Since the advent of the consumer drone (not so long ago, really), making a purchasing decision around new flying machine has involved weighing a list of compromises. You're going to have a big drone that's tough to maneuver. Your footage will look like garbage. Want something easy to fly? You're getting a glorified toy that will fall apart in a light breeze. DJI, the world's leading manufacturer of consumer drones, tried to solve this last year with the Mavic Pro.

Getty Images is embracing artificial intelligence, starting with a way to help publishers pick photos. Today, the photo agency debuted a tool that uses AI to analyze a story and suggest photos that might go along with it depending on the text and content. The tool, called Panels, uses natural language processing--a term for how computers can learn to "read" human words, phrases and sentences--to then match a story based on keywords, images, captions and other criteria. Publishers also will then have access to custom filters and a self-improving algorithm to move around keywords or select images through a more human-driven process. Here's how it works: When someone enters in the URL for a story or copies and pastes in the text, Panels will analyze the words before suggesting people, places and things that appear in the story after weighing different options based on frequency and relevance.

Sarah Jeong, a technology journalist hired by the New York Times and vilified online for tweets comparing "dumbass f****** white people" to dogs and saying they would "all go extinct soon", has been targeted for harassment by dishonest trolls, her former employer has claimed. Editors at The Verge, an online tech magazine, denounced what they called "disingenuous" criticism of Ms Jeong by "people acting in bad faith". The senior writer had been the victim of a Gamergate-style campaign designed to "divide and conquer by forcing newsrooms to disavow their colleagues", they suggested. Ms Jeong, 30, posted a string of offensive and apparently racist messages including "#CancelWhitePeople" and "white men are bulls***" up to five years ago. After being uncovered they quickly spread and were picked up by conservative media including the Daily Caller and Gateway Pundit websites.

I came to thinking about another benefit for ReLU, which deals with the "thresholding" behavior of the ReLU. My interpretation has to do with the dot product in convolutional neural networks. As everyone knows, when the kernel is slid over its input window, it computes the dot product as with vectors. The process of convolution can be interpreted as looking for a specific pattern throughout an image. Now, the only thing that affects the dot product's sign is the angle between the two vectors--in this case, the kernel and its window.

Interest in artificial intelligence is at'fever pitch', according to the technology market research company IDC. If measured in money, the heat will reach almost 20 billion this year – that's the dollar amount IDC forecasts that companies will spend on AI and cognitive computing. But in fact, the temperature around these technologies has been rising for some time. Many industries, including banking, manufacturing and healthcare are scrambling to get involved. Top of the pile will be retail which IDC says will outspend all others on AI this year.

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