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21st Century Skills : The Most Demanding Skills of Quantum Era
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Is Intel Labs' brain-inspired AI approach the future of robot learning?
Join us on November 9 to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers at the Low-Code/No-Code Summit. Can computer systems develop to the point where they can think creatively, identify people or items they have never seen before, and adjust accordingly -- all while working more efficiently, with less power? Intel Labs is betting on it, with a new hardware and software approach using neuromorphic computing, which, according to a recent blog post, "uses new algorithmic approaches that emulate how the human brain interacts with the world to deliver capabilities closer to human cognition." While this may sound futuristic, Intel's neuromorphic computing research is already fostering interesting use cases, including how to add new voice interaction commands to Mercedes-Benz vehicles; create a robotic hand that delivers medications to patients; or develop chips that recognize hazardous chemicals. Machine learning-driven systems, such as autonomous cars, robotics, drones, and other self-sufficient technologies, have relied on ever-smaller, more-powerful, energy-efficient processing chips.
Democratizing AI for All with Plainsight and Intel
When you think about AI, you don't typically think about agriculture. But imagine how much easier farmers' lives would be if they could use computer vision to track livestock or detect pests in their fields. Just one problem: How can an enterprise leverage AI if they don't already have a team of data scientists? This is a pressing question not only in agriculture but also in a wide range of industrial businesses, such as manufacturing and logistics. After all, data scientists are in short supply! In this podcast, we explore how companies can deploy computer vision with their existing staff--no expensive hiring or extensive training required. We explain how to democratize AI so non-experts can use it, the possibilities that come from making AI more accessible, and unexpected ways AI transforms a range of industries. Our guests this episode are Elizabeth Spears, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer for Plainsight, a machine learning lifecycle management provider for AIoT platforms, and Bridget Martin, Director of Industrial AI & Analytics of the Internet of Things Group at Intel . In her current role, Elizabeth works on innovating Plainsight's end-to-end, no-code computer vision platform. She spends most of her time focusing on products offered by Plainsight, particularly thinking of what new products to build, what order to build them in, and why they are needed. Bridget focuses on building up the knowledge and understanding that occur during the process of adopting AI, especially in an industrial space.
Introducing the Semantic Graph
This article is part of a tutorial series on txtai, an AI-powered semantic search platform. One of the main use cases of txtai is semantic search over a corpus of data. Semantic search provides an understanding of natural language and identifies results that have the same meaning, not necessarily the same keywords. Within an Embeddings instance sits a wealth of implied knowledge and relationships between rows. Many approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) indexes are even backed by graphs.
Machine Learning for All
Machine Learning, often called Artificial Intelligence or AI, is one of the most exciting areas of technology at the moment. We see daily news stories that herald new breakthroughs in facial recognition technology, self driving cars or computers that can have a conversation just like a real person. Machine Learning technology is set to revolutionise almost any area of human life and work, and so will affect all our lives, and so you are likely to want to find out more about it. Machine Learning has a reputation for being one of the most complex areas of computer science, requiring advanced mathematics and engineering skills to understand it. While it is true that working as a Machine Learning engineer does involve a lot of mathematics and programming, we believe that anyone can understand the basic concepts of Machine Learning, and given the importance of this technology, everyone should.
A Comparison of SVM against Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) for Text Classification Tasks
Wahba, Yasmen, Madhavji, Nazim, Steinbacher, John
The emergence of pre-trained language models (PLMs) has shown great success in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks including text classification. Due to the minimal to no feature engineering required when using these models, PLMs are becoming the de facto choice for any NLP task. However, for domain-specific corpora (e.g., financial, legal, and industrial), fine-tuning a pre-trained model for a specific task has shown to provide a performance improvement. In this paper, we compare the performance of four different PLMs on three public domain-free datasets and a real-world dataset containing domain-specific words, against a simple SVM linear classifier with TFIDF vectorized text. The experimental results on the four datasets show that using PLMs, even fine-tuned, do not provide significant gain over the linear SVM classifier. Hence, we recommend that for text classification tasks, traditional SVM along with careful feature engineering can pro-vide a cheaper and superior performance than PLMs.
Deep Surrogate Docking: Accelerating Automated Drug Discovery with Graph Neural Networks
Hosseini, Ryien, Simini, Filippo, Clyde, Austin, Ramanathan, Arvind
The process of screening molecules for desirable properties is a key step in several applications, ranging from drug discovery to material design. During the process of drug discovery specifically, protein-ligand docking, or chemical docking, is a standard in-silico scoring technique that estimates the binding affinity of molecules with a specific protein target. Recently, however, as the number of virtual molecules available to test has rapidly grown, these classical docking algorithms have created a significant computational bottleneck. We address this problem by introducing Deep Surrogate Docking (DSD), a framework that applies deep learning-based surrogate modeling to accelerate the docking process substantially. DSD can be interpreted as a formalism of several earlier surrogate prefiltering techniques, adding novel metrics and practical training practices. Specifically, we show that graph neural networks (GNNs) can serve as fast and accurate estimators of classical docking algorithms. Additionally, we introduce FiLMv2, a novel GNN architecture which we show outperforms existing state-of-the-art GNN architectures, attaining more accurate and stable performance by allowing the model to filter out irrelevant information from data more efficiently. Through extensive experimentation and analysis, we show that the DSD workflow combined with the FiLMv2 architecture provides a 9.496x speedup in molecule screening with a < 3% recall error rate on an example docking task.