Artificial intelligence can learn and remember how to do multiple tasks by mimicking the way sleep helps us cement what we learned during waking hours. "There is a huge trend now to bring ideas from neuroscience and biology to improve existing machine learning – and sleep is one of them" says Maxim Bazhenov at the University of California, San Diego. Many AIs can only master one set of well-defined tasks – they can't acquire additional knowledge later on without losing everything they had previously learned. "The issue pops up if you want to develop systems which are capable of so-called lifelong learning," says Pavel Sanda at the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. Lifelong learning is how humans accumulate knowledge to adapt to and solve future challenges.

Are you a PhD student or researcher with an interest in science communication? We are recruiting AIhub ambassadors to help us write about the latest news, research, conferences, and more, in the field of artificial intelligence. Ideally you would produce a series of blog posts on aspects of the field that interest you. You could write about some significant research, give a tutorial, or cover a session at a conference. You could draw attention to exciting new developments in the field, interview a researcher, produce a tutorial video, review a paper or book, or summarise recent social media commentary.

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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. "Deepfake implies unauthorized use of synthetic media and generative artificial intelligence -- we are authorized from the get-go," she told VentureBeat. She described the Tel Aviv- and New York-based Hour One as an AI company that has also "built a legal and ethical framework for how to engage with real people to generate their likeness in digital form." It's an important delineation in an era when deepfakes, or synthetic media in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else's likeness, has gotten a boatload of bad press -- not surprisingly, given deepfakes' longstanding connection to revenge porn and fake news. The term "deepfake" can be traced to a Reddit user in 2017 named "deepfakes" who, along with others in the community, shared videos, many involving celebrity faces swapped onto the bodies of actresses in pornographic videos.

In this first course of the AI Product Management Specialization offered by Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, you will build a foundational understanding of what machine learning is, how it works and when and why it is applied. To successfully manage an AI team or product and work collaboratively with data scientists, software engineers, and customers you need to understand the basics of machine learning technology. This course provides a non-coding introduction to machine learning, with focus on the process of developing models, ML model evaluation and interpretation, and the intuition behind common ML and deep learning algorithms. The course will conclude with a hands-on project in which you will have a chance to train and optimize a machine learning model on a simple real-world problem.

You'll start by learning basic concepts of recommender systems, with an overview of different types of recommender engines and how they function. Next, you will see how to build recommender systems with traditional algorithms such as market basket analysis and content- and knowledge-based recommender systems with NLP. The authors then demonstrate techniques such as collaborative filtering using matrix factorization and hybrid recommender systems that incorporate both content-based and collaborative filtering techniques. This is followed by a tutorial on building machine learning-based recommender systems using clustering and classification algorithms like K-means and random forest. The last chapters cover NLP, deep learning, and graph-based techniques to build a recommender engine.

Machine learning frameworks such as Genetic Programming (GP) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) are gaining popularity in flow control. This work presents a comparative analysis of the two, bench-marking some of their most representative algorithms against global optimization techniques such as Bayesian Optimization (BO) and Lipschitz global optimization (LIPO). First, we review the general framework of the model-free control problem, bringing together all methods as black-box optimization problems. Then, we test the control algorithms on three test cases. These are (1) the stabilization of a nonlinear dynamical system featuring frequency cross-talk, (2) the wave cancellation from a Burgers' flow and (3) the drag reduction in a cylinder wake flow. We present a comprehensive comparison to illustrate their differences in exploration versus exploitation and their balance between `model capacity' in the control law definition versus `required complexity'. We believe that such a comparison paves the way toward the hybridization of the various methods, and we offer some perspective on their future development in the literature on flow control problems.

In this innovative practice work-in-progress paper, we compare two different methods to teach machine learning concepts to undergraduate students in Electrical Engineering. While machine learning is now being offered as a senior-level elective in several curricula, this does not mean all students are exposed to it. Exposure to the concepts and practical applications of machine learning will assist in the creation of a workforce ready to tackle problems related to machine learning, currently a hot topic in industry. Preliminary assessments indicate that this approach promotes student learning. While students prefer the proposed side-by-side teaching approach, numerical comparisons show that the workshop approach may be more effective for student learning, indicating that further work in this area is required.

Where am I? This is one of the most critical questions that any intelligent system should answer to decide whether it navigates to a previously visited area. This problem has long been acknowledged for its challenging nature in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), wherein the robot needs to correctly associate the incoming sensory data to the database allowing consistent map generation. The significant advances in computer vision achieved over the last 20 years, the increased computational power, and the growing demand for long-term exploration contributed to efficiently performing such a complex task with inexpensive perception sensors. In this article, visual loop closure detection, which formulates a solution based solely on appearance input data, is surveyed. We start by briefly introducing place recognition and SLAM concepts in robotics. Then, we describe a loop closure detection system's structure, covering an extensive collection of topics, including the feature extraction, the environment representation, the decision-making step, and the evaluation process. We conclude by discussing open and new research challenges, particularly concerning the robustness in dynamic environments, the computational complexity, and scalability in long-term operations. The article aims to serve as a tutorial and a position paper for newcomers to visual loop closure detection.

I recently wrote an article compiling free machine learning and deep learning ebooks. It was well-received, and so I have decided to follow up with a second installation. If you're interested in delving into the intricacies of deep learning and want some FREE resources, carry on reading. This ebook goes through the three most common forms of neural network architectures: Feedforward, Convolutional and Recurrent. You will gain a deeper understanding of each architecture to help build your deep learning knowledge.