Ai, Deep Learning And Neural Networks

A compilation of articles, headlines and research papers to document the rise and power of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

By Tom Falk

Depression
University of Alberta PhD student develops AI to identify depression
The Globe and Mail - Wency Leung
Our voices may convey subtle clues about our mood and psychological state. Now, scientists are using artificial intelligence to pick up these clues, with the aim of building voice-analyzing technologies
Artificial Intelligence
This AI Can Insert Your Selfie Into Famous Paintings
VICE
Adding an object to a photo is one of the most basic Photoshop skills in the book, but this simple gag becomes more complex when it comes to convincingly altering paintings. Unless, that is, you have on
Facial Recognition
Manchester City warned against using facial recognition on fans
The Guardian - Maya Wolfe-Robinson
Manchester City have been cautioned against the introduction of facial recognition technology, which a civil rights group says would risk “normalising a mass surveillance tool”. The reigning Premier League
Technology
The U.S. Army is developing A.I. missiles that can choose their own targets
Digital Trends - Luke Dormehl
The United States military wants to equip itself with a new type of artificial intelligence-guided missile, which will use A.I. smarts to pursue its …
DeepMind
Research consortium builds new AI benchmark for understanding language
ZDNet - Campbell Kwan
Conversational AI models had "hit a ceiling" when tested on older benchmarks, limiting their ability to improve. A guide to artificial intelligence, …
Convolutional Neural Network
Building a Vocal Emotion Sensor with Deep Learning
towardsdatascience.com - Alex Muhr
Human expression is multi-faceted and complex. For example, a speaker not only communicates through words, but also through cadence, intonation, …
Unsupervised Learning
Beyond Clustering: The New Methods that are Pushing the Future of Unsupervised Learning
towardsdatascience.com - Jesus Rodriguez
If you ask any group of data science students about the types of machine learning algorithms, they will answer without hesitation: supervised and …
Google “Machine Learning Fairness” Whistleblower Goes Public, says: “burden lifted off of my soul”
projectveritas.com
Google Sent Threatening Letter to Google Insider Zachary Vorhies: “they knew what I had done and that letter contained several demands” HUNDREDS of …
Artificial Intelligence
Behaviour Suite for Reinforcement Learning (bsuite)
github.com - deepmind
bsuite is a collection of carefully-designed experiments that investigate core capabilities of a reinforcement learning (RL) agent with two main …
Kaggle
Predicting Molecular Properties
kaggle.com
Science
Google’s Hate Speech-Detecting AI is Biased Against Black People
futurism.com - Dan Robitzski
Artificial intelligence algorithms meant to detect and moderate hate speech online, including the Perspective algorithm built by Google, have …
Trump Administration
A Proposed Trump Administration Rule Could Let Lenders Discriminate Through A.I.
medium.com - Dave Gershgorn
The Fair Housing Act could be crippled by a new interpretation that would allow tech companies to sell biased algorithms — and get away with it A new …
BindSpace decodes transcription factor binding signals by large-scale
nature.com - Han Yuan, Meghana Kshirsagar, Lee Zamparo, Yuheng Lu, Christina S. Leslie
The decoding of transcription factor (TF) binding signals in genomic DNA is a fundamental problem. Here we present a prediction model called …
Internet of Things
Why AIoT Is Emerging As The Future Of Industry 4.0
Forbes - Janakiram MSV
Two trends that are dominating the technology industry are the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). But for industrial automation, these two technologies are much more than the buzzwords
Machine Learning
10 Must-Try Open Source Tools for Machine Learning
hackernoon.com - Education Ecosystem
Machine learning is the future. But will machines ever extinct humans? As a machine learning developer, you surely want to succeed in your goals. …
World News
Europe will be left behind if it focuses on ethics and not keeping pace in AI development ǀ View
Euronews - By Daniel Castro
President-elect of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen made clear in her recently unveiled policy agenda, that not only will artificial intelligence (AI) be a key component of European digital
Hadoop
Life After Hadoop: Getting Data Science to Work for Your Business
towardsdatascience.com - Josh Patterson
Data science can have transformative effects on a business. But not if it takes weeks to get any results. Putting data science to work can be …
EfficientNet-EdgeTPU: Creating Accelerator-Optimized Neural Networks with AutoML
googleblog.com - Posted by Suyog Gupta, Machine Learning Accelerator Architect and Mingxing Tan, Software Engineer, Google Research
Posted by Suyog Gupta, Machine Learning Accelerator Architect and Mingxing Tan, Software Engineer, Google Research For several decades, ...
DeepMind
DeepMind’s Latest A.I. Health Breakthrough Has Some Problems
medium.com - Julia Powles
The Google machine learning company trumpeted its success in predicting a deadly kidney condition, but its results raise questions around data rights …
Encrypted Training with PyTorch + PySyft on MNIST
openmined.org - Théo Ryffel
When building Machine Learning as a Service solutions (MLaaS), a company often need data from other partners to train its model. In healthcare or …
Codes
Build a Machine Learning Recommender
towardsdatascience.com - James Hope
A quick start guide to building a machine learning recommender in just a few lines of Python code In this post, i’ll show how you can quickly assemble …
A Comprehensive Guide to Correlational Neural Network with Keras
towardsdatascience.com - Md Ashiqur Rahman
Human being along with many other animals have 5 basic senses: Sight, Hearing, Taste, Smell, and Touch. We also have additional senses like a sense of …
Computer Hardware
Harvard Researchers Benchmark TPU, GPU & CPU for Deep Learning
medium.com - Synced
Because training deep learning models requires intensive computation, AI researchers are always on the lookout for new and better hardware and …
Reinforcement Learning
r/algotrading - How to Create A Concurrent Stochastic Reinforcement Learning Environment For Crypto Trading
reddit.com
Reinforcement learning for trading has a problem with overfitting. A way around this is to give an agent many experiences that are close to the real …
DeepMind
DeepMind touts predictive healthcare AI ‘breakthrough’ trained on heavily skewed data
TechCrunch - Natasha Lomas
“According to the evaluation, the app has improved the experience of clinicians responsible for treating AKI, saving them time which would previously have
Artificial Intelligence
One chip to rule them all: It natively runs all types of AI software
Ars Technica - John Timmer
Machine learning and artificial neurons right at home on new chip. We tend to think of AI as a monolithic entity, but it has actually developed along …
DeepMind
Google’s DeepMind can now predict deadly kidney injury two days before it happens
The Telegraph - By Sarah Knapton
Artificial intelligence designed by Google’s DeepMind can now predict deadly kidney injury two days before it happens, in a breakthrough which could save the lives of 30,000 NHS patients each year. Around
Singularity
The Military Secretly Built An “Artificial Brain” Called Sentient
futurism.com - Dan Robitzski
Since 2010, American intelligence agencies have been developing a top-secret “artificial brain” military AI system that they named — seriously — …
Chess
Instead of practicing, this AI mastered chess by reading about it
MIT Technology Review - Will Knight
Machines that appreciate “brilliant” and “dumb” chess moves could learn to play the game—and do other things—more efficiently. Chess fans love nothing …