We met up with Jeh Daruvala, CEO of Yactraq, a machine learning company with cutting edge technology that delivers business intelligence using audible or video input. In layman terms, their patent pending technology can be used to accurately search through tens of millions of hours of call center recordings TV shows, movies etc. in a fast and cost effective manner in order to provide actionable insights and intelligence. Here is what he had to say about one of the most coveted spaces in technology. Q: Can you please tell us about your company and the specific challenge that you are addressing? Yactraq empowers SMB & Enterprise clients with machine learning driven insights extracted from any audible media.

In part one, we showed how the machine learning process is like the scientific thinking process, and in part two, we introduced a benchmark task and showed how to get your machine learning system up and running with a simple nearest neighbors model. Time to crank it up! In this post, we continue the scientific thinking process by extending our simple starting model into increasingly powerful models. We'll show how to implement a particularly useful kind of model in Tensorflow. Shortcutting this process is a common failure mode--ye've been warned! But familiarity with common patterns of errors, diagnoses, and solutions allow experts to zip through the iterations. From the perspective of someone who is learning, it might look like the expert is skipping steps and going straight to the complicated stuff.

As autonomous technology continues to evolve, the Pentagon finds itself being pulled in two directions, enticed by the capabilities that autonomous systems could provide while also insistent it always be subservient to humans, and a set of human morals and mindsets. That tension was on full display Aug. 25, when a new report from a key Pentagon advisory group called for an acceleration of autonomous systems within the US military at the same time the country's second highest ranking uniformed officer warned that there will need to be limits on how the technology is used in order to avoid the dreaded killer-robot scenario. Speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Gen. Paul Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, laid out his concerns with the "Terminator Conundrum," the idea that a fully autonomous system could be created with the capability to make decisions about when and where to inflict violence. While noting that technologists in the Pentagon believe that capability is still a decade away, Selva noted that 15 years ago he was told a digital rendering of the world would be impossible and never happen, before dryly telling the audience" "So I guess Google Earth is an impossibility." He also threw his support behind the idea of a treaty or global convention against the creation of wholly autonomous systems that can operate without a man in the loop controlling it, saying: "I do think we need to examine the bodies of law and convention that might constrain anyone in the world from building that kind of a system.

The Startup company should be developing some AI or ML related product or service, either to consumer or business users. The company can be based in any country in the world. Any consumer application in the form of website or phone app that uses AI to provide the service. The application should be live and demonstrable. This can be for use with children's education, university students or self taught online training Applications of AI for the purpose of customer service, either consumer or business focused.

The rise of artificial intelligence and automation in journalism has been front and center in the news lately, from Narrative Science co-founder Kris Hammond's prediction that "a machine will win a Pulitzer one day" to Facebook's decision to automate its Trending Topics feed. Algorithms seem certain to play a growing role in the production and curation of news, but it remains unclear what exactly this trend will mean for journalism -- or for the human journalists who currently produce it. Celebrants argue that algorithms will simply take over journalism's most menial tasks, freeing up human journalists to tackle more advanced work. Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait, for example, called automation "crucial to the future of journalism," and New York magazine writer Kevin Roose described the introduction of automated reporting as "the best thing to happen to journalists in a long time." However, skeptics fear that robots may end up replacing journalists instead of helping them.

The Beatles may have ended decades ago, but AI is making good (if derivative) hits that sound an awful lot like something off "Revolver." Sony CSL Research Laboratory is releasing an album next year of songs written by Artificial intelligence, and the first hit track may be this uncanny number programmed in the style of The Beatles (in all honesty it sounds a little more like The Beach Boys to me, at least through the intro). The effort was not totally computer generated, of course. French composer Benoît Carré arranged and produced the harmonies for the songs. He also wrote the lyrics.

Artificial Intelligence is already operating in a range of limited but interesting ways across the healthcare sector. The use of processing computers that can sift and sort data hundreds if not thousands of times quicker than humans is growing, with research suggesting that we spent around 2 billion in venture backed capital on it in 2015. But where is its use likely to impact healthcare in the next decade or so, with reports predicting spending on AI in healthcare will reach as much as 20 Billion in 10 years time? Before we look at applications in healthcare in particular, we should remember that AI is an umbrella term for three related technologies; machine learning, extended human cognition and robotics. AI is quite a broad field and in this regard the impact on healthcare as one large industry is likely to be significant, especially in being able to be major new platform/systems leveraging by SAAS systems and databases intelligently talking to each other.

Even though bio-medicine was quick to make use of robotics and internet of things, its adoption of artificial intelligence has been slow and limited. However, with Microsoft aiming to develop cancer solutions with the help of artificial intelligence, things may change quickly. The US-based technology giant announced on Tuesday that it would be using machine learning to analyse tumour and developing new medication regimes besides working on its project "moonshot" which will help it create biological cells that can be programmed like computers. Though it all seems very ambitious at the moment, if successful, Microsoft would be able to treat cancer like a computer code, where programmed cells mutate to counter cancer. While targeted medicine is something that IBM is also doing, with its Watson Oncology project, the programmable cell would be the first such initiative.

Not every scientific study can be about weighty topics, like gravity waves or gene editing. Sometimes you can gain a true scientific insight by discovering that mammals of vastly different sizes require roughly the same amount of time to empty their bladders, or by noticing that people who speak 10 disparate languages all came up with a version of the word "Huh." These awards are bestowed every fall by the editors of the Annals of Improbable Research. There are 10 winners in a range of categories, which typically include fields like physics, neuroscience and mathematics (but which also may include entomology, safety engineering, fluid dynamics or acoustics). The prize-winning scholarship may sound silly, but that doesn't mean it's trivial.

LinkedIn is one of the more popular sites on the Web -- the go-to place for job searches and professional connections. Now the social network is making a big push to change that. The company, which said it was being acquired by Microsoft earlier this year, launched a wholesale redesign of its platform on Thursday. Brimming with buzzy social features like chatbots, hashtags, and breaking news notifications, it's the company's latest attempt to become a place people visit every day. Roughly 105 million people visit LinkedIn every month, compared to Twitter's 313 million monthly active users and Facebook's massive 1.7 billion audience.