The field of construction is well placed to benefit from the advent of machine learning and artificial intelligence. As part of the BIM 360 Project IQ Team at Autodesk, I've had the privilege of being a part of Autodesk's foray into machine learning for construction. This talk will focus on summarizing the developments in this space, and we'll cover some ways in which one can prepare to maximize value from this technology. The class has 2 sections. The first part provides a broad survey of some of the applications of AI and machine learning in construction, and the potential impact.

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Beginning in February, Microsoft plans to offer a new feature for young students: Immersive Reader dictation, a new feature within Office 365 apps for Windows and the Mac. As a parent of two elementary school students, though, I'm concerned this feature will be an unwelcome crutch. Microsoft is pushing dictation onto Word for Mac, iPhone, Outlook Desktop, OneNote iPad, and OneNote Mac. Even though I write about technology for a living, I'm sort of feeling my way through applying it toward parenting. Is a smart speaker an annoyance or a learning aid?

What we are looking at is a recommendation engine problem. Given the personal data you want to make the diet recommendation that are best suited for the person based on the data inserted. For creating this recommendation engine, you'll need data for personal details and appropriate recommendations. Based on this training data, you'll create the recommendation engine which will map the personal information to appropriate diet recommendations.

Microsoft and Alibaba have independently developed AI models that scored better than humans in a Stanford University reading comprehension test. This AI milestone was reached using the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD), which consists of over 10,000 question-and-answer pairs that apply to more than 500 Wikipedia articles. Alibaba's model achieved a score of 82.44, while the submission from Microsoft Research Asia bested that with a mark of 82.65. The human score for the SQuAD test is 82.304. Although that's a slim margin to claim superior performance, it represents the first time any natural language processing (NLP) software has been able to eclipse humans on this particular benchmark.

The tantalizing promise of Kano's Computer Kit Complete ($250 at Target and Kano's website) is made clear right on the front of its brightly colored packaging. This charming kit for kids contains everything you need to build a Raspberry Pi 3-powered PC, explaining the basic concepts behind every step of building a computer, then seals the deal with a friendly operating system designed from the ground up to teach children the thought processes crucial to coding. And every step is fun! I didn't build the Kano Computer Kit Complete myself. I haven't even touched its keyboard once.

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To learn is to broaden, to experience more, to snatch new aspects of life for yourself. To refuse to learn or to be relieved at not having to learn is to commit a form of suicide; in the long run, a more meaningful type of suicide than the mere ending of physical life. Knowledge is not only power; it is happiness, and being taught is the intellectual analog of being loved. Fans estimate that the erudite polymath Isaac Asimov authored nearly 500 full-length books during his life. Even if some that "don't count" are removed from the list -- anthologies he edited, short science books he wrote for young people and so on -- Asimov's output still reaches into the many hundreds of titles.

The U.S. company - which has faced regulatory pressure in Europe over issues ranging from privacy to antitrust - said it would open three "community skills hubs" in Spain, Poland and Italy as well as investing 10 million euros ($12.2 million) in France through its artificial intelligence research facility.

Labeled data used for training activity recognition classifiers are usually limited in terms of size and diversity. Thus, the learned model may not generalize well when used in real-world use cases. Semi-supervised learning augments labeled examples with unlabeled examples, often resulting in improved performance. However, the semi-supervised methods studied in the activity recognition literatures assume that feature engineering is already done. In this paper, we lift this assumption and present two semi-supervised methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to learn discriminative hidden features. Our semi-supervised CNNs learn from both labeled and unlabeled data while also performing feature learning on raw sensor data. In experiments on three real world datasets, we show that our CNNs outperform supervised methods and traditional semi-supervised learning methods by up to 18% in mean F1-score (Fm).