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AI and Jobs: What's The Net Effect?

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However, unlike dire predictions of the past showing a future where AI takes more and more jobs, current projections show a more mixed picture, as it's becoming clear that the rise of AI will also create jobs, perhaps more than it eliminates. A lack of qualified experts will create exciting job opportunities but also create a somewhat murky future for companies that need experts to run AI-powered systems, according to research from both Gartner and O'Reilly. According to Gartner's research, AI will create more jobs than it eliminates by 2020. However, industries will be affected at different rates. The healthcare field, for example, will see a significant rise in jobs, as will education. Manufacturing labor, on the other hand, will likely be hit hard, as AI systems are able to eliminate many jobs in the field, and this trend show no signs of reversing.


Crossing The Digital Skills Gap

Forbes - Tech

The lack of computing skills has been a topic I've covered a number of times, with the skills shortage holding back developments in both data science and AI. The issue was nicely encapsulated in recent news that there were more vacancies for IT-related jobs than people looking for them in the United States. A number of attempts have been made to close this gap, including projects by both Google and NVIDIA that I've covered before. Putting their hat into the ring are open source giant Red Hat, who have recently teamed up with independent school Lord Wandsworth College and the University of Surrey to produce the Open Schools Coding Competition, which the consortium hope will inspire the next generation of coders. The competition is in its second year and has 10 schools competing.


Schools, fearing threats, look to facial recognition technology for additional security

FOX News

In this July 10, 2018 photo, a camera with facial recognition capabilities hangs from a wall while being installed at Lockport High School in Lockport, N.Y. The surveillance system that has kept watch on students entering Lockport schools for over a decade is getting a novel upgrade. Facial recognition technology soon will check each face against a database of expelled students, sex offenders and other possible troublemakers. It could be the start of a trend as more schools fearful of shootings consider adopting the technology, which has been gaining ground on city streets and in some businesses and government agencies. Just last week, Seattle-based digital software company RealNetworks began offering a free version of its facial recognition system to schools nationwide.


A Feature Selection Tool for Machine Learning in Python

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Feature selection, the process of finding and selecting the most useful features in a dataset, is a crucial step of the machine learning pipeline. Unnecessary features decrease training speed, decrease model interpretability, and, most importantly, decrease generalization performance on the test set. Frustrated by the ad-hoc feature selection methods I found myself applying over and over again for machine learning problems, I built a class for feature selection in Python available on GitHub. In this article we will walk through using the FeatureSelector on an example machine learning dataset. We'll see how it allows us to rapidly implement these methods, allowing for a more efficient workflow.


How will higher education adapt and be relevant in an era of AI and robots?

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But while it conveys change to the jobs market, its implications for higher education and society are paramount. If careers are changing, then it stands to reason that higher education needs to change along with it. Higher education finds itself at the very front of one of the most significant workplace shifts this century, and how it interprets and responds to that change to ensure everybody benefits will have a considerable impact not only on the global flow of students but the whole of society. As tomorrowland approaches, international educators should realise how key the classroom will be. Welcome to the machine Self-driving cars are a typical example of the way artificial intelligence is starting to replace humans in the workforce, says UK-based futurist Calum Chace. Replacing professional drivers not only makes economic sense โ€“ a driver can account for up to a half of a vehicle's operational costs โ€“ but self-driving cars have proven themselves to be significantly safer than humans.


Multi-View Fuzzy Logic System with the Cooperation between Visible and Hidden Views

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Multi-view datasets are frequently encountered in learning tasks, such as web data mining and multimedia information analysis. Given a multi-view dataset, traditional learning algorithms usually decompose it into several single-view datasets, from each of which a single-view model is learned. In contrast, a multi-view learning algorithm can achieve better performance by cooperative learning on the multi-view data. However, existing multi-view approaches mainly focus on the views that are visible and ignore the hidden information behind the visible views, which usually contains some intrinsic information of the multi-view data, or vice versa. To address this problem, this paper proposes a multi-view fuzzy logic system, which utilizes both the hidden information shared by the multiple visible views and the information of each visible view. Extensive experiments were conducted to validate its effectiveness.


Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, & Neural Networks Explained

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Artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning, and neural networks represent incredibly exciting and powerful machine learning-based techniques used to solve many real-world problems. For a primer on machine learning, you may want to read this five-part series that I wrote. While human-like deductive reasoning, inference, and decision-making by a computer is still a long time away, there have been remarkable gains in the application of AI techniques and associated algorithms. The concepts discussed here are extremely technical, complex, and based on mathematics, statistics, probability theory, physics, signal processing, machine learning, computer science, psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. That said, this article is not meant to provide such a technical treatment, but rather to explain these concepts at a level that can be understood by most non-practitioners, and can also serve as a reference or review for technical folks as well. The primary motivation and driving force for these areas of study, and for developing these techniques further, is that the solutions required to solve certain problems are incredibly complicated, not well understood, nor easy to determine manually.


How should one start learning about AI and machine learning?

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AI is definitely the future. Machine learning, being the current application of artificial intelligence, is based on the idea to give the computer access to data and make them learn themselves. There are obviously various ways to start. There are two broad perspectives of getting into AI and machine learning; first, the API and second, the algorithms. These two prospects are hardly covered when you start an online course or you read a book.


Newbie's guide to Deep Learning โ€“ Towards Data Science

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I have been asked by quite a few people on how to start Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Here, I have curated a list of resources which I used and the path I took when I first learnt Machine Learning. I will keep on updating this article as I find more helpful resources. This will teach you the ropes of Machine Learning and will brush up your Linear Algebra skill a little bit. Make sure you do all the assignments and after you have completed the course, you will get a hold of Machine Learning concepts such as; Linear Regression, Logistics Regression, SVM, Neural Networks and K-means clustering.


An Absolute Guide to Take Off in Machine Learning โ€“ DataTurks: Data Annotations Made Super Easy โ€“ Medium

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Whenever we look at any online course, they take off with linear regression and this is a concept that most of us study write from our 8th grades, that is, an equation of a line initially and then gradually fitting of the best fit line. The application of this algorithm is used in machine learning as a way to predict results in the future given the feature vectors, x. So, why is the cost function a squared cost function? Why not have an absolute cost function? Well, there are plenty of reasons as to why we consider this, but when we derive this mathematically, we come across the concept of exponential families under general linear models, which generalize the notion of loss functions for any given model, and thus the square function is actually an exponential family curve.