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7 WordPress Themes Leveraging Machine Learning Capabilities

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Machine learning has brought profound changes to the digital marketing profession. The number of websites employing machine learning continues to rise sharply every year. Many CMS platforms are using machine learning capabilities to provide better service to their users. This platform has used machine learning for countless applications. WP Beginner has shared 10 major plugins that utilize AI to solve various challenges.


COVID-19: The 4 most innovative inventions that were born as a result of the pandemic - HI4AI

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Remote control masks, alarms to avoid touching the face and, large-scale thermometers are proof that crisis can also bring great opportunities for innovation and improvement. There is no doubt that the expansion of COVID-19 worldwide has had a direct impact not only on public health but also on the economy and people's lifestyles. However, adversity also brings with it great opportunities for innovation and creativity. Since the pandemic was unleashed, numerous scholars, businessmen and, specialists in Information technology have put all their experience to help reduce infections by a coronavirus and improve our quality of life while living with the invisible enemy. In the next article, you will learn about the four most innovative inventions you would have never imagined could be developed.


Top 10 Best FREE Artificial Intelligence Courses

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Most of the Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, NLP job positions, or in general every Artificial Intelligence (AI) job position requires you to have at least a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or some similar field. If your degree comes from some of the world's best universities than your chances might be higher in beating the competition on your job interview. But looking realistically, not most of the people can afford to go to the top universities in the world simply because not most of us are geniuses and don't have thousands of dollars, or come from some poor country (like we do). No with the high demand of skilled professionals from these fields, there are exceptions being made, so we can see that people who don't come from these fields, are learning and adjusting themselves in order to get that paycheck. In this article, we are going to list some of the free Artificial Intelligence courses that come from Harvard University, MIT University, and Stanford University that anyone can attend, no matter where they live.


Top 5 Best Machine Learning Course

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Everyone wants to be part of machine learning, data science, data scientist, big data, artificial intelligence big wave but very few people where to start with. Many of the sites offer a course on these topics but either the fee is too high or the path is not properly defined or they don't offer job guarantee even after paying high fees. Again, there are some of the educational institutions which offer masters or work-integrated course. But before proceeding it's better to understand whether we will be able to handle the learning curve, we are made for that or not. For knowing that it's better to take some low price course so that we have an overview of what we are going into.


10 Undergraduate Data Science Courses For 2020

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With artificial intelligence and analytics being the talk of the hour, there cannot be a better time to get started with these technologies. COVID pandemic outbreak has further increased the demand for data scientists thus learning data science skills, in the current situation, can present high employment chances. Till now, the field of data science and AI has been a preferred choice for postgraduate programs; however, the increasing demand for data professionals is making it imperative for students to start early. And that's where an undergraduate AI and data science course can help. Now that the results for Class XII board exams are out, this could be the perfect chance for the pass out students to build a career in the most demanding profession of the world.


Intrinsically Motivated Goal Exploration Processes with Automatic Curriculum Learning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Intrinsically motivated spontaneous exploration is a key enabler of autonomous lifelong learning in human children. It enables the discovery and acquisition of large repertoires of skills through self-generation, self-selection, self-ordering and self-experimentation of learning goals. We present an algorithmic approach called Intrinsically Motivated Goal Exploration Processes (IMGEP) to enable similar properties of autonomous or self-supervised learning in machines. The IMGEP algorithmic architecture relies on several principles: 1) self-generation of goals, generalized as fitness functions; 2) selection of goals based on intrinsic rewards; 3) exploration with incremental goal-parameterized policy search and exploitation of the gathered data with a batch learning algorithm; 4) systematic reuse of information acquired when targeting a goal for improving towards other goals. We present a particularly efficient form of IMGEP, called Modular Population-Based IMGEP, that uses a population-based policy and an object-centered modularity in goals and mutations. We provide several implementations of this architecture and demonstrate their ability to automatically generate a learning curriculum within several experimental setups including a real humanoid robot that can explore multiple spaces of goals with several hundred continuous dimensions. While no particular target goal is provided to the system, this curriculum allows the discovery of skills that act as stepping stone for learning more complex skills, e.g. nested tool use. We show that learning diverse spaces of goals with intrinsic motivations is more efficient for learning complex skills than only trying to directly learn these complex skills.


Model Checkers Are Cool: How to Model Check Voting Protocols in Uppaal

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The design and implementation of an e-voting system is a challenging task. Formal analysis can be of great help here. In particular, it can lead to a better understanding of how the voting system works, and what requirements on the system are relevant. In this paper, we propose that the state-of-art model checker Uppaal provides a good environment for modelling and preliminary verification of voting protocols. To illustrate this, we present an Uppaal model of Pr\^et \`a Voter, together with some natural extensions. We also show how to verify a variant of receipt-freeness, despite the severe limitations of the property specification language in the model checker.


Na\"ive regression requires weaker assumptions than factor models to adjust for multiple cause confounding

arXiv.org Machine Learning

The empirical practice of using factor models to adjust for shared, unobserved confounders, $\mathbf{Z}$, in observational settings with multiple treatments, $\mathbf{A}$, is widespread in fields including genetics, networks, medicine, and politics. Wang and Blei (2019, WB) formalizes these procedures and develops the "deconfounder," a causal inference method using factor models of $\mathbf{A}$ to estimate "substitute confounders," $\hat{\mathbf{Z}}$, then estimating treatment effects by regressing the outcome, $\mathbf{Y}$, on part of $\mathbf{A}$ while adjusting for $\hat{\mathbf{Z}}$. WB claim the deconfounder is unbiased when there are no single-cause confounders and $\hat{\mathbf{Z}}$ is "pinpointed." We clarify pinpointing requires each confounder to affect infinitely many treatments. We prove under these assumptions, a na\"ive semiparametric regression of $\mathbf{Y}$ on $\mathbf{A}$ is asymptotically unbiased. Deconfounder variants nesting this regression are therefore also asymptotically unbiased, but variants using $\hat{\mathbf{Z}}$ and subsets of causes require further untestable assumptions. We replicate every deconfounder analysis with available data and find it fails to consistently outperform na\"ive regression. In practice, the deconfounder produces implausible estimates in WB's case study to movie earnings: estimates suggest comic author Stan Lee's cameo appearances causally contributed \$15.5 billion, most of Marvel movie revenue. We conclude neither approach is a viable substitute for careful research design in real-world applications.


Examining Undergraduate Computer Science Participation in North Carolina

Communications of the ACM

Former U.S. President Obama put forth the initiative'CSForAll' in order to prepare all students to learn computer science (CS) skills and be prepared for the digital economy. The'ForAll' portion of the title emphasizes the importance of inclusion in computing via the participation and creation of tools by and for diverse populations in order to "avoid the consequences of narrowly focused AI (computing and other) applications, including the risk of biases in developing algorithms, by taking advantage of a broader spectrum of experience, backgrounds, and opinions."10 Throughout this report, the Obama administration highlighted the number one priority, and challenge, of the field of CS: to equip the next generation with CS knowledge and skills equitably in preparation for the currency of the digital economy. An increase in government funding is part of the initiative for CSForAll. Of the $4 billion pledged in state funding, only $100 million is sent directly to the K–12 school system.17 The rest of the funding is set aside for research and initiatives involving policymakers to help expand CS opportunities. In just one year, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) were called to make $135 million in CS funding available.17 The initiative also called for "expanding access to prior NSF supported programs and professional learning communities through their CS10k that led to the creation of more inclusive and accessible CS education curriculum including "Exploring CS and Advanced Placement (AP) CS Principles."