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In the News
A Wave Of Billion-Dollar Computer Vision Startups Is Coming
Computer vision is the most technologically mature field in modern artificial intelligence. This is about to translate into enormous commercial value creation. The ability to automate human sight is opening up massive opportunities for value creation across every sector of the economy.
Research
Ensuring statistical models command public confidence
The four UK qualification regulators – Ofqual (England), Scottish Qualifications Authority (Scotland), Qualifications Wales (Wales) and the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations & Assessment (Northern Ireland) – were directed by their respective governments to oversee the development of an...
Machine Learning with ML.NET – Random Forest
We continue down that in the previous article, we explored another such algorithm Decision Trees. In this one, we go even further and learn about Ensemble learning and Random Forest.
How screen scraping and TinyML can turn any dial into an API
This image shows a traditional water meter that’s been converted into a web API, using a cheap ESP32 camera and machine learning to understand the dials and numbers. If you’ve ever worked with legacy software systems, this may all seem a bit familiar.
Applied use cases
Emerging Behaviour of our Driving Intelligence with End to End Deep Learning
Wayve is building the most adaptable driver, a Driving Intelligence that can learn to understand the world, yet adapt and scale intelligently to different driving domains: cities, vehicle platforms or mobility use-cases.
Google’s deep learning finds a critical path in AI chips
In Apollo, by contrast, rather than a floor plan, the program is performing what Yazdanbakhsh and colleagues call "architecture exploration." Given that the task is to design an AI chip, the architectures that the Apollo program is exploring are architectures suited to running neural networks.
Unity flexes its robotic muscles in Object Pose Estimation demo
The new demo is called Object Pose Estimation and shows off Unity’s AI and machine learning (ML) capabilities. Layering our technologies together shows how we are crossing a line, and we are starting to deal with something that is truly AI, and in this case, demonstrating the efficiencies possible...
Market News
How AI and Machine Learning are enhancing the learning curve for students
AI and Machine Learning applications have over the past few years made the process of learning a fun and interactive experience. The advanced with regard to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is also helping the students when it comes to content.
Understanding Deep Learning (Still) Requires Rethinking Generalization
Specifically, our experiments establish that state-of-the-art convolutional networks for image classification trained with stochastic gradient methods easily fit a random labeling of the training data. This situation poses a conceptual challenge to statistical learning theory as traditional measures...
Ethics
‘This is bigger than just Timnit’: How Google tried to silence a critic and ignited a movement
“Then they try to silence your scientific voice.” In the aftermath, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai pledged an investigation; the results were not publicly released, but a leaked email recently revealed that the company plans to change its research publishing process, tie executive compensation to...
What is an “algorithm”? It depends whom you ask
While there’s no universally accepted definition, a common one comes from a 1971 textbook written by computer scientist Harold Stone, who states: “An algorithm is a set of rules that precisely define a sequence of operations.”
AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship
The organizers of the AI ethics research conference came to this decision a little over a week after Google fired Ethical AI lead Margaret Mitchell and three months after the firing of Ethical AI co-lead Timnit Gebru.
Robotics
Scientists build robot that 'hears' through the ear of a dead locust
A team of researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel has taken a different path and created a bio-hybrid robot that "hears" through the ear of a dead locust, a type of grasshopper. Enlarge Image The team published a study on the robot this year in the journal Sensors.
Researchers create a swimming robot that can 'heal' itself
We've previously seen jelly-like polymers used to create robotic hands that can repair themselves after a violent infliction. The latest breakthrough involves tiny microbots that can magnetically "heal" themselves on the fly after breaking apart, without help from humans.
Rapid robotics for operator safety: what a bottle picker can do
Shobhit Yadav, mechatronics engineer smart industries and robotics at TNO Automatically adapting to the situation Dennis van der Plas, senior global lead packaging lines at Heineken, says, “We are becoming a high-tech company and attracting more and more technically trained staff.
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