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Five Industries Reaping The Benefits Of Artificial Intelligence
Here are some of the top examples of different enterprises implementing successful AI projects. Hopefully these use cases inspire you to find ways to implement this tool in your own industry.
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Here’s how deep learning helps computers detect objects
Convolutional neural networks One of the key components of most deep learning–based computer vision applications is the convolutional neural network (CNN). The most basic task for convolutional neural networks is image classification, in which the network takes an image as input and returns a list...
Top 10 AI and Machine Learning Books for Business Leaders
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Business: A No-Nonsense Guide to Data-Driven Technologies- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Business is a quick read that delivers a simple and concise introduction for both business people and managers.
Applied use cases
Your AI pair programmer
Code confidently in unfamiliar territory. Whether you’re working in a new language or framework, or just learning to code, GitHub Copilot can help you find your way. The GitHub Copilot editor extension sends your comments and code to the GitHub Copilot service, which then uses OpenAI...
How AI has helped in the transportation of vaccine delivery for COVID-19
For example, AI techniques can help with continuous estimation, optimising the routing of delivery traffic to avoid congestion and other disruptions. As AI continues to advance the transportation sector, it has become apparent that it is essential for developing effective vaccine delivery.
Alondra Nelson Wants to Make Science and Tech More Just
Alondra Nelson Wants to Make Science and Tech More Just The deputy director of the White House science office plans to tackle algorithmic bias and start candid conversations about the past. After a year in which science became politicized amid a pandemic and a presidential campaign, in January...
Ethics
A beginner’s guide to AI: Policy
In addition to the article you’re currently reading, the guide contains articles on (in order published) neural networks, computer vision, natural language processing, algorithms, artificial general intelligence, the difference between video game AI and real AI, the difference between human and...
The Journey To Fairness In AI -- Q&A With New York Times Best Selling Author Abigail Hing Wen
She served as senior director of emerging AI tech at Intel and speaks on AI, venture capital, diversity, and leadership in international venues. The Partnership serves an essential independent role in several areas, including AI Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability, where I served as co-chair...
WHO outlines principles for ethics in health AI
The six principles its experts came up with are: protecting autonomy; promoting human safety and well-being; ensuring transparency; fostering accountability; ensuring equity; and promoting tools that are responsive and sustainable.
Robotics
EXCLUSIVE SoftBank shrinks robotics business, stops Pepper production- sources
TOKYO, June 28 (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) is slashing jobs at its global robotics business and has stopped producing its Pepper robot, according to sources and documents reviewed by Reuters, as the conglomerate downgrades its industry ambitions.
Volkswagen teams up with OhmniLabs on custom robot to provide matchday access for young soccer fans
Volkswagen strives to provide access and inclusion by getting everyone “in the game” CHAMP, a VW custom telepresence robot, will provide once-in-a-lifetime opportunities as a U.S. Soccer virtual player honoree to kids who aren’t able to attend matches in person CHAMP will make its debut on July 1st...
Construction robotics firm Dusty raises $16.5M
“We just released our third-generation hardware platform, which was designed from the ground up by our team in Mountain View to be purpose-built for producing accurate and speedy layout on construction sites,” says Lau.
Research
PyKale Preprint: Knowledge-Aware Machine Learning from Multiple Sources in Python [P][R]
A 10-page preprint is on arXiv to describe the green machine learning design principles behind our pipeline-based API below as well as features and examples in our PyKale library for multimodal learning and transfer learning with deep learning and dimensionality reduction on graphs, images, texts,...
Progress on Causal Influence Diagrams
The random variable S₁ represents the state at time 1, A₁ represents the agent’s action, S₂ the state at time 2, and R₂ the agent’s reward. In short, a CID specifies: Agent decisions Agent objectives Causal relationships in the environment Agent information constraints
Microsoft and OpenAI have a new A.I. tool that will give coding suggestions to software developers
From left, GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and future GitHub CEO Nat Friedman at GitHub headquarters in San Francisco. The system, called GitHub Copilot, draws on source code uploaded to code-sharing service GitHub, which Microsoft acquired in 2018, as well as other...
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