Most AI applications use machine learning (ML) to find patterns in massive amounts of data. The patterns are then used for making predictions.

Deepfakes (aka synthetic media) can spread misinformation and disinformation very effectively. The 2020 US election is just one example, but the use of deepfakes isn't limited to politics. In fact, representatives from a big brand company recently asked Avivah Litan, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner Research, what they could do if deepfakes were used to undermine the reputation of the brand or CEO. Unfortunately, her reply was "nothing," because there's no way they can stop the social sharing of content. "[T]he companies that have to solve this problem are the social media networks in terms of spreading deepfakes around the world," said Litan.

Chatbots are not a new development in the tech world, but over the course of the last few years they have exploded in popularity, going from simple scripts to complex Artificial Intelligence tools that will change the way we see and interact with the internet, both as individuals, and as large corporations and organizations. With industry leaders such as Facebook introducing chatbot services that have been used to create almost 300,000 individual bots, it is clear that chatbots are taking off in a big way, and the decision to incorporate them should be a no-brainer for any business looking to excel in the digital sphere. Keen to build off the excitement of new developments in the chatbot industry, Domino's Pizza introduced Dom the Pizza Bot. In a partnership with Facebook Messenger, potential customers are able to message Dom and request food with as little as a single word or all-encompassing emoji. This bot has captured the hearts of thousands of pizza-lovers with it's irreverent responses, and given a heart and soul to Domino's Pizza.

AI is, loosely speaking, a form of machine learning and Wang believes it needs to be a part of education in schools.

Building on last year's report, Algorithmia presents the 2021 enterprise trends in machine learning report. See what's happening in the world of ML!

In this post we explore how machine learning and statistical modeling can aid creative decision makers in tackling these questions at a global scale.

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Despite the progress made in recent years in addressing natural language understanding (NLU) challenges, the majority of this progress remains to be concentrated on resource-rich languages like English. This work focuses on Persian language, one of the widely spoken languages in the world, and yet there are few NLU datasets available for this rich language. The availability of high-quality evaluation datasets is a necessity for reliable assessment of the progress on different NLU tasks and domains. We introduce ParsiNLU, the first benchmark in Persian language that includes a range of high-level tasks -- Reading Comprehension, Textual Entailment, etc. These datasets are collected in a multitude of ways, often involving manual annotations by native speakers. This results in over 14.5$k$ new instances across 6 distinct NLU tasks. Besides, we present the first results on state-of-the-art monolingual and multi-lingual pre-trained language-models on this benchmark and compare them with human performance, which provides valuable insights into our ability to tackle natural language understanding challenges in Persian. We hope ParsiNLU fosters further research and advances in Persian language understanding.

Teddy Dief is good at keeping secrets. They helped ignite the indie game scene in 2016 as a co-designer on Hyper Light Drifter, and ever since, their follow-up project has been highly anticipated by fans of that game's neon-infused vibe. Meanwhile, Dief has been cobbling together a global team of artists, musicians and programmers, quietly building something known as the Palmtree Project, or simply . For years, they've kept quiet. Dief and their collaborators at Palmtree Team unveiled We Are OFK, a musical, interactive series set to launch in the spring of 2021.

U.S. Special Operations Command hopes to increasingly use artificial intelligence and machine learning in all aspects of warfare, …