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Mysterious 'humanoid' figures discovered in Peru
Fox News Flash top headlines for Nov. 18 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com Over 140 mysterious new geoglyphs have been discovered in Nazca, Peru, including strange'humanoid' figures. Researchers from Japan's Yamagata University discovered 142 new glyphs. An additional new geoglyph was discovered using artificial intelligence from IBM Japan and the tech giant's Watson supercomputer, which helped researchers reveal the location of the humanoid figure, who appears to be brandishing some form of club.
How Tech Startups Are Implementing Checkout-Free Platforms
According to a recent study conducted by Forrester Research, waiting in the checkout line is the top complaint among U.S. grocery, mass-merchandise, and convenience store shoppers. Mega-retailer Amazon and a quartet of well-funded retail technology startups -- Zippin, Standard Cognition, Grabango and Trigo -- believe they have the solution to the problem: Checkout-free stores powered by various technologies that enable shoppers to walk into the store, grab what they want off the shelves and just walk out. Autonomous checkout, another term for checkout-free, is becoming one of the hottest areas of retail investment today. It comes as the convenience expectations of today's Amazon-shopping, Grubhub-ordering, Uber-hailing consumers are ever-increasing, and informing their in-real-life (IRL) shopping demands. Brands are responding in kind, delivering digital services aimed at automating mundane tasks -- in this case, the checkout process -- so much so that the result is meant to feel "automagical," according to trend forecasting firm TrendWatching. Checkout-free retail has the potential to make shopping even more convenient, retail technology consultant Richard Crone said at this summer's National Retail Federation's NRF Tech 2019 conference in San Francisco.
Artificial Intelligence in Education System Market 2019: Popular Trends, Growth, Rising Demand & Progressive Technologies To Watch Out For Near Future - Sound On Sound Fest
The statistical study, the report outlines the Global Artificial Intelligence in Education System Industry including production, cost/profit, supply-demand, and import-export. The total market is further bifurcated into a company, by country, and by various segmentation for the competitive landscape study.
Global Military Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cybernetics Market: Focus on Platform, Technology, Application and Services - Analysis and Forecast, 2019-2024
Key Questions Answered in this Report: • What are the trends in the global military artificial intelligence and cybernetics across different regions? Global Military Artificial Intelligence Market Forecast, 2019-2024 The Global Military Artificial Intelligence Market report projects the market to grow at a significant CAGR of 18.66% on the basis of value during the forecast period from 2019 to 2024. North America dominated the global military artificial intelligence market with a share of 48.23% in 2019. North America, including the major countries such as the U.S., is the most prominent region for the military artificial intelligence market. In North America, the U.S. acquired a major market share in 2019 due to the major deployment of counter measures in defense sector in the country.
Yamagata University team finds 143 ancient geoglyphs in Peru's Nazca grasslands
YAMAGATA – Yamagata University has announced the discovery of 143 geoglyphs on the Nazca Pampa and surrounding areas in Peru, including one found in a study using artificial intelligence technology. The university's team, led by professor Masato Sakai, found 142 geoglyphs, including ones depicting humans, snakes and birds, through analysis of high-resolution images of the areas and fieldwork there between 2016 and 2018. The research was based on a hypothesis that many geoglyphs were created along small paths in the western region of the Nazca Pampa, according to the university's announcement Friday. The team conducted the AI-based study with cooperation from IBM Japan Ltd. between 2018 and 2019. The world's first such study analyzed aerial photographs using deep-learning techniques to look for what are likely to be geoglyphs.
A Multi-language Platform for Generating Algebraic Mathematical Word Problems
Liyanage, Vijini, Ranathunga, Surangika
--Existing approaches for automatically generating mathematical word problems are deprived of customizability and creativity due to the inherent nature of template-based mechanisms they employ. We present a solution to this problem with the use of deep neural language generation mechanisms. Our approach uses a Character Level Long Short T erm Memory Network (LSTM) to generate word problems, and uses POS (Part of Speech) tags to resolve the constraints found in the generated problems. Our approach is capable of generating Mathematics Word Problems in both English and Sinhala languages with an accuracy over 90%. A Mathematical word problem (MWP) is a mathematical problem expressed in natural language. Unlike other knowledge based question types such as travel or history related questions, MWPs require problem solving ability. In particular, algebraic questions involve sentences to make the questions more deep and inspective. Algebra is a major component of mathematics that is learnt by every student in Ordinary Level (O/L). Simple algebra problems mostly appear in a word format.
Researchers develop AI tool to evade Internet censorship
Internet censorship, basically, is a very effective strategy used by dictatorial governments to limit access to information available online for controlling freedom of expression and prevent rebellion and discord. Countries at the forefront of adopting Internet censorship, as per the findings of the 2019 Freedom House report, are India and China as these are declared to be the worst abusers of digital freedom. Conversely, the US, Brazil, Sudan, and Kazakhstan are the countries where Internet freedom has considerably declined recently. When a country curbs Internet freedom, activists need to find ways to evade it. However, they may not need to manually search for it now that "Geneva" is here. The term is a shorter version of Genetic Evasion.
Multi-domain Conversation Quality Evaluation via User Satisfaction Estimation
Bodigutla, Praveen Kumar, Polymenakos, Lazaros, Matsoukas, Spyros
An automated metric to evaluate dialogue quality is vital for optimizing data driven dialogue management. The common approach of relying on explicit user feedback during a conversation is intrusive and sparse. Current models to estimate user satisfaction use limited feature sets and employ annotation schemes with limited generalizability to conversations spanning multiple domains. To address these gaps, we created a new Response Quality annotation scheme, introduced five new domain-independent feature sets and experimented with six machine learning models to estimate User Satisfaction at both turn and dialogue level. Response Quality ratings achieved significantly high correlation (0.76) with explicit turn-level user ratings. Using the new feature sets we introduced, Gradient Boosting Regression model achieved best (rating [1-5]) prediction performance on 26 seen (linear correlation ~0.79) and one new multi-turn domain (linear correlation 0.67). We observed a 16% relative improvement (68% -> 79%) in binary ("satisfactory/dissatisfactory") class prediction accuracy of a domain-independent dialogue-level satisfaction estimation model after including predicted turn-level satisfaction ratings as features.
RotationOut as a Regularization Method for Neural Network
A BSTRACT In this paper, we propose a novel regularization method, RotationOut, for neural networks. Different from Dropout that handles each neuron/channel independently, RotationOut regards its input layer as an entire vector and introduces regularization by randomly rotating the vector. RotationOut can also be used in convolutional layers and recurrent layers with small modifications. We further use a noise analysis method to interpret the difference between RotationOut and Dropout in co-adaptation reduction. Using this method, we also show how to use RotationOut/Dropout together with Batch Normalization. Extensive experiments in vision and language tasks are conducted to show the effectiveness of the proposed method. Codes are available at https://github.com/KaiHoo/ RotationOut . 1 I NTRODUCTION Dropout (Srivastava et al., 2014) has proven to be effective for preventing overfitting over many deep learning areas, such as image classification (Shrivastava et al., 2017), natural language processing (Hu et al., 2016) and speech recognition (Amodei et al., 2016). In the years since, a wide range of variants have been proposed for wider scenarios, and most related work focus on the improvement of Dropout structures, i.e., how to drop. For example, drop connect (Wan et al., 2013) drops the weights instead of neurons, evolutional dropout (Li et al., 2016) computes the adaptive dropping probabilities on-the-fly, max-pooling dropout (Wu & Gu, 2015) drops neurons in the max-pooling kernel so smaller feature values have some probabilities to to affect the activations. These Dropout-like methods process each neuron/channel in one layer independently and introduce randomness by dropping. These architectures are certainly simple and effective. However, randomly dropping independently is not the only method to introduce randomness. Hinton et al. (2012) argues that overfitting can be reduced by preventing co-adaptation between feature detectors. Thus it is helpful to consider other neurons' information when adding noise to one neuron. For example, lateral inhibition noise could be more effective than independent noise.
Top 10 Stock Market Datasets for Machine Learning Lionbridge AI
With the rise of cryptocurrencies around the world, there are now more ways than ever for people to invest their money. If you could accurately predict the stock market, you'd be one of the richest people on earth. As a result, there have been previous studies on how to predict the stock market using sentiment analysis. For those of you looking to build similar predictive models, this article will introduce 10 stock market and cryptocurrency datasets for machine learning. The data was last updated on November 10th, 2017 and the files are all in CSV format.