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MessagePath - the AI writing coach - The PR Tool Shack - Issue #29
MessagePath's software helps you write the right words and helps companies make sure communications are effective, on brand, and legally safe. Good writing is important, intelligent writing generates better results. We all write different kind of documents in PR - from press releases to more in depth reports and briefings. AI can help and Messagepath is a good example of how this works. This tool brings "contextual intelligence" to your writing and will analyse not only the structure of your text but also the words used.
Peter Jansen
I am a broadly interdisciplinary artificial intelligence researcher specializing in natural language processing and methods inspired by cognition and the brain. I apply these to application areas in science and health care. A central focus of my science research is on how we can teach computers question answering in the form of passing standardized science exams, as written. In particular, I focus on methods of automated inference that generate explanations for why the answer is correct, largely using graph-based methods. In terms of health care, I study how we can use natural language processing and inference to improve electronic health records and improve nurse communication, as well as detect potentially dangerous clinical events before they happen.
Train sklearn 100x faster
At Ibotta we train a lot of machine learning models. They make predictions for millions of users as they interact with our mobile app. While we do much of our data processing with Spark, our preferred machine learning framework is scikit-learn. As compute gets cheaper and time to market for machine learning solutions becomes more critical, we've explored options for speeding up model training. One of those solutions is to combine elements from Spark and scikit-learn into our own hybrid solution.
ELLIS SITES: CALL FOR PROPOSALS
ELLIS is a not-for-profit organization whose goal is to establish a network of European research labs on Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems. ELLIS' aspiration is to become the leading open science AI organization in the world. The ELLIS sites are key towards reaching this goal as they will provide unprecedented flexibility and financial support to a selected group of researchers in machine learning - and related fields - to spark economic and societal innovation. The long-term vision is to build a joint European laboratory similar to the European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL) as described in the original open letter (https://ellis.eu/letter). ELLIS sites are a key element towards achieving this goal as they will implement as much of the ELLIS vision as possible.
Automation Anywhere is looking for a great Sr. Manager, Partnerships - Automation Anywhere University (AAU).
Do you want to make an impact? We are driving the adoption of robotic process automation technology in leading Fortune 1000 and other companies across more than 90 countries. At Automation Anywhere, we are passionate in our belief that software bots can free people to create, think, discover, and ultimately build great companies. With our Digital Workforce platform, we are contributing to build a Digital Workforce, 3M strong, by 2020. Our platform includes Robotic Process Automation, cognitive technologies and analytics and is adopted by over 1,400 of the world's leading enterprises and many are calling it one of the most essential and disruptive technologies in the market today.
Artificial Intelligence is creating jobs in India, not just stealing them - ETtech
Five years ago, Hyderabad resident Tulasi Mathi was forced to quit her job as a maths teacher due to health issues and the birth of her two children. But today, the 29-year-old does data labelling and makes up to Rs 15,000 a month. The money isn't much but it's more than she made as a teacher, and enough to pay her kids' school fees and her own expenses.She chanced on data labelling work through a YouTube video in 2017. Today, she scans videos and marks and labels objects encountered by self-driving cars. Her output is used to train artificial intelligence algorithms powering such cars. All Mathi knows is that it makes her life easier.
On Education A-Z Machine Learning using Azure Machine Learning (AzureML) - all courses
Understand the concepts and intuition of Machine Learning algorithms Build Machine Learning models within minutes Choose the correct Machine Learning Algorithm using the cheatsheet Deploy production grade Machine Learning algorithms Deploy Machine Learning webservices in the simplest form possible including excel Bring in great value to business you manage Basic Math is good enough. This course does not require background in Data Science. Will be great if you have one. Free or paid subscription to Microsoft Azure is required. It may ask for Phone and/or Credit Card for verification Machine Learning is one of the hottest and top paying skills.
Researchers at Udacity develop AI that can generate lecture videos from audio narration
Producing content for Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platforms like Coursera and EdX might be academically rewarding (and potentially lucrative), but it's time-consuming -- particularly where videos are involved. Professional-level lecture clips require not only a veritable studio's worth of equipment, but significant resources to transfer, edit, and upload footage of each lesson. That's why research scientists formerly at Udacity, an online learning platform with over 150 courses, are investigating a machine learning framework that automatically generates lecture videos from audio narration alone. They claim in a preprint paper ("LumièreNet: Lecture Video Synthesis from Audio") on Arxiv.org that their AI system -- LumièreNet -- can synthesize footage of any length by directly mapping between audio and corresponding visuals. "In current video production pipeline, an AI machinery which semi (or fully) automates lecture video production at scale would be highly valuable to enable agile video content development (rather than reshooting each new video)," wrote the paper's coauthors.
Span Selection Pre-training for Question Answering
Glass, Michael, Gliozzo, Alfio, Chakravarti, Rishav, Ferritto, Anthony, Pan, Lin, Bhargav, G P Shrivatsa, Garg, Dinesh, Sil, Avirup
BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) and related pre-trained Transformers have provided large gains across many language understanding tasks, achieving a new state-of-the-art (SOTA). BERT is pre-trained on two auxiliary tasks: Masked Language Model and Next Sentence Prediction. In this paper we introduce a new pre-training task inspired by reading comprehension and an effort to avoid encoding general knowledge in the transformer network itself. We find significant and consistent improvements over both BERT-BASE and BERT-LARGE on multiple reading comprehension (MRC) and paraphrasing datasets. Specifically, our proposed model has strong empirical evidence as it obtains SOTA results on Natural Questions, a new benchmark MRC dataset, outperforming BERT-LARGE by 3 F1 points on short answer prediction. We also establish a new SOTA in HotpotQA, improving answer prediction F1 by 4 F1 points and supporting fact prediction by 1 F1 point. Moreover, we show that our pre-training approach is particularly effective when training data is limited, improving the learning curve by a large amount.