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How can artificial intelligence promote inclusive prosperity for all?
While AI is poised to disrupt our work and lives, these technologies can be harnessed through wise regulation. So rather than replacing individuals, much AI should assist them in completing tasks that are more fulfilling, or by augmenting work that is often classified as professional. "Artificial intelligence (AI) has a proper substitutive role – it can ensure that difficult, dirty and dangerous work is done more and more by machines and less and less by human beings," says Professor Frank Pasquale from Brooklyn Law School."But Should people be taking more courses like computer science or technical fields that will help them understand AI better? "Yes, but I don't think they should replace existing courses.
Artificial Intelligence (AI): What it is and isn't - GGconversations with Mr. Jean-François Gagné
OTTAWA, Oct. 14, 2020 /CNW/ - Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, will be joined by Mr. Jean-François Gagné, Founder and CEO of Element AI. Their conversation will take place live on Thursday, October 15, 2020, at 1:30 p.m. EDT (French) and 2:30 p.m. EDT (English). Their conversation, entitled "Artificial Intelligence (AI): What it is and isn't" will focus on the roles that AI is expected to play in the near future in Canada and around the world. Mr. Gagné will also answer questions from Canadians from across the country. In addition to being the founder of Element AI, Mr. Gagné is an outspoken advocate of AI for Good and is actively involved in guiding AI's impact on business, people and society.
You influence recommendation algorithms just as much as they influence you -- here's how
Have you ever watched a video or movie because YouTube or Netflix recommended it to you? Or added a friend on Facebook from the list of "people you may know"? And how does Twitter decide which tweets to show you at the top of your feed? These platforms are driven by algorithms, which rank and recommend content for us based on our data. If you want to know when social media companies are trying to manipulate you into disclosing information or engaging more, the answer is always.
The Boys: Chris Evans as Homelander Deep Fake Makes the Supe Even More Terrifying
A deepfake video featuring Chris Evans as Homelander from Amazon's The Boys recently appeared on Reddit. The 13-second clip from Redditor d4danger includes multiple shots from The Boys, but with Chris Evans, who played Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as Antony Starr's Homelander. The irony of the MCU's Nazi-fighting Captain America's face on the body of Homelander -- who was in a relationship with an actual Nazi in Season 2 of The Boys -- was not lost on viewers. A deepfake video is a popular trend in which the likeness of one person replaces another with exacting detail. There have been several recent deepfakes involving cinematic superheroes, including one with Jon Krasinski taking Evans' place as Captain America, while another swaps Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman with Lynda Carter's version from the 1970s.
A very tiny alteration can help deepfakes escape detection
Last month, Sophie Wilmès, the prime minister of Belgium, appeared in an online video to tell her audience that the COVID-19 pandemic was linked to the "exploitation and destruction by humans of our natural environment." Whether or not these two existential crises are connected, the fact is that Wilmès said no such thing. Produced by an organization of climate change activists, the video was actually a deepfake, or a form of fake media created using deep learning. Deepfakes are yet another way to spread misinformation--as if there wasn't enough fake news about the pandemic already. Because new security measures consistently catch many deepfake images and videos, people may be lulled into a false sense of security and believe we have the situation under control.
Clever uses for your Amazon Echo - and security steps you can't skip
Amazon Echo can make your life easier. Amazon's Echo line is the reigning champ of the smart speaker world. Compared to virtual assistants like Google and Siri, Alexa works with far more gadgets and responds to significantly more commands than the competition. Plus, Echo devices are pretty inexpensive, starting around $25 for the Flex and $30 for the Dot when you catch it on sale. I bought six of these Echo Shows for Christmas presents.
[D] Neural networks from scratch in numpy?
Was wondering if any of you have done this. But I have heard of people building neural networks from the ground up in numpy? Apparently this is advantageous in that it's more math based and u get the fundamentals down of forward pass/backward pass and the math concepts behind it? Have any of you done this and what are your thoughts?
[D] Simple Questions Thread October 11, 2020
The predict function in Python is Y X * Beta, where Y is a column vector, X is the design matrix, and Beta is the column vector of parameters. You could definitely programmatically create the equation in the form that you want though. I don't what function/module you are using for your regression. Are you processing the data into polynomial features, then feeding that to a linear regression model? In this PolynomialFeatures preprocessing class, you can use the .get_feature_names()