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rstudio/tensorflow
TensorFlow is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. Nodes in the graph represent mathematical operations, while the graph edges represent the multidimensional data arrays (tensors) communicated between them. The flexible architecture allows you to deploy computation to one or more CPUs or GPUs in a desktop, server, or mobile device with a single API. The TensorFlow API is composed of a set of Python modules that enable constructing and executing TensorFlow graphs. NOTE: You should NOT install TensorFlow with Anaconda as there are issues with the way Anaconda builds the python shared library that prevent dynamic linking from R. If you install TensorFlow within a Virtualenv environment you'll need to be sure to use that same environment when installing the tensorflow R package (see below for details).
What has Mr. Robot done for the security industry?
Yes, it's just a TV show, but television plays a huge role in creating cultural phenomenons, and Mr. Robot has certainly found its place in pop culture. Anti-hero Elliot, a hacker whose ambition is to save the world from E Corp, struggles with mental illness. The voices inside his head are constantly in a conflict of good vs evil. As a result, Elliot's good intentions have paved his road to hell. Where does that leave the rest of us, though?
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Most of us will be familiar with Siri, the personal assistant that lives inside your iPhone, answering questions, checking the weather, and setting your morning alarms. Now imagine Siri on a whole other level. Those of you that have recently updated your Apple devices to iOS 10 might have noticed the bot features that have been integrated into the messaging application. Bots are more accessible than ever, and can be reached without having to go at all out of your way. In fact, you could be using them regularly without even knowing it.
New Microsoft AI research group to try make Cortana better
Microsoft is doubling down on its efforts to create better AI, with the establishment of a dedicated research group of over 5,000 staff to make Cortana and its other products much smarter. The decision taken by Microsoft to form a department solely focused on AI is no surprise, given the recent announcement of its involvement in the newly formed Partnership on AI to benefit People and Society. The partnership – that also includes Google, Facebook, Amazon and IBM, among others – is an attempt to democratise AI technology for the good of humankind. However, this doesn't prevent Microsoft from going it alone to compete with Google Now, Siri and Alexa in the intelligent personal assistant game. In a statement, Microsoft said that the division of 5,000 staff will be led by Microsoft veteran Harry Shum, who has worked in research and Bing engineering within the company.
Researchers make progress toward computer video recognition
Computers can already recognize you in an image, but can they see a video or real-world objects and tell exactly what's going on? Researchers are trying to make computer video recognition a reality, and they are using some image recognition techniques to make that happen. Researchers in and outside of Google are making progress in video recognition, but there are also challenges to overcome, Rajat Monga, engineering director of TensorFlow for Google's Brain team, said during a question-and-answer session on Quora this week. The benefits of video recognition are enormous. For example, a computer will be able to identify a person's activities, an event, or a location.
How to Steal an AI
In the burgeoning field of computer science known as machine learning, engineers often refer to the artificial intelligences they create as "black box" systems: Once a machine learning engine has been trained from a collection of example data to perform anything from facial recognition to malware detection, it can take in queries--Whose face is that? Is this app safe?--and spit out answers without anyone, not even its creators, fully understanding the mechanics of the decision-making inside that box. But researchers are increasingly proving that even when the inner workings of those machine learning engines are inscrutable, they aren't exactly secret. In fact, they've found that the guts of those black boxes can be reverse-engineered and even fully reproduced--stolen, as one group of researchers puts it--with the very same methods used to create them. In a paper they released earlier this month titled "Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs," a team of computer scientists at Cornell Tech, the Swiss institute EPFL in Lausanne, and the University of North Carolina detail how they were able to reverse engineer machine learning-trained AIs based only on sending them queries and analyzing the responses.
Photolemur is an app that utilizes artificial intelligence to make your photos look better
Photolemur is the world's first fully automated photo enhancement solution with both casual and seasoned photographer in mind. It is powered by a state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence algorithm that not only fixes your image's imperfections without human involvement, it learns! What does this mean for you? You can create amazing images as vivid as you remember them without the use of complicated image editing software. As you process your images in Photolemur, the AI analyzes common compression, noise and color balance problems and corrects them on the fly.
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It was the best of times p His photographs capture the culture of rock and punk music; the beguiling moments with the Ramones, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Blondie, Dead Boys, Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch and many more as they made New York's CBGB club their home in the late 1970s. John Thackwray, a French and South African commercial filmmaker and photographer, has traveled the globe since 2010, and photographed over 1,200 bedrooms of young people born in the 1980s and 1990s. More than a decade ago, the European Space Agency launched an orbiter named Rosetta, bound on a circuitous voyage to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In the years since, Rosetta has been drawn in and flung along by multiple gravity assist maneuvers, visiting the Earth three times and making … A few weeks ago we suggested you follow 5 topics that cover the more basic aspects of the business of blogging. Today let's focus on something equally important: the life of a blogger. This week I attended MMA SM2 Innovation Summit in New York, which took place during Advertising Week.
Deep learning architecture diagrams - FastML
Like a wild stream after a wet season in African savanna diverges into many smaller streams forming lakes and puddles, deep learning has diverged into a myriad of specialized architectures. Each architecture has a diagram. Here are some of them. Neural networks are conceptually simple, and that's their beauty. A bunch of homogenous, uniform units, arranged in layers, weighted connections between them, and that's all.