Predicting what someone is about to do next based on their body language comes naturally to humans but not so for computers. When we meet another person, they might greet us with a hello, handshake, or even a fist bump. We may not know which gesture will be used, but we can read the situation and respond appropriately. In a new study, Columbia Engineering researchers unveil a computer vision technique for giving machines a more intuitive sense for what will happen next by leveraging higher-level associations between people, animals, and objects. "Our algorithm is a step toward machines being able to make better predictions about human behavior, and thus better coordinate their actions with ours," said Carl Vondrick, assistant professor of computer science at Columbia, who directed the study, which was presented at the International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition on June 24, 2021.

IIT Madras has invited applications for a free online course called Introduction to Machine Learning on the NPTEL platform. The course, which is AICTE FDP approved, can be taken by senior undergraduate or postgraduate students pursuing their BE, MS, ME or even PhD. The course is 12 weeks long and will be conducted from 26 July to 15 October 2021. It would be most beneficial for students pursuing education in the domains of computer science and engineering, artificial intelligence, data science, programming and robotics. The course will be conducted by professor Balaraman Ravindran who is associated with the department of computer science at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and is also a Mindtree Faculty Fellow.

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Whether it's reading about Harry Potter or Percy Jackson, sixth grader Lulu Schultz can easily spend an hour diving into an adventure. She does," said Katie Schultz, Lulu's mother. "But I think she's a little insecure about reading out loud, but she loves to read." The road to literacy has been bumpy. Schultz said there were signs Lulu was struggling as far back as second grade.

Machine learning (ML), is the study of computer algorithms, that improve automatically through experience and by the use of data. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine learning algorithms, build a model based on sample data, known as "training data", in order to make predictions or decisions without being explicitly programmed to do so. Machine learning algorithms are used in a wide variety of applications, such as in medicine, email filtering, speech recognition, and computer vision, where it is difficult or unfeasible to develop conventional algorithms to perform the needed tasks. In simple words, machine learning is a subset under the broad umbrella of artificial intelligence.

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The sudden outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has created havoc in the education sector worldwide. Students are uncertain about when the educational institutes will again commence their classes, especially in India. Almost all the educational institutes are closed since March 2020 due to the emergence of the corona waves and the increase in infected cases. But one of the most important sectors in India is the education sector. The future of India depends on smart and intelligent youth.

This is the main task of the new technology developed by the Czech companies Scio and Born Digital. The solution uses artificial intelligence to guarantee the correctness of exams and facilitates the work in the online environment for both examiners and examiners. The developed product called ScioLink is unique not only in the Czech but also in the global market. During the last and current school year, the Scio educational company had to provide the Czech National Comparative Examinations (NSZ), which replace or supplement the entrance examinations for dozens of universities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in an online version. The unplanned solution had to be developed in a short time because of the unfavorable development of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly powerful over so many aspects of our lives, from whether we get a mortgage to what treatment we get in hospital. But women and minority groups aren't proportionally represented in the development of the technology, leading to concerns that AI systems will become more biased and unethical. According to the World Economic Forum, only 22% of all AI professionals globally are women; meanwhile, research from The Alan Turing Institute has revealed that only eight percent of UK researchers who contribute to the leading machine learning conferences are women. So, decision-making machines are shaping the world, but the people whose work underpins that vision aren't representative of the society these systems are supposed to serve. Technology, as I'm sure we all know, is not neutral.

We study the selective learning problem introduced by Qiao and Valiant (2019), in which the learner observes $n$ labeled data points one at a time. At a time of its choosing, the learner selects a window length $w$ and a model $\hat\ell$ from the model class $\mathcal{L}$, and then labels the next $w$ data points using $\hat\ell$. The excess risk incurred by the learner is defined as the difference between the average loss of $\hat\ell$ over those $w$ data points and the smallest possible average loss among all models in $\mathcal{L}$ over those $w$ data points. We give an improved algorithm, termed the hybrid exponential weights algorithm, that achieves an expected excess risk of $O((\log\log|\mathcal{L}| + \log\log n)/\log n)$. This result gives a doubly exponential improvement in the dependence on $|\mathcal{L}|$ over the best known bound of $O(\sqrt{|\mathcal{L}|/\log n})$. We complement the positive result with an almost matching lower bound, which suggests the worst-case optimality of the algorithm. We also study a more restrictive family of learning algorithms that are bounded-recall in the sense that when a prediction window of length $w$ is chosen, the learner's decision only depends on the most recent $w$ data points. We analyze an exponential weights variant of the ERM algorithm in Qiao and Valiant (2019). This new algorithm achieves an expected excess risk of $O(\sqrt{\log |\mathcal{L}|/\log n})$, which is shown to be nearly optimal among all bounded-recall learners. Our analysis builds on a generalized version of the selective mean prediction problem in Drucker (2013); Qiao and Valiant (2019), which may be of independent interest.