Fast forward to 2017 I have spent 100's of hours working on Deep learning projects and the technology has become more and more accessible due to several advancements in software(ease of usage -- Keras, PyTorch), hardware(GPU becoming commercially viable for someone like me sitting in India -Not still cheap), availability of data, good books and MOOCS. After completing the 3 most popular MOOCS in deep learning from Fast.ai, deeplearning.ai/Coursera In this post I talk about 5 aspects of each course which will help you decide. I came across this course when reading an article in kddnudgets . For the first time I heard about Jeremy Howard, searched about him in Wikipedia and was impressed .

Ai Weiwei may be China's most famous contemporary artist and a prolific social justice activist. But at his core, Ai insists, he is simply an observer. Not to mention a relentless documenter -- of the Chinese communist government, of international human rights violations, of the 40-some cats that roam his Beijing art studio and of the longtime team members who populate his Berlin art studio, a 150-year-old underground beer cellar. Tonight it's the moon that has captured Ai's attention. He arrived a few hours ago at LAX and now strolls languidly across his agent's Beverly Hills office courtyard, repeatedly stopping to take photos of the sky.

Twitter just paid $150m for 14-person Magic Pony, a UK-based AI visual search company barely anyone had heard of before the deal. At $10m per employee it marks a high water mark in AI for what is essentially a team acquisition. Magister has tracked 26 AI driven deals since 2014 in the US, Europe and Israel, 11 of which involved companies with less than 50 employees which were acquired largely, or entirely, for the team and capability. Across all 11 deals, the median price paid per employee has reached $2.4m, meaning a high quality AI company with 40 employees would be valued at near $100m. Even if it had little or no revenue.

Empathy must be embedded in artificial intelligence from the moment it is created to ensure it becomes a positive force in people's lives, Satya Nadella has said. Speaking at two events in London that coincided with the release of his book, Hit Refresh, the Chief Executive of Microsoft said new technology will have a "profound impact on our daily lives and do good" but companies must also be mindful of "unintended consequences". By ensuring the first wave of AI empowered humanity to achieve more, the technology that follows would be more likely to be a force for good, too, he added. "I believe in a world that will have an abundance of artificial intelligence, but what will be scarce is real intelligence and human qualities, like empathy," Nadella said. "I think great innovation comes from the empathy you have for the problems you want to solve for people. "We need to take accountability for the AI we create.

The startup product is an AI based chatbot with remote identification. Instead of mobile applications and internet banking, all money management, including activation, blocking and unblocking of cards, and free of charge transfers in TalkBank are handled by chatbots, intellectual robot assistants, using text messages. The startup uses machine learning technologies which recognize users' speech and forecasts responses. That's why we – the TalkBank team- created the robot bank. Investors' support will certainly allow us to offer services to wider population in Russia and abroad.

All this week, two eminent neurologists specialising in Alzheimer's are sharing cutting-edge research with Mail readers and revealing how lifestyle tweaks can help fend off the disease. Today, they show how challenging your mind and increasing your social life can help protect your brain against decay . . . You might be fan of a fiendishly complex crossword puzzle or a demon at sudoku, but even if you regularly rattle off the answers when watching University Challenge on TV or flick through the financial pages of the weekend papers, are you properly exercising your brain? Our work as specialists in Alzheimer's has taught us that simple puzzles are not enough. One fundamental factor in the fight to protect yourself against dementia -- and to slow its march if it has already started -- is the quest to build what neuroscientists call'cognitive reserve'. A healthy brain thrives on challenge, especially challenges that are personally relevant and involve many different parts of the brain at the same time. That's because our brains are designed for complexity and they are sustained by it in old age.

The recent "Moon Base Alpha"release by Elon Musk and ESA's recent moon village announcement calling for increased private-government partnership, point towards a growing impatience to kick start large-scale lunar exploration and settlement. The Google Lunar XPrize initiative, which was launched in 2010 to encourage low cost robotic space exploration, is another such initiative, and is likely to give a much necessary boost to the sector. A review panel of the international competition arrived in Bengaluru, India, on a on a five-day inspection of Team Indus, one of the five privately-funded teams in contention for the $30 million grand prize. SpaceIL (Israel), Moon Express (USA), Synergy Moon (International), Team Indus (India) and Hakuto (Japan) are all gearing up to make a space craft that will make a soft-landing on the moon, with a robot that can travel at least 500 meters on the moon surface and send back high-quality images to Earth. All the five teams had won a million dollar prize for demonstrating the landing technology of their spacecraft on the moon in 2015.

New Delhi: Changing customer expectations, falling customer satisfaction, and the promise of lower operating costs are among the major reasons why companies are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots for use as virtual agents or assistants. The banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) sector is clearly taking the lead in India. Consider the case of HDFC Bank Ltd, which said this September that its Facebook Messenger chatbot OnChat had registered a 160% month-on-month growth in transactions. HDFC Bank also has an AI chatbot called'Eva', built for it by Bengaluru-based Senseforth AI Research, which has "successfully addressed over 2.7 million customer queries in the six months since its inception". OnChat, which received over 2.4 million messages, "witnessed nearly 25% usage by non-HDFC Bank users as well, who used the bot to transact and use services", Nitin Chugh, country head-digital banking, HDFC Bank, said.

Note: The Statsbot team has already published the article about using time series analysis for anomaly detection. Today, we'd like to discuss time series prediction with a long short-term memory model (LSTMs). We asked a data scientist, Neelabh Pant, to tell you about his experience of forecasting exchange rates using recurrent neural networks. As an Indian guy living in the US, I have a constant flow of money from home to me and vice versa. If the USD is stronger in the market, then the Indian rupee (INR) goes down, hence, a person from India buys a dollar for more rupees.

LeddarTech, the Canadian developer of sensors and LiDAR distancing systems for ADAS and other mobile systems, raised $101 million in a Series C funding led by Osram with participation by Delphi, Magneti Marelli, Integrated Device Technology, Fonds de solidarité FTQ, BDC Capital and GO Capital. This round of funding will allow LeddarTech to enhance its ASIC development efforts, expand its R&D team, and accelerate ongoing LiDAR development programs with select Tier-1 automotive customers for rapid market deployment. Innoviz Technologies, the Israeli solid-state LiDAR startup, raised $65 million in a Series B funding. Delphi Automotive PLC and Magna International participated in the round, along with additional new investors including 360 Capital Partners, Glory Ventures, Naver and others. All Series A investors also participated in the round.