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Introducing Salesforce Einstein–AI for Everyone

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All of this is made possible by artificial intelligence (AI)–complex and highly technical solutions such as natural language processing, deep learning and machine learning that when applied to everyday actions in our personal lives make us smarter and more productive. But in keeping with Albert Einstein's dictum that the definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple, Salesforce Einstein is removing the complexity of AI, enabling any company to deliver smarter, personalized and more predictive customer experiences. Salesforce Einstein is a set of best-in-class platform services that bring advanced AI capabilities into the core of the Customer Success Platform, making Salesforce the world's smartest CRM. Powered by advanced machine learning, deep learning, predictive analytics, natural language processing and smart data discovery, Einstein's models will be automatically customized for every single customer, and it will learn, self-tune, and get smarter with every interaction and additional piece of data.


Introducing Salesforce Einstein–AI for Everyone

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Apple's Siri analyzes thousands of movie showings and surfaces recommendations for the best times and theaters based on my location within seconds. Spotify knows my music preferences and curates personalized playlists for me. Facebook instantly recognizes my friends in photos and suggests tags with nearly 98 percent accuracy. All of this is made possible by artificial intelligence (AI)–complex and highly technical solutions such as natural language processing, deep learning and machine learning that when applied to everyday actions in our personal lives make us smarter and more productive. Today, Salesforce is delivering Salesforce Einstein–artificial intelligence for everyone.


Machine Learning Techniques Aim to Reduce Traffic ENGINEERING.com

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It's a problem we can all relate to: sitting in traffic and waiting for a green light. While waiting, you may have even pondered how you would try to improve traffic efficiency--surely there's got to be some way for everyone to get to work on time. But ponder no longer, because a team of engineers from Tsinghua University in China has handed the problem over to machines. The team's recent study makes use of deep reinforcement learning algorithms to optimize traffic signaling, and its promising results suggest there may be a way to arrive on time after all. Let's be clear: traffic is a complex problem to solve, and traffic control engineers have long worked on improving efficiency.


A Tour of Machine Learning Algorithms

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In this post, we take a tour of the most popular machine learning algorithms. It is useful to tour the main algorithms in the field to get a feeling of what methods are available. It is useful to tour the main algorithms in the field to get a feeling of what methods are available. There are so many algorithms available and it can feel overwhelming when algorithm names are thrown around and you are expected to just know what they are and where they fit. I want to give you two ways to think about and categorize the algorithms you may come across in the field.


ITESM graduates develop innovative exoskeleton that uses artificial intelligence and augmented reality

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Exoskeletons are mechanical structures applied externally to the body and its functions is the improve movement, hold the body of people suffering from an injury or increase physical strength to lift heavy objects. To improve and extend the functionality of these devices, graduates of Technology Monterrey (ITESM) develop an exoskeleton that works with artificial intelligence and is made up of several independent parts to rehabilitate specific body parts as joints through augmented reality. The device acquires motion with brain or muscle signals and measures simultaneously translated by the apparatus noninvasively. Dr. Ernesto Rodríguez Leal, professor at the ITESM, explained that the device can acquire motion by a headband containing electrodes themselves are responsible for receiving and calculate the electroencephalographic signals emitted by the brain and electromyographic produced by muscles. These electrical impulses go to a microprocessor which makes the task of sorting and translate the signals that move the device using artificial intelligence algorithms.


IBM to collaborate with MIT to develop AI-based vision systems

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IBM Research is to collaborate with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop machine-vision systems. The new IBM-MIT Laboratory for Brain-inspired Multimedia Machine Comprehension's (BM3C) will work on the development of cognitive computing systems that can emulate the human ability to comprehend visual and audio inputs. BM3C will address technical challenges around both pattern recognition and prediction methods in the field of machine vision that are currently impossible for machines alone to accomplish. For example, online retailer Ocado has talked to Computing about the need for such systems in order to automate the packing of supermarket items for delivery so that potatoes are packed before tomatoes. The BMC3 collaboration will bring together brain, cognitive, and computer science specialists to conduct research in the field of unsupervised machine understanding of audio-visual streams of data, using insights from next-generation models of the brain to inform advances in machine vision.


#AskAboutAI: Learning to See and Speak

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This month Stanford launched a 100-year study of AI (AI100) with a report: Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030. The 16 member study panel issuing the report sees increasingly useful applications of AI, with potentially profound positive impacts on our society and economy over the next decade. The study identifies eight domains where AI is already having or is projected to have the greatest impact: transportation, healthcare, education, low-resource communities, public safety and security, employment and workplace, home/service robots and entertainment. Let's start with public safety and a few emerging AI applications. Google's AI artificial company DeepMind announced an app that generates human-like speech.


Nick Bostrom on the Single Most Important Challenge That Humanity Has Ever Faced – Metis Strategy

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There has been a lot written about the transformational power of artificial intelligence. If you are a regular reader of this column, you have gained the perspectives of eight of the leading thinkers on the topic. Nick Bostrom is perhaps the most influential thinker on safety concerns associated with the march toward artificial intelligence. He calls artificial intelligence "the single most important and daunting challenge that humanity has ever faced." Bostrom is an extraordinary polymath, having earned degrees in physics, philosophy, mathematical logic, and neuroscience.


Global Bigdata Conference

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And for businesses that want to invest in analyzing this data where traditional statistics don't fit, there is a huge opportunity–one that is feeding a new wealth of startups and new initiatives from established analytics companies who seem to be getting the message that calling a product "machine learning" even if it's just a slightly upped version of analytics, is the rage. That causes a problem of definition, and there are, without naming names, some serious examples of analytics and BI companies taking the same old software and slapping a "machine learning" label on it simply because it sounds more robust or complex than data analytics. This is one of the growing pains for any new technology area, especially when the hype machine revs its mighty engines. Hall says users need to understand their data and problem and once that happens, it will be clear whether or not a standard statistics and database solution will suit versus something more versatile (and likely complex).


Peter Diamandis

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the most important technology we're developing this decade. Broadly, AI is the ability of a computer to understand your question, to search its vast memory banks, and to give you the best, most accurate, answer. AI is the ability of a computer to process a vast amount of information for you, make decisions, and take (and/or advise you to take) appropriate action. You may know early versions of AI as Siri on your iPhone, or IBM's Watson supercomputer. Watson made headlines back in 2011 by winning Jeopardy, and now it's helping doctors treat cancer patients by processing massive amounts of clinical data and cross-referencing thousands of individual cases and medical outcomes.