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NLP Classification with Universal Language Model Fine-tuning (ULMFiT)

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Text classification is one of the important applications of NLP. Applications such as Sentiment Analysis and Identifying spam, bots, and offensive comments come under Text Classification. Until now, the approaches used for solving these problems included building Machine Learning or Deep Learning models from scratch, training them on your text data, and fine-tuning it with hyperparameters. Even though such models give decent results for applications like classifying whether a movie review is positive or negative, they may perform terribly if things become more ambiguous because most of the time there's just not enough amount of labeled data to learn from. Isn't the Imagenet using the same approach to classify the images?


Methods and Plugins to Spot Deepfakes and AI-Generated Text

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With the emergence of incredibly powerful machine learning technologies, such as Deepfakes and Generative Neural Networks, it is much easier now to spread false information. In this article, we will briefly introduce deepfakes and generative neural networks, as well as a few ways to spot AI-generated content and protect yourself against misinformation. I have many elderly relatives and some middle-aged relatives that just aren't well-versed with technology. Some of these people believe nearly everything they read, or at least believe it enough to share it on social media. While that doesn't sound so bad, it depends on what you are sharing.


The 3rd Generation Echo Dot is now on sale on Amazon and you can now get it in a plum colour

Daily Mail - Science & tech

If you're a fan of Amazon's family of devices, then you're sure to love the 3rd Generation Echo Dot- Amazon's most popular smart speaker. Now reduced on Amazon to a tempting ยฃ29.99, there has never been a better time to invest in one yourself and see what the fuss is about. The voice-controlled smart speaker with Alexa can be added to any room in your home. Simply plug in the device, connect to your wifi with the Alexa App on your smartphone, and ask away for music, news, information and more. The certified refurbished Echo Dot normally retails for ยฃ44.99, but you can now save an additional 33 per cent off.


https://www.anandtech.com/show/15990/hot-chips-2020-live-blog-intels-raja-koduri-keynote-200pm-pt

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A subreddit committed to intelligent understanding of the hypothetical moment in time when artificial intelligence progresses to the point of greater-than-human intelligence, radically changing civilization. This community studies the creation of superintelligence-- and predict it will happen in the near future, and that ultimately, deliberate action ought to be taken to ensure that the Singularity benefits humanity. The technological singularity, or simply the singularity, is a hypothetical moment in time when artificial intelligence will have progressed to the point of a greater-than-human intelligence. Because the capabilities of such an intelligence may be difficult for a human to comprehend, the technological singularity is often seen as an occurrence (akin to a gravitational singularity) beyond which the future course of human history is unpredictable or even unfathomable. The first use of the term "singularity" in this context was by mathematician John von Neumann.


Microsoft's new Flight Simulator was worth the wait

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โ€ฆ the only way to do that is to use machine learning instead of placing every object by hand โ€” youโ€™ll still find plenty of oddness in the world, too.


Deciphering Reinforced Learning for Hybrid Controls in Robots

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Experienced Content writer with SEO content experience. Recently, when I was watching the Terminator: Dark Fate (By the way, I was disappointed with the whole reboot kind of thing, for me, Judgement Day was the ultimate Terminator movie). Anyways back to our discussion, the movie made me felt that filmmakers, writers, and even some journalists put the robots in a bd light like they are some virus out to kill us all. But, the fact is the opposite of what we are being shown. Robots have been assisting us for quite long in the industrial upliftment.


OPINIONISTA: Will artificial intelligence herald publishing's winter of our discontent?

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"We are standing on the beach, watching a fast-approaching tsunami, and all that we have around us are a few pieces of driftwood. We can continue trying to build a shelter from the driftwood in the few seconds that we have remaining, or we can figure out how we are going to use the driftwood to ride the ineluctable wave." I thought of this analogy when I was at a recent meeting held between some of the key players in the book production industry in South Africa. I heard many complaints of how "various philanthropists are bypassing the official library chain in South Africa by establishing libraries", "the number of books that were being registered on an official registry are lower than previous years" and so on. In many ways, I could picture myself sitting in a meeting with key players in the music industry about 12 years ago, around the same time that the likes of Spotify were gaining traction, and they would have been having similar discussions focused on the future of music.


Optimizing Long-term Social Welfare in Recommender Systems: A Constrained Matching Approach

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Most recommender systems (RS) research assumes that a user's utility can be maximized independently of the utility of the other agents (e.g., other users, content providers). In realistic settings, this is often not true---the dynamics of an RS ecosystem couple the long-term utility of all agents. In this work, we explore settings in which content providers cannot remain viable unless they receive a certain level of user engagement. We formulate the recommendation problem in this setting as one of equilibrium selection in the induced dynamical system, and show that it can be solved as an optimal constrained matching problem. Our model ensures the system reaches an equilibrium with maximal social welfare supported by a sufficiently diverse set of viable providers. We demonstrate that even in a simple, stylized dynamical RS model, the standard myopic approach to recommendation---always matching a user to the best provider---performs poorly. We develop several scalable techniques to solve the matching problem, and also draw connections to various notions of user regret and fairness, arguing that these outcomes are fairer in a utilitarian sense.


Tracking down three billion litres of lost water

BBC News

You'd think that of all the leaks in the country, the one that pops up on the street where a professor of water systems lives would get fixed pretty quickly. But as Vanessa Speight will tell you, that's sadly not the case. "It just comes out of the pavement and runs down the road," says Prof Speight, an expert in drinking water quality at the University of Sheffield. It was roughly a year ago that she first reported the problem to her local water firm. Despite efforts to locate the source of the leak, the company has come up dry. "It's probably been six different times they've dug up the road," Prof Speight adds.


What robots want: Using machine-learning to teach effectively

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AI is having a moment. One need only casually scan the news each week to see that the topics of artificial intelligence and machine learning have grown like ivy, extending their tendrils into stories as varied as racial bias, hiring, and of course, identifying spiders. But for all the diverse applications of AI across our inboxes, magazines and evening news, few outside of the engineering community have a robust understanding of what the terms actually mean, or how the robots and algorithms we increasingly rely upon come to know how to do the complex jobs humans assign to them. For starters, the machines involved in machine learning are increasingly more likely to take the form of a disembodied hivemind than a humanoid assistant. Nearly 60 years after Rosie the robotic maid first enchanted American prime time television viewers on The Jetsons, robotic minds and algorithms instead are in demand within nearly every sector of business. Filling these machine minds with context and experience requires teaching and training.