Instructional Material
Artificial Intelligence
The course is an introduction to the area of Artificial Intelligence and will introduce the basic ideas and techniques underlying the design of intelligent machines. By the end of this course, you will have learned how to build autonomous (software) agents that efficiently make decisions in fully informed, partially observable and adversarial settings as well as how to optimize actions in uncertain sequential decision making environments to maximize expected reward.
Applied Machine Learning
"Data Science and Machine Learning are one of the hottest tech fields to be in right now! The field is exploding with opportunities and career prospects. It is widely used in several sectors nowadays such as banking, healthcare technology etc.. As there are tonnes of courses on Machine Learning already available over Internet, this is not One of them.. The purpose of this course is to provide you with knowledge of key aspects of data science applications in business in a practical, easy and fun way. The course provides students with practical hands-on experience using real-world datasets.
Exclusive: OpenAI summarizes KDnuggets - KDnuggets
OpenAI has recently published an important work, focused on the alignment problem, the problem of ensuring that general-purpose AI and machine learning systems align with human intentions. The "Paperclip Maximizer" is a famous example of alignment gone wrong. To test scalable alignment methods, OpenAI trained a model to summarize entire books, as described in their blog on KDnuggets: Scaling human oversight of AI systems for difficult tasks – OpenAI approach. OpenAI model works by first summarizing small sections of a book, then summarizing those summaries into a higher-level summary, and so on. The results were pretty amazing, so we have asked OpenAI to summarize two top KDnuggets blogs from last year, and here are the summaries.
The rise of AI and virtual learning could see a decline in professors in college classes
At a large private university in Northern California, a business professor uses an avatar to lecture on a virtual stage. Meanwhile, at a Southern university, graduate students in an artificial intelligence course discover that one of their nine teaching assistants is a virtual avatar, Jill Watson, also known as Watson, IBM's question-answering computer system. Of the 10,000 messages posted to an online message board in one semester, Jill participated in student conversations and responded to all inquiries with 97% accuracy. At a private college on the East Coast, students interact with an AI chat agent in a virtual restaurant set in China to learn the Mandarin language. These examples provide a glimpse into the future of teaching and learning in college.
TRB Webinar: Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Deterioration of Highway Bridges
Often, advanced sensor technologies can assess highway bridge infrastructure. TRB will host a webinar on Monday, February 22, 2021 from 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning (DL) may be used to predict the deterioration of bridges. Presenters will discuss recent case studies related to the application of AI in integrating highway data to better explain and predict system performance. They will also identify how AI and DL may improve sensor signal data, and explain how these technologies can provide support design, operations, and management of highway systems. This webinar was organized by the TRB Standing Committee on Testing and Evaluation of Transportation Structures.
La veille de la cybersécurité
While the field of data science continues to evolve with exciting new progress in analytical approaches and machine learning, there remain a core set of skills that are foundational for all general practitioners and specialists, especially those who want to be employable with full-stack capabilities. Many "How to Data Science" courses and articles, including my own, tend to highlight fundamental skills like Statistics, Math, and Programming. Recently, however, I noticed through my own experiences that these fundamental skills can be hard to translate into practical skills that will make you employable. Therefore, I wanted to create a unique list of practical skills that will make you employable. The first four skills that I talk about are absolutely pivotal for any data scientist, regardless of what you specialize in.
Object Detection Web App With TensorFlow, OpenCV And Flask
Detecting Objects and finding out their names from images is a very challenging and interesting field of Computer Vision. The core science behind Self Driving Cars, Image Captioning and Robotics lies in Object Detection. In this course, you are going to build a Object Detection Model from Scratch using Python's OpenCV library using Pre-Trained Coco Dataset. The model will be deployed as an Web App using Flask Framework of Python. IF YOU FIND THIS FREE UDEMY COURSE " Object Detection Web App "USEFUL AND HELPFUL PLEASE GO AHEAD SHARE THE KNOWLEDGE WITH YOUR FRIENDS WHILE THE COURSE IS STILL AVAILABLE
Learning Proposals for Practical Energy-Based Regression
Gustafsson, Fredrik K., Danelljan, Martin, Schön, Thomas B.
Energy-based models (EBMs) have experienced a resurgence within machine learning in recent years, including as a promising alternative for probabilistic regression. However, energy-based regression requires a proposal distribution to be manually designed for training, and an initial estimate has to be provided at test-time. We address both of these issues by introducing a conceptually simple method to automatically learn an effective proposal distribution, which is parameterized by a separate network head. To this end, we derive a surprising result, leading to a unified training objective that jointly minimizes the KL divergence from the proposal to the EBM, and the negative log-likelihood of the EBM. At test-time, we can then employ importance sampling with the trained proposal to efficiently evaluate the learned EBM and produce stand-alone predictions. Furthermore, we utilize our derived training objective to learn mixture density networks (MDNs) with a jointly trained energy-based teacher, consistently outperforming conventional MDN training on four real-world regression tasks within computer vision. Code is available at https://github.com/fregu856/ebms_proposals.