A new age is dawning. Whether it is a wonderful one or a terrible one remains to be seen. Look around and the signs of dizzying technological progress are difficult to miss. Driverless cars and drones, not long ago the stuff of science fiction, are now oddities that can occasionally be spotted in the wild and which will soon be a commonplace in cities around the world. With a few flicks of a finger, we can use our phones to order up a meal, or a car, or a translation for a waiter's query in a foreign country. Gadgets such as the Amazon Echo are finding their way into living rooms, where they sit listening, ready to comply with a voice command. Just a few years ago, one could dismiss the digital age as consisting of little more than social networks and cat videos; no longer.

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When I was young and foolish, I often wondered about why someone would chose to spend all that effort in driving a motorcycle, when they also had the option to chose a car. To me, it seemed as if the comfort and the safety offered by the latter was the only way to travel. After growing up and having experienced the thrill offered by a bike, the adrenaline rush when you are speeding at 80 miles on a level stretch of road, well, I feel even more thankful for the safety features integrated in cars, than ever. However, BMW is working on concept bike that may just change the way people like me, look at motorcycles. Cars are probably going to be way cooler in around a decade or so, thanks to the huge interest in autonomous and other technologies.

This course is about the fundamental concepts of machine learning, focusing on neural networks, SVM and decision trees. These topics are getting very hot nowadays because these learning algorithms can be used in several fields from software engineering to investment banking. Learning algorithms can recognize patterns which can help detect cancer for example or we may construct algorithms that can have a very very good guess about stock prices movement in the market. In each section we will talk about the theoretical background for all of these algorithms then we are going to implement these problems together. The first chapter is about regression: very easy yet very powerful and widely used machine learning technique.

H2O Sparkling Water supports a wide array of algorithms, and as illustrated above it's easy to chain these functions together with dplyr pipelines. To learn more see the H2O Sparkling Water section.

One amazing feat of combined neuroscience, engineering and computing was achieved by Edda Bilek, Andreas Myer-Lindenberg and colleagues from the Mannheim Central Institute of Mental Health in Germany. They invented a way to study information flow between human pairs during real-time social interaction, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures changes in blood flow in the brain. They were particularly interested in studying joint attention because it arises in early development and is important for social learning.

The AI system, called FlowMachines, works by first analyzing a database of songs, and then following a particular musical style to create similar compositions. The final result does have a human touch, however. In the case of both songs above, French composer Benoît Carré arranged the songs and wrote the lyrics.

Smartphones are quickly evolving from pure information delivery tools into devices with advanced software capable of diagnosing and evaluating a number of health issues. Not only are they being used to expand the reach of mobile eye exams, but with the help of some new research and innovative artificial intelligence tools, they're stepping into the domain of behavioral health. Emotions analytics company Beyond Verbal has launched its Beyond mHealth Research platform in the hopes that it will eventually be able to identify physiological markers in the voice that point to different health-related issues. The project has been getting attention from many in the healthcare and tech communities, including Mark Zuckerberg. According to VentureBeat, the Facebook head has praised the platform for its interesting potential.

Good aim, at the wrong target, is always a miss. This describes much of the current work in Artificial Intelligence: Brilliant minds, clever programmers, amazing algorithms, all pointed at the wrong target with stupefying aim. Despite their brilliance, cleverness, and coding, someone will get hurt if we continue pursuing the type of AI in vogue. A few weeks ago, Google put out guidance for research on preventing harm from AI. This last week, the Federal Government did the same.

The modern world seems really fast and dynamic with a multitude of new products being launched. Marketing agencies are making fortune by monitoring the markets and delivering reports on consumers' opinions. For today, the feedback analysis is a separate area, let's say a growing industry with an array of products and services. And the prices for those services are pretty exorbitant. So, do vendors have a chance to cut down expenses?