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The combination of human and artificial intelligence will define humanity's future
Bryan Johnson is the founder and chief executive officer of the neuroprosthesis developer Kernel and the founder of OS Fund and Braintree. Through the past few decades of summer blockbuster movies and Silicon Valley products, artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly familiar and sexy, and imbued with a perversely dystopian allure. What's talked about less, and has also been dwarfed in attention and resources, is human intelligence (HI). In its varied forms -- from the mysterious brains of octopuses and the swarm-minds of ants to Go-playing deep learning machines and driverless-car autopilots -- intelligence is the most powerful and precious resource in existence. Our own minds are the most familiar examples of a phenomenon characterized by a great deal of diversity.
A night at the AI jazz club
It's a Wednesday night in North East London and upstairs at the Vortex Jazz Club the machines are calling the shots. The human spectators are jiggling happily in their seats, and the musicians are undeniably flesh-and-blood, sweating and straining at their instruments. But the music itself is the product of electronic brains -- trained to soak up the music of great artists and strain out new melodies. This is "the first concert consisting almost entirely of music composed by artificial intelligence" says professor Geraint Wiggins of Queen Mary's University at the beginning of the evening. In about a few minutes we'll be listening to Medieval chants, Baroque chorales, and jazz and pop -- all made by artificial intelligence with the help of computer scientists who programmed the evening's "composers."
[Discussion] Join us on /r/LearnMachineLearning! • /r/MachineLearning
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[Research] Hybrid computing using a neural network with dynamic external memory • /r/MachineLearning
The neural Turing machine16 (NTM) was the predecessor to the DNC described in this work. It used a similar architecture of neural network controller with read–write access to a memory matrix, but differed in the access mechanism used to interface with the memory. In the NTM, content-based addressing was combined with location-based addressing to allow the network to iterate through memory locations in order of their indices (for example, location n followed by n 1 and so on). This allowed the network to store and retrieve temporal sequences in contiguous blocks of memory. However, there were several drawbacks.
The games that feel more like watching Twin Peaks than playing
There's not much to do in Virginia. I'm sitting in a diner watching as a waitress drops the bill on the table and my FBI partner gets up to leave. I pick up the bill, then – jump! I'm standing outside a house watching as a man opens the door and my partner holds up her badge. I hold up my own, then – jump!
How the house of the future will speak to you
Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display
Amazon launches for-pay streaming music service
Amazon is taking on Apple and Spotify in the streaming music market - and hopes undercutting them will give it the edge. Amazon Music Unlimited will cost 8 per month, or 80 a year, for members of Amazon's 99-a-year Prime loyalty program. Non-Prime members will pay 10 a month, the same monthly fee charged by Spotify and Apple Music, while owners of Amazon's Echo smart speaker will be able to get the unlimited music service on one device for 4 per month. This image provided by Amazon Music shows a display of Amazon Music Unlimited, a paid streaming music service Amazon is launching. The music service is being positioned to compete against existing services such as Spotify and Apple Music.
[Discussion] Summer Projects for math undergraduates in Machine Learning • /r/MachineLearning
I just wanted to ask if such a thing happens where in Math undergraduates (senior) are doing internships in ML. Consider my example, like I have taken courses in Statistics (two in number covering theoretical statistics ('statistical inference' by casella and berger)), linear algebra, calc apart from other pure math courses(eg.analysis) and have had experience with specifically use of Neural networks in ML in my last summer (you can pretty much sum that up by Neural Networks and Deep Learning and recently I had experience in appying RNNs (used LSTMs anyway) for time series data (a semester project). So is it, that it is too soon (like I haven't had formal intro to Statistical Learning or Optimization yet) for me to get into any "math" intensive i don't know research/project in ML and only masters and phd people do this kind of stuff or are math people (undergrads) getting into ML which is not just all about application? I guess by a math undergraduate I also mean that he/she is not your classic programmer/cs major. As in he/she is able to implement anything in say python (or R) but he/she just would be much more interested in the mathematical intricacies of the models itself rather than cool implementations and usage of these algorithms on real data and analysing them.
[Discussion] What do you use for Neural Network Diagramming • /r/MachineLearning
I'm currently writing a couple of papers which use CNNs and one thing I really struggle with is making nice looking diagrams that are actually clear. I've seen figures in other papers (for example, picturing convolutional layers as cubes, stuff like that) that seem to be very clear but I haven't really figured out 1) what they're using to make those and 2) there is not really an agreed upon style for enumerating and illustrating network design. Does anyone have any light to shed here, is there a drawing tool (LaTeX compatible) that is good for this kind of thing or is it just lots and lots of tikz?