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It's Baa-rack! Sheep can learn to recognize Obama from photos

The Japan Times

PARIS – Sheep learned to recognize Barack Obama after seeing his photo a few dozen times, says a study that suggested our four-legged friends may be smarter than we think. The former U.S. president was one of four celebrities used in a test of the woolly creatures' face-recognition skills, along with Harry Potter actress Emma Watson, British TV host Fiona Bruce and American actor Jake Gyllenhaal, the research team said. "We chose these people because there were lots of images of each person available online, both front-on and taken at different angles," said study co-author Jennifer Morton of the University of Cambridge. "We also chose them because we were sure that our sheep had never met them in person." Morton and a team trained eight sheep to recognize the faces from a frontal photo of each of them.


Wednesday's TV highlights: 'Mr. Robot' on USA

Los Angeles Times

Riverdale When an article written by Alice (Madchen Amick) sparks tensions, Jughead (Cole Sprouse) steps into the role of peacekeeper. Also, Betty (Lili Reinhart) turns to Archie (KJ Apa) for support when she gets a threatening ultimatum. Empire Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) and others try to cover for Lucious' (Terrence Howard) memory problem. Nature A cheetah mother raises five newborns, teaching them how to hunt on the African plains. Dynasty The growing rivalry between Fallon and Cristal (Elizabeth Gillies, Nathalie Kelley) intensifies when they compete to be on the cover of a magazine, while Steven's (James Mackay) former boyfriend suddenly shows up.


HPE Introduces New Set of Artificial Intelligence Platforms and Services

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HPE Rapid Software Installation for AI: HPE introduced an integrated hardware and software solution, purpose-built for high performance computing and deep learning applications. Based on the HPE Apollo 6500 system in collaboration with Bright Computing to enable rapid deep learning application development, this solution includes pre-configured deep learning software frameworks, libraries, automated software updates and cluster management optimized for deep learning and supports NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs. HPE Deep Learning Cookbook: Built by the AI Research team at Hewlett Packard Labs, the deep learning cookbook is a set of tools to guide customers in selecting the best hardware and software environment for different deep learning tasks. These tools help enterprises estimate performance of various hardware platforms, characterize the most popular deep learning frameworks, and select the ideal hardware and software stacks to fit their individual needs. The Deep Learning Cookbook can also be used to validate the performance and tune the configuration of already purchased hardware and software stacks.


spotify/annoy

@machinelearnbot

Annoy (Approximate Nearest Neighbors Oh Yeah) is a C library with Python bindings to search for points in space that are close to a given query point. It also creates large read-only file-based data structures that are mmapped into memory so that many processes may share the same data. To install, simply do sudo pip install annoy to pull down the latest version from PyPI. For the C version, just clone the repo and #include "annoylib.h". There are some other libraries to do nearest neighbor search. Annoy is almost as fast as the fastest libraries, (see below), but there is actually another feature that really sets Annoy apart: it has the ability to use static files as indexes.


The Allure of Artificial Intelligence - KWHS

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Did you ever watch the 2015 movie Chappie? Set in the 22nd Century in South Africa, it's about a robotic police force fighting crime, the development of an artificial intelligence chip, and a robot named Chappie who begins to think like a human. Even since 2001 when Steven Spielberg's science fiction drama AI hit theaters, humanoid robots and artificial intelligence have been considered synonymous. In reality, though, the artificial intelligence industry is much broader. This essential part of the technology sector aims to create intelligent machines of all kinds that work and react like humans.


Traversing Knowledge Graph in Vector Space without Symbolic Space Guidance

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Recent studies on knowledge base completion, the task of recovering missing facts based on observed facts, demonstrate the importance of learning embeddings from multi-step relations. Due to the size of knowledge bases, previous works manually design relation paths of observed triplets in symbolic space (e.g. random walk) to learn multi-step relations during training. However, these approaches suffer some limitations as most paths are not informative, and it is prohibitively expensive to consider all possible paths. To address the limitations, we propose learning to traverse in vector space directly without the need of symbolic space guidance. To remember the connections between related observed triplets and be able to adaptively change relation paths in vector space, we propose Implicit ReasoNets (IRNs), that is composed of a global memory and a controller module to learn multi-step relation paths in vector space and infer missing facts jointly without any human-designed procedure. Without using any axillary information, our proposed model achieves state-of-the-art results on popular knowledge base completion benchmarks.


[P] New Stanford Course: Theories of Deep Learning (STATS 385) • r/MachineLearning

@machinelearnbot

Any plans on sharing the video lectures? By the way, my credits to the pace that Stanford starts courses on new topics. My faculty (EE) has yet to pick up on machine learning and deep learning. All the while, Stanford started CS231n on the Convnet wave and now it launches this course on the theory-of-deep-learning wave.


[P] Introducing Juggernaut: a neural net that trains models from the browser with no JS, no servers • r/MachineLearning

@machinelearnbot

I'm not sure why that's interesting that it has "no JS". Wasm can't talk to the host environment (the browser) so it's still using Javascript to get data in or out - Wasm has an import/export syntax for calling out to JS. It's still just interpreted on the browser engine; and, since it's in such a rough state (the'MVP' release only having been finalized in March), it's actually un-JITted. No worries there (I wasn't sure whether you thought that might go away. Not in any future that I can foresee).


Is AI-Powered Content Marketing The Future To Your Success?

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Content marketing has been dynamically evolving throughout the past years. Before, marketers needed to rely on generalized customer surveys to create campaigns. However, the current AI-powered marketing systems profile each potential customer and give them what they personally want. The automated digital marketing systems helped B2Bs and SMEs easily connect with their intended audience, becoming a huge help to marketers and business owners alike. Let's say its movie night.


Why telcos will soon be betting on Artificial Intelligence to build their networks

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NEW DELHI: As telecom companies are adopting technologies like virtualization, SDN-NFV, orchestration; Artificial Intelligence is going to play a big role in smooth integration of these technologies and automating the networks. As explained by Counterpoint Research, AI application in mobile networks circles around three applications – Self Optimizing networks (SONs), Software defined networks (SDN) & Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and enablement of neural networks. Among these, we may see SONs at the earliest. SONs enable operators automatically to optimize the network quality based on traffic information by region and time zone based on various machine learning algorithms. IDC on the other hand has predicted that 31.5% of the telecommunication organizations are primarily focusing to leverage existing investments/infrastructure and rest 63.5% are making new technology investments for AI systems.