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Artificial Intelligence And Education - TFOT

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In current times, AI or machine learning is implemented in our life. Every teacher in the world uses either a computer or a laptop in order to improve the educational experience and boost productivity. This is the main benefit of AI. In current times, every student has a sterling opportunity to receive a personalized schedule. AI tools allow teachers to evaluate the skills and knowledge of their students and identify their merits and flaws.


How to Make AI More Accessible

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By Rachel Thomas, Co-founder at fast.ai Q: What 3 things would you most like the general public to know about AI?


Kids, Meet Alexa, Your AI Mary Poppins?

NPR Technology

The new Amazon Echo Dot For Kids is that little green thing on the bedside table. The new Amazon Echo Dot For Kids is that little green thing on the bedside table. "Alexa, why is Pluto so awesome?" "Alexa, what is seven plus three?" "Alexa, who is Harry Potter?" "Alexa, I'm bored." "Alexa, where do babies come from?"* Families who have an artificially intelligent "smart speaker" at home like Amazon's Echo may be used to kids saying stuff like this.


Artificial Intelligence is the Future of Corporate Education - The Tech Edvocate

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Artificial intelligence is steadily making its way into the traditional classroom setting, but what about in corporate America? Employees are constantly giving continuing education lectures, seminars, and classes. At the moment, it seems like few of them take advantage of the artificial intelligence platforms that could better engage workers. Don't be surprised to find that this technological advancement is going to play a key role in the future of corporate education. On a recent study from the Boston Consulting Group and MIT Sloan Management Review, 83 percent of executives believe that artificial intelligence is a strategic priority for their business. If you aren't certain what artificial intelligence can offer a contemporary workplace, it's time to find out why upper management might decide to make the switch.


scikit-learn โ€“Test Predictions Using Various Models

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Scikit-learn has evolved as a robust library for machine learning applications in Python with support for a wide range of supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms. This course begins by taking you through videos on linear models; with scikit-learn, you will take a machine learning approach to linear regression. As you progress, you will explore logistic regression. Then you will build models with distance metrics, including clustering. You will also look at cross-validation and post-model workflows, where you will see how to select a model that predicts well.



A Deeper Look at Experience Replay

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Recently experience replay is widely used in various deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms, in this paper we rethink the utility of experience replay. It introduces a new hyper-parameter, the memory buffer size, which needs carefully tuning. However unfortunately the importance of this new hyper-parameter has been underestimated in the community for a long time. In this paper we did a systematic empirical study of experience replay under various function representations. We showcase that a large replay buffer can significantly hurt the performance. Moreover, we propose a simple O(1) method to remedy the negative influence of a large replay buffer. We showcase its utility in both simple grid world and challenging domains like Atari games.


A Non-parametric Multi-stage Learning Framework for Cognitive Spectrum Access in IoT Networks

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Given the increasing number of devices that is going to get connected to wireless networks with the advent of Internet of Things, spectrum scarcity will present a major challenge. Application of opportunistic spectrum access mechanisms to IoT networks will become increasingly important to solve this. In this paper, we present a cognitive radio network architecture which uses multi-stage online learning techniques for spectrum assignment to devices, with the aim of improving the throughput and energy efficiency of the IoT devices. In the first stage, we use an AI technique to learn the quality of a user-channel pairing. The next stage utilizes a non-parametric Bayesian learning algorithm to estimate the Primary User OFF time in each channel. The third stage augments the Bayesian learner with implicit exploration to accelerate the learning procedure. The proposed method leads to significant improvement in throughput and energy efficiency of the IoT devices while keeping the interference to the primary users minimal. We provide comprehensive empirical validation of the method with other learning based approaches.


AI classroom activity: Machine learning

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In my first Teacher article, I discussed the importance of teaching artificial intelligence (AI) to schoolchildren. Based on my experience, the key to demystifying AI is to emphasise that in almost all real-world situations AI is nothing more than imitation of human-like behaviours. Last week, we looked at an unplugged activity that illustrated how we could build a simple program to perform facial recognition. In this article, I will discuss how to build an AI system that can exhibit another behaviour that is often associated with human intelligence: learning. Humans have a superb natural ability to learn from experience. Everyone who has taken care of a child can tell you the sense of amazement observing a toddler taking their first step walking and saying their first word.


New Decimal Systems - Great Sandbox for Data Scientists and Mathematicians

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We illustrate pattern recognition techniques applied to an interesting mathematical problem: The representation of a number in non-conventional systems, generalizing the familiar base-2 or base-10 systems. The emphasis is on data science rather than mathematical theory, and the style is that of a tutorial, requiring minimum knowledge in mathematics or statistics. However, some off-the-beaten-path, state-of-the-art number theory research is discussed here, in a way that is accessible to college students after a first course in statistics. This article is also peppered with mathematical and statistical oddities, for instance the fact that there are units of information smaller than the bit. You will also learn how the discovery process works, as I have included research that I thought would lead me to interesting results, but did not. In all scientific research, only final, successful results are presented, while actually most of the research leads to dead-ends, and is not made available to the reader.