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5 practical reasons to embrace artificial intelligence

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Artificial intelligence is about more than robots. Whether someone considers themself a tech expert, or a newbie when it comes to technology, there are still a plethora of things in any modern home that use artificial intelligence (AI). But while it's easy to get pulled into a world of science-fiction robots like Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Skynet from the Terminator series, or the robot on Lost in Space that often gave the warning, "Danger, Will Robinson!", everyone is slowly coming to realize that it's really nothing like that. In a typical household, everything from smart assistants in the form of smart speakers, vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers, streaming services, and spam filters are all powered by AI. And of course there are now an assortment of cute AI dogs, cats and other robotic pets as well. Microsoft estimates that 85% of Americans already use AI.


When programming became a chore

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A conversation I had with one of my teachers in ninth grade still comes back to me occasionally. We were discussing how to interact with people, and how to do so without coming off as an arrogant asshole. This was certainly an issue that warranted discussing. She knew I liked programming, and suggested approaching it as a problem that needed solving. At some point, she suggested the business jargon of "solutions", having heard that from somebody in the tech industry.


Artificial Intelligence Course in Chennai Best Artificial Intelligence Training

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It assists people and businesses in forming great and innovative products. Critical decisions are taken by AI. As per a report from World Economic Forum, machines and algorithms that are present in the workplace though cause 75 million jobs to be displaced by 2022 will create 133 million new roles, which is a great positive. So this adds up to your reason for taking up the Artificial Intelligence Course in Chennai from SLA.


Sprayable user interfaces

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For decades researchers have envisioned a world where digital user interfaces are seamlessly integrated with the physical environment, until the two are virtually indistinguishable from one another. This vision, though, is held up by a few boundaries. First, it's difficult to integrate sensors and display elements into our tangible world due to various design constraints. Second, most methods to do so are limited to smaller scales, bound by the size of the fabricating device. Recently, a group of researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) came up with SprayableTech, a system that lets users create room-sized interactive surfaces with sensors and displays.


Deep Learning Shows Promising Growth Amid Challenges

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Deep learning, a subset of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), has been there since a while, but became an overnight "sensation" when in 2016, Google's AI program, a robot player beat human grandmaster Lee Seedol in the famed game of AlphaGo . Since then, deep learning training and learning methods became widely acknowledged for "humanizing" machines. Many of the advanced automation capabilities now found in enterprise AI platforms are due to the rapid growth of ML and deep learning technologies, as researchers predict deep learning to provide formidable momentum for the adoption and growth of AI, even though most of these experiments are in their infancy. By definition, deep learning is a powerful tool for enterprises looking to gain actionable insights and enable automated responses to a flood of data, especially unstructured data, from all kinds of devices, Internet of Things (IoT), social media and – of course – from corporate data systems. From that perspective deep learning works incredibly well with unstructured data, such as images, sound, time-series of events and so on.


Clearview AI CEO disavows white nationalism after exposé on alt-right ties

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Two employees of controversial facial recognition startup Clearview AI have been found to have ties to white nationalism, according to an exhaustive report by HuffPost published on Tuesday. The report found that one investigator for the company belonged to a white nationalist group based in Washington, DC who continued to work for the company as recently as last month. Another employee had enthusiastically endorsed "Islamophobia, Eurocentrism and anti-Semitism" in online writings in 2015. Reached by The Verge, Clearview CEO Hoan Ton-That said he was unaware of the online writings and that neither employee remains with the company. "I am not a white supremacist or an anti-semite, nor am I sympathetic to any of those views," Ton-That said in a statement.


A Review of Vibration-Based Damage Detection in Civil Structures: From Traditional Methods to Machine Learning and Deep Learning Applications

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Monitoring structural damage is extremely important for sustaining and preserving the service life of civil structures. While successful monitoring provides resolute and staunch information on the health, serviceability, integrity and safety of structures; maintaining continuous performance of a structure depends highly on monitoring the occurrence, formation and propagation of damage. Damage may accumulate on structures due to different environmental and human-induced factors. Numerous monitoring and detection approaches have been developed to provide practical means for early warning against structural damage or any type of anomaly. Considerable effort has been put into vibration-based methods, which utilize the vibration response of the monitored structure to assess its condition and identify structural damage. Meanwhile, with emerging computing power and sensing technology in the last decade, Machine Learning (ML) and especially Deep Learning (DL) algorithms have become more feasible and extensively used in vibration-based structural damage detection with elegant performance and often with rigorous accuracy. While there have been multiple review studies published on vibration-based structural damage detection, there has not been a study where the transition from traditional methods to ML and DL methods are described and discussed. This paper aims to fulfill this gap by presenting the highlights of the traditional methods and provide a comprehensive review of the most recent applications of ML and DL algorithms utilized for vibration-based structural damage detection in civil structures.


Structure-preserving neural networks

arXiv.org Machine Learning

We develop a method to learn physical systems from data that employs feedforward neural networks and whose predictions comply with the first and second principles of thermodynamics. The method employs a minimum amount of data by enforcing the metriplectic structure of dissipative Hamiltonian systems in the form of the so-called General Equation for the Non-Equilibrium Reversible-Irreversible Coupling, GENERIC [M. Grmela and H.C Oettinger (1997). Dynamics and thermodynamics of complex fluids. I. Development of a general formalism. Phys. Rev. E. 56 (6): 6620-6632]. The method does not need to enforce any kind of balance equation, and thus no previous knowledge on the nature of the system is needed. Conservation of energy and dissipation of entropy in the prediction of previously unseen situations arise as a natural by-product of the structure of the method. Examples of the performance of the method are shown that include conservative as well as dissipative systems, discrete as well as continuous ones.


Reinforced Anytime Bottom Up Rule Learning for Knowledge Graph Completion

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Most of todays work on knowledge graph completion is concerned with sub-symbolic approaches that focus on the concept of embedding a given graph in a low dimensional vector space. Against this trend, we propose an approach called AnyBURL that is rooted in the symbolic space. Its core algorithm is based on sampling paths, which are generalized into Horn rules. Previously published results show that the prediction quality of AnyBURL is on the same level as current state of the art with the additional benefit of offering an explanation for the predicted fact. In this paper, we are concerned with two extensions of AnyBURL. Firstly, we change AnyBURLs interpretation of rules from $\Theta$-subsumption into $\Theta$-subsumption under Object Identity. Secondly, we introduce reinforcement learning to better guide the sampling process. We found out that reinforcement learning helps finding more valuable rules earlier in the search process. We measure the impact of both extensions and compare the resulting approach with current state of the art approaches. Our results show that AnyBURL outperforms most sub-symbolic methods.


Risk-Aware High-level Decisions for Automated Driving at Occluded Intersections with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Reinforcement learning is nowadays a popular framework for solving different decision making problems in automated driving. However, there are still some remaining crucial challenges that need to be addressed for providing more reliable policies. In this paper, we propose a generic risk-aware DQN approach in order to learn high level actions for driving through unsignalized occluded intersections. The proposed state representation provides lane based information which allows to be used for multi-lane scenarios. Moreover, we propose a risk based reward function which punishes risky situations instead of only collision failures. Such rewarding approach helps to incorporate risk prediction into our deep Q network and learn more reliable policies which are safer in challenging situations. The efficiency of the proposed approach is compared with a DQN learned with conventional collision based rewarding scheme and also with a rule-based intersection navigation policy. Evaluation results show that the proposed approach outperforms both of these methods. It provides safer actions than collision-aware DQN approach and is less overcautious than the rule-based policy.