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Why are Marketers All Talking about AI Now? – APD – Medium

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"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment." The question for business leaders and marketing professionals is not'if' artificial intelligence will cause a fundamental shift in how we conduct business and talk to our customers. Just look at the rise of Programmatic, sophisticated bid management platforms and algorithms such as Google's RankBrain.


Four-Armed Marimba Robot Uses Deep Learning to Compose Its Own Music

IEEE Spectrum Robotics

The Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, led by Gil Weinberg, has a reputation for doing incredible musical things with robots, with a mix of creativity and technical expertise in robotics and AI. We've seen projects like a cybernetic second arm for a drummer, a cybernetic third arm (!) for a drummer, and a bunch of interesting research on ways that robots can dynamically collaborate with humans in the context of improvisational music. That last thing usually features Shimon, a four-armed expressive robotic marimba player, which can analyze music in real time and improvise along with human performers. It's an impressive thing to watch, but Shimon's talents were mostly restricted to riffing on what other human musicians were doing. Now, Shimon has leveraged deep learning to create structured and coherent and totally unique compositions of its very own.


What is: machine learning? - Phrasee

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And yet hardly anyone we know has a robot butler yet! Because, as we discussed in our previous post, "What is: artificial intelligence", higher-level A.I. technology (like robot butlers) is still a long way off. What we have instead – for the time being at least – are highly specialised programs capable of completing specific tasks with amazing efficiency and accuracy. If the machines behind these technologies didn't improve at the tasks they were programmed to complete, those technologies would most likely suck. As Tech Target defines it, "Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence (A.I.) that provides computers with the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed."


Google AI polices newspaper comments - BBC News

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The New York Times is enabling comments on more of its online articles because of an artificial intelligence tool developed by Google. The software, named Perspective, helps identify "toxic" language, allowing the newspaper's human moderators to focus on non-offensive posts more quickly. Its algorithms have been trained by feeding them millions of posts previously vetted by the team. By contrast, several other news sites have shut their comments sections. Popular Science, Motherboard, Reuters, National Public Radio, Bloomberg and The Daily Beast are among those to have stopped allowing the public to post their thoughts on their sites, in part because of the cost and effort required to vet them for obscene and potentially libellous content. The BBC restricts comments to a select number of its stories for the same reasons, but as a result many of them end up being complaints about the selection.


indrajithi/mgc-django

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Music is categorized into subjective categories called genres. With the growth of the internet and multimedia systems applications that deal with the musical databases gained importance and demand for Music Information Retrieval (MIR) applications increased. Musical genres have no strict definitions and boundaries as they arise through a complex interaction between the public, marketing, historical, and cultural factors. This is Web Application that Classify Music in to genres. Our web application is written in Python using Django framework.


Getting up to speed on AI - Banking Exchange

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These terms--just now coming into the banking vernacular--can be confusing, especially since they are all subsets of the equally dense term artificial intelligence or AI. It behooves bankers to make the effort to get a handle on what they mean, how they are interrelated, and, most important, what potential they offer to improve customer relationships, reduce fraud, beef up operational efficiency, reduce costs, and, ultimately, add to revenues. Through a number of interviews with Banking Exchange, bankers, analysts, and a prominent futurist paint a picture of what AI and its various subsets will mean to the banking industry. "AI is making it possible for customers to engage with companies in more ways than ever before through voice, gesture recognition, video, and chat, while opening up possibilities to serve customers beyond their own digital properties," says Brad Stewart, senior vice-president, head of product, AI Enterprise Solutions, at Wells Fargo. "We think these will continue to get even more sophisticated. Projects range from systems that can spot payments fraud or misconduct by employees, to technology that can make more personal recommendations on financial products to clients."


How to use Google Home to stream video to your TV and music to your speakers

PCWorld

Google Home's built-in speaker is merely passable, and the smart-home device doesn't have a display at all. But you can use voice commands to stream music to better speakers and to stream video to your TV. The keys are Google's Google Cast and Android TV technologies. Google Cast is a media-streaming protocol that can be found in Google's own Chromecast (audio and video), Chromecast Audio (audio only), and numerous third-party products. Android TV is a smart TV platform present in various media-streaming boxes and TVs, including models from Nvidia, Xiaomi, Sony, Sharp, and Philips.


How Alphabet's AI Robot Is Helping The New York Times Replace Its Public Editor

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They are the Grey Lady's comment moderators, and their goal is to maintain online civility in the hallowed digital pages of the 166-year-old newspaper. Civility, that is, for 10% of the Times' articles–for only that percentage of stories on nytimes.com As it is, the Times receives 12,000 comments each day. Jigsaw's new offices–in a much cooler part of town than the the Times–sit atop an artisanal ice cream shop in Chelsea Market. Jigsaw is Alphabet's tech incubator and focuses on widespread digital problems, like online harassment and terrorist recruiting.


Why Hasn't Online Dating Made It Onscreen?

NPR Technology

The technology around us has made its way into all kinds of movies. But there's one movie genre it hasn't been able to infiltrate -- the romantic comedy. The technology around us has made its way into all kinds of movies. But there's one movie genre it hasn't been able to infiltrate -- the romantic comedy. Because so many of us hate it.


iQiyi is developing AI technology to add to its video streaming service - AllChinaTech

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Everyone is talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the tech industry, and China's most popular Netflix-like video streaming service iQiyi is sparing no effort to secure its leading position in the industry by applying AI technology to its service. Tang Xing, iQiyi's chief technology officer, announced last week at the iQiyi Technology & Entertainment World Conference in Beijing that the entertainment company is setting up an innovation lab to develop AI technology. He stressed that the company's AI strategies include improving user experience and optimizing commercialization. "A massive amount of content, large user base, and strong cloud computing power have made the online video industry enter the AI entertainment era at a faster pace," said Tang. He said that iQiyi has developed multiple AI-driven applications based on technologies such as natural language processing (NLP), and pattern and image recognition.