ jokes. Far from being the new masters of an increasingly automated world, though, algorithm engineers are among those whose work could soon be replaced by the same development (...)

#algorithms #artificial-intelligence #human-development #software-engineering #programming

Integrating ERP With Digital Assistant To Improve Business
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What exactly ERP is and why you require it for your business? Typically dealing with Enterprise Resource Planning it can be used through such operation platforms, as SAP, Microsoft Dynamics and more. These systems attach together and outline an abundance of business processes and enable the consistent flow of data between them.In ordinary terms, it is complex for monitoring, analyzing information and making decisions based on this data. The practical application of ERP is broad. Basically, this system is good for various realms like:Financial Operations. It can facilitate and assess most accounting processes, conduct cost evaluations to in a more excellent manner to manage cash flow and forecast future growth.Human Resources. ERP can track individual productivity and automate payroll (...)

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#perceptron — Deep Learning Basics
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Perceptron — Deep Learning BasicsAn upgrade to McCulloch-Pitts Neuron.Perceptron is a fundamental unit of the neural network which takes weighted inputs, process it and capable of performing binary classifications. In this post, we will discuss the working of the Perceptron Model. This is a follow-up blog post to my previous post on McCulloch-Pitts Neuron.In 1958 Frank Rosenblatt proposed the perceptron, a more generalized computational model than the McCulloch-Pitts Neuron. The important feature in the Rosenblatt proposed perceptron was the introduction of weights for the inputs. Later in 1960s Rosenblatt’s Model was refined and perfected by Minsky and Papert. Rosenblatt’s model is called as classical perceptron and the model analyzed by Minsky and Papert is called perceptron.Disclaimer: (...)

#neurons #artificial-intelligence #deep-learning #deep-learning-basics