Amazon launched a new music streaming service today into an already crowded field. SYDELL: To make this work, Amazon's Steve Boom says the company has been collecting data from millions of Alexa users about how they talk to it about music, and they've been programming Alexa to respond. SYDELL: Responding in a way that caters more to the way humans actually speak is a great way to open people up to the vastly expanding universe of artificial intelligence, says James McQuivey, an analyst with Forrester Research. Still, that's less than the leading standalone streaming service Spotify.

And a more advanced book, by the same authors: The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction (2009).

I find Keras a very useful and well done tool. It is perfect to start using Theano and it is really easily understandable and usable. Now, I realised a Keras model (using Theano interface), which works perfectly well and I would like to replicate it using only Theano code. Since Keras is actually using Theano code, I should be able, in principle, to do this. The neural net is a convolutional neural network for a one output regression task, with the following layers: conv2d, maxpool2d, conv2d, maxpool2d, dense, dense, output and using Adam optimizer.

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The society of intelligent agents now has a new member. His name is Ozlo, from the Palo Alto, California-based company of the same name. According to co-founder and CEO Charles Jolley, he's the only independent intelligent agent left, now that Samsung has scooped up Viv. But the key differentiator, Jolley told me, is that Ozlo is "the only assistant that can link together competing sources of information." As an example, Jolley recalled that he wanted "some steak and live music" while on a recent trip to Las Vegas.

I am unable to train a network using my pretrained wording embeddings as weights for input layer to LSTM. My word2vec embedding is trained on a larger corpus and the training corpus is a subset of it. My vocabulary for the task consists of some word2vec_vocab additional words in corpus. Test data: one hot vector with 1 at position w.r.t corpus(I am not using full dict for mapping, thus position indices differ.) Problem: Model overfitting on training data with increasing loss on validation set.

With the increasing volume of interactions with customers over social media channels, KLM Royal Dutch Airline is the first airline to test how artificial intelligence could assist customer service agents. "We have 100,000 mentions a week on social media," says Tjalling Smit, senior vice president of Digital at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. "We handle around 15,000 customer service cases a week and we answer our customers 24/7 in 10 different languages." As social channels proliferate, KLM makes sure it is present where its customers live online. "We were the first airline to allow customers to get their boarding passes and flight confirmation through Facebook Messenger," says Smit. KLM is piloting DigitalGenius' GPU-accelerated AI system that is integrated directly into KLM's Customer Relationship Management tool, and provides a layer of deep learning and artificial intelligence to service agents in real-time.

This story was delivered to BI Intelligence Apps and Platforms Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Google will sunset photo-sharing site Panoramio as it focuses on building out features in Google Maps, Digital Trends reports. For context, Panoramio allows users to upload and share their photos by location on Google Maps and Google Earth. However, Google would like users to upload their photos using its inbuilt tool instead.

News[N] Intel will add deep-learning instructions to its processors (lemire.me) I don't understand why you would bother though, I thought the massive parallel nature of GPUs was a major reason as to why they are used for deep learning, not solely because of the instructions.

"Deterministic" means that if you give the model inputs the same X values you always get the same Y values. So most machine learning models are deterministic. But the models are usually also very hard to examine. A common mistake is to use variables which don't correlate with the output. Garbage in will alway lead to garbage out.