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How Ed Tech Is Exploiting Students

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AMT is one of the many commercial services with which humans provide the raw material on which artificial intelligence is trained. Such developments should make us question the growing number of education-technology practices now in place at colleges across the country.


How Uncle SAM and #WhereMyChicken Twitter Chatbots Helped Brands

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These are for brands going beyond customer service, which was predominantly the reason for the businesses having a presence on Twitter. These case studies show that Twitter can be used for different key performance indicators such as branding, product discovery, transaction or ecommerce and post sales customer service. One of the reasons Twitter surprisingly works is because the platform's open content accessibility and shareability makes brand messages easily discoverable. Plus, Twitter's advertising products, such as DM video and image cards, make it easy to find bots. Now let's have a look at the live case studies and their main features, to see how brands are aligning them to their key performance indicators. If you're desperately googling for, or frantically picking up the phone to ask Mama about her ultimate secret recipe against red wine stains, you can now get help from "SAM", Samsung's digital stain advisor on Twitter.


Introduction to Computer Vision - Algorithmia Blog

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Using software to parse the world's visual content is as big of a revolution in computing as mobile was 10 years ago, and will provide a major edge for developers and businesses to build amazing products. Computer Vision is the process of using machines to understand and analyze imagery (both photos and videos). While these types of algorithms have been around in various forms since the 1960's, recent advances in Machine Learning, as well as leaps forward in data storage, computing capabilities, and cheap high-quality input devices, have driven major improvements in how well our software can explore this kind of content. Computer Vision is the broad parent name for any computations involving visual content – that means images, videos, icons, and anything else with pixels involved. A classical application of computer vision is handwriting recognition for digitizing handwritten content (we'll explore more use cases below). Any other application that involves understanding pixels through software can safely be labeled as computer vision.


The Era of Fake Video Begins

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In a dank corner of the internet, it is possible to find actresses from Game of Thrones or Harry Potter engaged in all manner of sex acts. Or at least to the world the carnal figures look like those actresses, and the faces in the videos are indeed their own. Everything south of the neck, however, belongs to different women. An artificial intelligence has almost seamlessly stitched the familiar visages into pornographic scenes, one face swapped for another. The genre is one of the cruelest, most invasive forms of identity theft invented in the internet era.


How artificial intelligence can help small business owners

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Nobody loves to work, and that's a fact. Of course, in the beginning, the strong flow of enthusiasm can give you the strength to start your own business in your own sweat and blood, but once it has been established the only thing that enthusiasm wants to do now is to sink into a nice comfy chair and let others take over. That's why already in the 1930s people have been searching for ways to hand off all the ‛heavy lifting' to the machines, although those ‛labor-saving devices' as referred to in advertisers from that time were merely infants – electric kettles and toasters – compared to their heirs in this modern age. People have been dreaming for centuries about a utopia in which machines would free us from the shackles of labor (of course, any man in the right mind knows that labor is something we need to be freed from) and today their prayers have finally been fulfilled in the form of artificial intelligence that can allow us to develop our creative side again. This might sound like a cheesy sci-fi movie (and maybe a pretty intimidating one) but it has been already proven that AI is very effective when it comes to performing automative repetitive tasks – in other words, those boring ones that you need to spend countless hours every week on as a small business owner.


[D] How to encourage competition and prevent "working together" in genetic algorithms • r/MachineLearning

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I got bored tonight and decided to write a genetic algorithm for dupl.io, You can select any tile you own every second, and this will increment it. Once it hits 5, it will take ownership of the 4 adjacent tiles, increment them, and remove ownership of the current tile. You can take over other land with this. Score is determined by the count of each tile added together.


[D] Machine Learning - WAYR (What Are You Reading) - Week 44 • r/MachineLearning

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This is a place to share machine learning research papers, journals, and articles that you're reading this week. If it relates to what you're researching, by all means elaborate and give us your insight, otherwise it could just be an interesting paper you've read. Please try to provide some insight from your understanding and please don't post things which are present in wiki. Preferably you should link the arxiv page (not the PDF, you can easily access the PDF from the summary page but not the other way around) or any other pertinent links. It is a paper on a form of reinforcement learning without extrinsic rewards.


[R] Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system [DeepMind] • r/MachineLearning

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That gets me wondering when talking about the evolution of instincts. Is it possible that that neurons respond to feedback mechanisms -- not in a conscious way, but as a response to recieving energy. If that were the case, don't you think that it's possible that neurons were fighting over who gets the animals attention, like when you listen to reason you activate certain parts of the brain. The neurons that get more attention are activated and given more energy, and if this continues for many generations, then those parts of the brain that don't get energy, kind of die off. Could it be possible that some neurons got greedy and started feeding an animal false information, just to get more energy?


How Random Forest Algorithm Works in Machine Learning

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This is one of the best introductions to Random Forest algorithm. The author introduces the algorithm with a real-life story and then provides applications in four different fields to help beginners learn and know more about this algorithm. To begin the article, the author highlights one advantage of Random Forest algorithm that excites him: that it can be used for both classification and regression problems. The author chose a classification task for this article, as this will be easier for a beginner to learn. Regression will be the application problem in the next, up-coming article.