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How natural language processing creates value in compliance Inside Financial & Risk
As a bridge between humans and computers, the use of natural language processing in compliance demonstrates how this branch of AI is adding value across the financial services industry. Natural language processing (NLP) falls under the wider umbrella of artificial intelligence (AI) and essentially uses algorithms to help computers understand the everyday language of humans -- both spoken and written. As such, NLP is a fundamental bridge enabling interaction between computers and humans, and allowing machines to understand commands and input from humans in a seamless and streamlined manner. Once a machine can understand a human's everyday means of communication, the potential to add value becomes almost limitless. The Thomson Reuters Center for Cognitive Computing is constantly researching ways to perfect and advance different areas of AI, including machine perception, reasoning, knowledge management, and human-computer interfaces.
Artificial Intelligence: Powerful Examples Show How it Can Drive Your Marketing Strategy Magic Logix
Unless you've been marooned on a deserted island as devoid of modern technology as Robinson Crusoe's, you can't have failed to notice the arrival of Artificial Intelligence in virtually every aspect of our lives. No longer the stuff of futuristic movies, AI is everywhere today. In fact, even when we're not conscious of it, AI has become such a pervading presence in our everyday lives, it's hard to turn on a computer, TV, phone or even a clothing iron without the strong possibility that "smart" technology is involved. Giant corporations, such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Netflix, and a plethora of others employ AI in their products and services to simplify the lives of their clients. One area where AI has particularly made significant inroads in recent years is in the field of marketing.
Wanted: Robot wrangler. No experience required.
"Wranglers wanted for growing fleets of robots. Your responsibilities will include evaluating robot performance, providing real-time analysis and support for problems. "You must be analytical, detail-oriented, friendly - and ready to walk. Even if this particular advert has not yet appeared, some are already carrying out the role. Brandon Rees, 32, used to make food deliveries.
'The stench of it stays with everybody': inside the Super Mario Bros movie
Dennis Hopper was not happy. It was the summer of 1992, a few weeks into shooting Super Mario Bros: The Motion Picture and the atmosphere on set was febrile. Endless rewrites and script splices had scrambled the story and dialogue. Producers, writers and investors were all working at cross purposes with the directors, the British couple Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton. On set, there were 300 extras waiting to film the next scene. The lines Hopper was about to deliver had been changed at the last moment, and not for the first time. He was dressed as a humanoid dinosaur, heavily made up in the sweltering North Carolina heat, his hair gelled into a weird row of reptilian spikes. "We're in the bedroom of King Koopa's skyscraper; it's a big set," recalls actor and co-star Richard Edson.
Learning through deterministic assignment of hidden parameters
Fang, Jian, Lin, Shaobo, Xu, Zongben
Supervised learning frequently boils down to determining hidden and bright parameters in a parameterized hypothesis space based on finite input-output samples. The hidden parameters determine the attributions of hidden predictors or the nonlinear mechanism of an estimator, while the bright parameters characterize how hidden predictors are linearly combined or the linear mechanism. In traditional learning paradigm, hidden and bright parameters are not distinguished and trained simultaneously in one learning process. Such an one-stage learning (OSL) brings a benefit of theoretical analysis but suffers from the high computational burden. To overcome this difficulty, a two-stage learning (TSL) scheme, featured by learning through deterministic assignment of hidden parameters (LtDaHP) was proposed, which suggests to deterministically generate the hidden parameters by using minimal Riesz energy points on a sphere and equally spaced points in an interval. We theoretically show that with such deterministic assignment of hidden parameters, LtDaHP with a neural network realization almost shares the same generalization performance with that of OSL. We also present a series of simulations and application examples to support the outperformance of LtDaHP
Speaker Clustering With Neural Networks And Audio Processing
Jumelle, Maxime, Sakmeche, Taqiyeddine
Speaker clustering is the task of differentiating speakers in a recording. In a way, the aim is to answer "who spoke when" in audio recordings. A common method used in industry is feature extraction directly from the recording thanks to MFCC features, and by using well-known techniques such as Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) and Hidden Markov Models (HMM). In this paper, we studied neural networks (especially CNN) followed by clustering and audio processing in the quest to reach similar accuracy to state-of-the-art methods.
What Makes Good Synthetic Training Data for Learning Disparity and Optical Flow Estimation?
Mayer, Nikolaus, Ilg, Eddy, Fischer, Philipp, Hazirbas, Caner, Cremers, Daniel, Dosovitskiy, Alexey, Brox, Thomas
The finding that very large networks can be trained efficiently and reliably has led to a paradigm shift in computer vision from engineered solutions to learning formulations. As a result, the research challenge shifts from devising algorithms to creating suitable and abundant training data for supervised learning. How to efficiently create such training data? The dominant data acquisition method in visual recognition is based on web data and manual annotation. Yet, for many computer vision problems, such as stereo or optical flow estimation, this approach is not feasible because humans cannot manually enter a pixel-accurate flow field. In this paper, we promote the use of synthetically generated data for the purpose of training deep networks on such tasks.We suggest multiple ways to generate such data and evaluate the influence of dataset properties on the performance and generalization properties of the resulting networks. We also demonstrate the benefit of learning schedules that use different types of data at selected stages of the training process.
A New Kanye West Dating Service Promises Love Free From Taylor Swift Stans
The galaxy of extremely niche dating sites has gained a new star--one that promises to help you find someone who loves you like Kanye loves Kanye. That's right, lonely singles are no longer confined to finding each other based on interests like farming or the goth aesthetic. With the release of Yeezy Dating, fans of Kanye West are one step closer to finding someone to argue with about the proper breakdown of their Kanye madness bracket. Slated to launch sometime later this month, the Yeezy Dating website is pretty sparse at the moment, featuring a brief explainer noting that the site is "for fans of the genius Mr. Kanye West." However the site, created through a crowdfunding campaign launched by 21-year-old Yeezus stan Harry Dry, has a relatively active Instagram presence.
UiPath Human-to-Robot Chat Assistance with Humley
UiPath is creating a strong ecosystem of partners to help deliver increasingly efficient enterprise RPA deployment by ensuring that a rich marketplace of leading partner technologies can offer a powerful, pre-integrated, value-added function to the already highly successful UiPath solutions in place. "Conversational Natural Language engagement is a huge growth area for both personal and business use across the globe," said Boris Krumrey, Chief Robotics Officer of UiPath. "Speech and text driven access to initiate and operate robotic process automations is a new channel of user interaction to RPA using conversation. Humley has demonstrated how a virtual assistant can be deployed to support RPA management and build Voice or Chat User Interfaces which will help customers innovate in regards to the'how and where' they access robotic process automations. What we like about Humley is that it works with other leading technologies such as IBM Watson and Microsoft Cognitive Services."