In the News
Big Tech & Their Favourite Deep Learning Techniques
Every week, the top AI labs globally — Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, etc. — release tons of new research work, tools, datasets, models, libraries and frameworks in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
Interestingly, they all seem to have picked a particular school of thought in deep learning. With time, this pattern is becoming more and more clear.
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In The News
DeepMind claims its AI weather forecasting model beats conventional models
In a paper published in the journal Nature, meteorologists gave an AI model for predicting short-term weather events top rank in terms of accuracy and usefulness in 88% of cases. It marks the first time professional forecasters have expressed a preference for a machine learning-based model over conventional methods, claims DeepMind, which developed the model — paving the way to new weather forecasting approaches that leverage AI.
How Deep Learning Works Inside the neural networks that power today's AI
Today's boom in AI is centered around a technique called deep learning, which is powered by artificial neural networks. Here's a graphical explanation of how these neural networks are structured and trained.
Applied use cases
Amazon’s Astro robot is straight out of The Jetsons
Powered by Amazon Alexa and a bunch of artificial intelligence (AI) technology while patrolling about on a set of wheels, the Astro robot can handle numerous tasks, from providing a view of inside the home when you’re out to delivering a message to Mom. Amazon's Astro relies on AI, sensors, computer...
Paravision boosts its computer vision and facial recognition capabilities
US-based Paravision has announced updates to boost its computer vision and facial recognition capabilities across mobile, on-premise, edge, and cloud deployments. “From cloud to edge, Paravision’s goal is to help our partners develop and deploy transformative solutions around face recognition and...
How AI video surveillance impacts the way businesses approach security
Security cameras are a great way to keep an eye on commercial spaces without being on-site, especially after-hours. While security is a 24/7 business, most organizations can’t afford to monitor their systems at all hours of the day and night. Hiring a third-party provider to monitor is expensive, and even with eyes on screens, human error still results in missed reports, slow response, and increased insurance and liability costs.
Discover The Essentials State of AI Report Q2
After thoroughly analysing industry trends and our engagement data, we’ve gathered valuable insights on the topic of Artificial Intelligence. Stay tuned for the best articles from leading industry experts as we bring you our first-ever State of AI Report for Q2 from our sister newsletter, AI Essentials.
Ethics
3 lessons from IBM on designing responsible, ethical AI
A new report, co-authored by the World Economic Forum and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, details these efforts. Initially, the group researched and published a paper titled Learning to trust AI systems, in which the company makes a set of commitments to advance its...
Engendering AI: A Gender and Ethics Perspective on Artificial Intelligence in Africa Series Launch by Pollicy
Description Dear Colleagues, All over the world today, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasing across several professions and industries and it is aiding product and service delivery. The absence of women in the developing field of AI in Africa, which is a direct result of the failure...
The Ethical Norms for the New Generation Artificial Intelligence, China
This set of ethical norms puts forward 6 fundamental ethical requirements, such as enhancing the well-being of humankind, promoting fairness and justice, protecting privacy and security, ensuring controllability and trustworthiness, strengthening accountability, and improving ethical literacy. The...
Robotics
How the U.S. Army Is Turning Robots Into Team Players
But in chaotic, unfamiliar, or poorly defined settings, reliance on rules makes robots notoriously bad at dealing with anything that could not be precisely predicted and planned for in advance. In chaotic, unfamiliar, or poorly defined settings, reliance on rules makes robots notoriously bad at...
Tiebreaker: Australians take silver in DARPA robotics challenge
The CSIRO Data61 – Emesent – Georgia Tech journey to the DARPA Subterranean Challenge began more than three years ago under former Data61 chief executive Adrian Turner. Along the way, Emesent was spun out of CSIRO, attracting venture funding from Main Sequence and later US fund In-Q-Tel, largely on...
What’s New in Robotics? 24.09.2021
News briefs for the week take a look at Chewy automating its warehouses, XAG’s multi-purpose, all-electric farm bot, more all-electric robot tech for weeding, recycling’s smaller footprint, robotics’ “iPhone Moment”, and Addverb Technologies expands and goes global. Annually, between 5 and 10 new,...
Research
Amazon at RecSys: Evaluation, bias, and algorithms
The ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) is not one of those conferences. I think it's possible to abstract away the problem and address mathematical questions and experiment with small data and so on.” Castells sees three topics as being of particular interest in the field today:...
Automatic Speech Recognition using CTC
We only need the magnitude, which can be derived by applying tf.abs spectrogram = tf.abs(spectrogram) spectrogram = tf.math.pow(spectrogram, 0.5) # 6. normalisation means = tf.math.reduce_mean(spectrogram, 1, keepdims=True) stddevs = tf.math.reduce_std(spectrogram, 1, keepdims=True) spectrogram =...
MiniHack the Planet: A Sandbox for Open-Ended Reinforcement Learning Research
Installation MiniHack is available on pypi and can be installed as follows: pip install minihack We advise using a conda environment for this: conda create -n minihack python=3.8 conda activate minihack pip install minihack NOTE: NLE requires cmake>=3.15 to be installed when building the package. A...
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