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How machine learning helps companies stay agile in a pandemic (VB Live)
In a world profoundly impacted by the pandemic, machine learning and AI has offered powerful new ways to adapt and face pressing business challenges. To learn more about the unique opportunities ML offers, best practices for leveraging the technology, and more, don't miss this VB Live event. But the situation has presented an opportunity to reimagine the customer experience and buying journey, employee experiences, new ways of working, and how we interact as a society, says Michelle K. Lee, Vice President of the Amazon Machine Learning Solutions Lab, AWS. With the proliferation of data and virtually unlimited quantities of specialized computing power available via the cloud, machine learning can help businesses make faster, more informed decisions, create efficiencies in processes, open up new revenue streams, and usher in a new wave of innovation that wasn't possible before. Businesses that have embraced new ways to meet the customer where they are will have a significant competitive advantage.
Key Trends Framing the State of AI and ML
In just the last few years, most companies that were evaluating or experimenting with AI are now using it in production deployments. When organisations adopt analytic technologies like AI and machine learning (ML), it naturally prompts them to start asking questions that challenge them to think differently about what they know about their business across departments, from manufacturing, production and logistics, to sales, customer service and IT. An organisation's use of AI and ML tools and techniques โ and the various contexts in which it uses them โ will change as they gain new knowledge. O'Reilly's learning platform is a treasure trove of information about the trends, topics, and issues tech and business leaders need to know to do their jobs and keep their businesses running. We recently analysed the platform's user usage to take a closer look at the most popular and most-searched topics in AI and ML.
Accelerated Natural Language Processing: A Free Amazon Machine Learning University Course - KDnuggets
Amazon's Machine Learning University is making its online courses, previously only available to Amazon employees, freely-available to the public. This content is based on the Machine Learning University (MLU) Accelerated Natural Language Processing class. Our mission is to make Machine Learning accessible to everyone. We believe Machine Learning will be a tool for success for many people in their careers. We teach Machine Learning courses on different topics.
Artificial Intelligence in Digital Marketing Certification
This game-changing course in 2020 will cover artificial intelligence tools in content creation, curation, augmented reality and digital marketing and will take you on a glimpse into the future. We will also look at influencer marketing tools, content trends and a bit of competitor analysis through the use of BuzzSumo. Why learn this amazing artificial intelligence course and how is this a differentiator for content creators? This course can change your life if you are a content expert. Because, I will provide you with hands-on experience on creating tons and tons of articles for your blog for inbound marketing using an Artificial Intelligence content tool and you don't even have to write the content yourself - ever again.
Machine Learning Prerequisites for 2021
Online Courses Udemy Machine Learning Prerequisites for 2021, Learn the foundation and prerequisites to become a Machine Learning Engineer Created by Pythonist org Students also bought Machine Learning A-Z: Hands-On Python & R In Data Science Python for Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp Machine Learning, Data Science and Deep Learning with Python Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp with R Scala and Spark for Big Data and Machine Learning Machine Learning with Javascript Preview this course GET COUPON CODE Description In this course, you are going to learn the prerequisites for machine learning. Machine Learning is a vast subject that involved various other fields like Mathematics and Statistics which makes it complex. So when someone starts this journey there are very high chances to get confused due to too many concepts bombarded at you. It's an experienced opinion that a strong foundation can help us to make this journey much easier, this will provide a jump start for modern machine learning by teaching the important concepts required to get started with machine learning. We will start this course by getting ourself introduced withe machine learning then we will set up the development environment on various systems and move towards mathematics where we will explore various important concepts from Calculus and Linear Algebra followed by Statistics where we will learn about the Probability distribution, bias, and variance, mean, median and mode along with various other important concepts.
Akraino's AI Edge-School/Education Video Security Monitoring Blueprint - LF Edge
In order to support end-to-end edge solutions from the Akraino community, Akraino uses blueprint concepts to address specific Edge use cases. A Blueprint is a declarative configuration of the entire stack i.e., edge platform that can support edge workloads and edge APIs. In order to address specific use cases, a reference architecture is developed by the community. The School/Education Video Security Monitoring Blueprint belongs to the AI Edge Blueprint family. It focuses on establishing an open source MEC platform that combined with AI capacities at the Edge.
Researchers find face masks have no 'significant' effect on speech recognition accuracy
Can face masks affect the accuracy of automatic speech recognition systems? That's the question researchers at the Educational Testing Service (ETS), the nonprofit assessment organization headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, sought to answer in a study published this week. Drawing on recordings from ETS' English language proficiency test, for which exam-takers were required to wear face masks, they found that while differences between the recordings and no-mask baselines existed, they didn't lead to "significant" variations in scores. The pandemic has led to a dramatic increase in the use of face masks worldwide, with 65% of U.S. adults saying they wore a mask in stores during the month of May, according to the Pew Research Center. This has potential implications for the speech algorithms underpinning smart speakers, smart displays, mobile apps, and indeed automated language proficiency tests. Face coverings come in all sizes and thicknesses and can impact a wearer's speech patterns, for example by distorting the sound of a person's speech or by greatly attenuating it.
Competence-Based Student Modelling with Dynamic Bayesian Networks
Morales-Gamboa, Rafael, Sucar, L. Enrique
Competences have grown in popularity in the western educational world [1, 2, 3], and so the interest on developing computational models for competences that can be used to support a variety of educational processes, from creating digital catalogues of competences to course design to monitoring competence development by students. Although meaning varies among organisations, in this paper we will assume a definition of competence along the line of'the capability of someone to act effectively in some kind of situations, which demands the mobilization of a variety of internal and external resources' which broadly integrates aspects of external performance and internal composition of competences that emerge in the literature. Research in this area is important because little information is available regarding what competences the students have developed along their studies, and to what extend, beyond the stated learning objectives of the educational programmes they are subscribed in, and the titles of the courses they have taken and passed. Furthermore, information regarding the development of competences do not accumulate, neither at school nor later in life. For example, transversal competences are develop along many courses on specific contexts (e.g.
Fatigue-aware Bandits for Dependent Click Models
Cao, Junyu, Sun, Wei, Zuo-Jun, null, Shen, null, Ettl, Markus
As recommender systems send a massive amount of content to keep users engaged, users may experience fatigue which is contributed by 1) an overexposure to irrelevant content, 2) boredom from seeing too many similar recommendations. To address this problem, we consider an online learning setting where a platform learns a policy to recommend content that takes user fatigue into account. We propose an extension of the Dependent Click Model (DCM) to describe users' behavior. We stipulate that for each piece of content, its attractiveness to a user depends on its intrinsic relevance and a discount factor which measures how many similar contents have been shown. Users view the recommended content sequentially and click on the ones that they find attractive. Users may leave the platform at any time, and the probability of exiting is higher when they do not like the content. Based on user's feedback, the platform learns the relevance of the underlying content as well as the discounting effect due to content fatigue. We refer to this learning task as "fatigue-aware DCM Bandit" problem. We consider two learning scenarios depending on whether the discounting effect is known. For each scenario, we propose a learning algorithm which simultaneously explores and exploits, and characterize its regret bound.