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YWCA Boulder County Announces Google JAM Session Series to Kick Off STEM E3 Program - My Social Good News

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Press Release – BOULDER, CO – September 6, 2019 – YWCA Boulder County, one of the first two YWCA branches in the country to be awarded a grant by Google to increase black and Latina students' access to computer science and artificial intelligence education, has announced a Google JAM session series to kick off the organization's STEM E3 program. Three JAM sessions will be offered from 1– 6 p.m. at Google with the first session scheduled for September 16, 2019 (followed by sessions on October 14, 2019 and November 11, 2019). The program will provide an opportunity for young women of color between the ages of 9 to 14 to be introduced to a STEM E3 (Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship) program, which works with young women and girls in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). YWCA STEM E3 curriculum helps young women and girls of color build the confidence and skills required for future careers in computer science and artificial intelligence. "We're thrilled to have been chosen as one of two YWCAs in the country to launch the pilot STEM E3 program," said Debbie Pope, CEO of YWCA Boulder County.


Montréal.AI Academy: AI 101

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"(AI) will rank among our greatest technological achievements, and everyone deserves to play a role in shaping it." Encompassing all facets of AI, the General Secretariat of MONTREAL.AI introduces, with authority and insider knowledge: "Artificial Intelligence 101: The First World-Class Overview of AI for the General Public". AI opens up a world of new possibilities. This AI 101 tutorial harnesses the fundamentals of artificial intelligence for the purpose of providing participants with powerful AI tools to learn, deploy and scale AI. Theoretical Physics in 1 (one) year, followed by a Master's degree in Government Policy Analysis (1998) and a Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering (Space Technology) (2000).


Face recognition and OCR processing of 300 million records from US yearbooks

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A yearbook is a type of a book published annually to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school. Our team at MyHeritage took on a complex project: extracting individual pictures, names, and ages from hundreds of thousands of yearbooks, structuring the data, and creating a searchable index that covers the majority of US schools between the years 1890–1979 -- more than 290 million individuals. In this article I'll describe what problems we encountered during this project and how we solved them. First of all, let me explain why we needed to tackle this challenge. MyHeritage is a genealogy platform that provides access to almost 10 billion historical records.


Exponential Guide to the Future of Learning - Singularity University

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"I think the goal of education is to learn about the world and different types of knowledge, [to] find what your passion or passions are, and to learn by doing. Get involved with the world and try to change the world." At Singularity University, we envision a world where everyone has access to information, environments, and experiences that can build intelligence, knowledge, and skills for all people at all stages of their lives, both for personal fulfillment and to benefit society. Close your eyes and imagine what the future of learning might look like. Is it possible that instead of children going to school, the schools follow them wherever they go?


On Education PyTorch for Deep Learning with Python Bootcamp - all courses

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Learn how to use NumPy to format data into arrays Use pandas for data manipulation and cleaning Learn classic machine learning theory principals Use PyTorch Deep Learning Library for image classification Use PyTorch with Recurrent Neural Networks for Sequence Time Series Data Create state of the art Deep Learning models to work with tabular data Requirements Understanding of Python Basic Topics (data types,loops,functions) also Python OOP recommended Be able to work through basic derivative calculations Admin Permissions on your computer (ability to download our files) Welcome to the best online course for learning about Deep Learning with Python and PyTorch! PyTorch is an open source deep learning platform that provides a seamless path from research prototyping to production deployment. It is rapidly becoming one of the most popular deep learning frameworks for Python. Deep integration into Python allows popular libraries and packages to be used for easily writing neural network layers in Python. A rich ecosystem of tools and libraries extends PyTorch and supports development in computer vision, NLP and more.


MaxDecisions is A.I. & Machine Learning Software Company for Banks and FinTechs

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MaxDecisions, Inc. is expert in deploying A.I. and Machine Learning software and algorithms in Marketing, Risk and Operations can help you grow your lending portfolio. We have decades of online lending experience that can help you quickly launch portfolios with the latest technology. We specialize in creating artificial intelligence and machine learning softrware in fraud and credit risk management for small business and online consumer lenders. We build sophisticated underwriting models that's customized for your portfolio. Leveraging MaxDecisions' experience is your competitive advantage.


The expansion of chatbots in higher ed

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More and more colleges are deploying virtual assistants or chatbots to communicate with students on all aspects of college life, creating a virtual "one-stop-shop" for student queries. Colleges initially were deploying this technology only in specific areas, such as financial aid, IT services or the library. Now institutions are looking to deploy chatbots with much broader capability. For the companies that make this computer software that conducts text or voice-based conversations, this changing usage on campus marks a significant shift. This expansion happened naturally, said Mark McNasby, CEO and co-founder of chatbot company Ivy.ai.


Schools Need To Move To AI Driven Method: Kant IndianWeb2.com

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Schools in India need to move from Anglo-Saxon education system to artificial intelligence (AI) driven method of teaching, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Thursday. Less than 20 per cent graduates in India are employable, and therefore it is important to push for teaching of frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence in IITs and engineering colleges to increase their employability, Kant said an event here. "At the school level, India needs to move away from the Anglo-Saxon system of education to provide AI based personalized and adaptive learning opportunities for children. "Having said that, the Indian education system needs to be more innovative and driven by new tech, therefore, we are actively facilitating online learning at the government level," he said at Bertelsmann India Summit. The summit was designed to drive high-powered interactions with education ecosystem players – an exciting mix of policy makers, thought leaders, educators, investors among others.


Aristo A.I. scores 'A' on 8th-grade science test

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Could you score an'A' on an eighth-grade science test? If so, you're in the same league as Aristo, an artificial intelligence system whose remarkable language and logic skills highlight recent progress in the A.I. industry. For context: Four years ago, some 700 computer scientists competed for $80,000 to develop an A.I. that could merely pass an eighth-grade science test. None scored higher than 60 percent. But now, thanks to improved "language models" driven by neural networks, systems like Aristo are becoming much better at predicting language and understanding how to apply it to solve logic-based tasks. Aristo, as The New York Times notes, is built on a neural-network technology called Bert, developed by Google.


Q. If machine learning is so smart, how come AI models are such racist, sexist homophobes? A. Humans really suck

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For this research, computer scientists at the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California, Los Angeles, probed two state-of-the-art natural language systems: OpenAI's small GPT-2 model, which sports 124 million parameters, and Google's recurrent neural network [PDF] – referred to as LM_1B in the Cali academics' paper [PDF] – that was trained using the 1 Billion Word Language Benchmark. Machine-learning code, it seems, picks up all of its prejudices from its human creators: the software ends up with sexist, racist, and homophobic tendencies by learning from books, articles, and webpages subtly, or not so subtly, laced with our social and cultural biases. Multiple experiments have demonstrated that trained language models assume doctors are male, and are more likely to associate positive terms with Western names popular in Europe and America than African-American names, for instance. "Despite the fact that biases in language models are well-known, there is a lack of systematic evaluation metrics for quantifying and analyzing such biases in language generation," Emily Sheng, first author of the study and a PhD student at the USC, told The Register. And so, to evaluate the output of GPT-2 and LM_1B in a systematic way, the researchers trained two separate text classifiers, one to measure bias, and the other to measure sentiment.