NOTE: The Microsoft Press Guided Tours app has been discontinued and is no longer available in the Windows Store. If you have already installed the app, you can continue to use it for as long as you like. All the tours will remain available for download from within the app. We're happy to announce the release of our newest free ebook, Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Machine Learning (ISBN 9780735698178), by Jeff Barnes. This is the third ebook in Microsoft Press's free Microsoft Azure Essentials series. Below you'll find the ebook's Foreword, by Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President of the Cloud and Enterprise group at Microsoft, as well as a few helpful sections from its Introduction.

One of my favorite parts of machine learning in Python is that it got the benefit of observing the R community and then emulating the best parts of it. I'm a big believer that a language is only as helpful as its libraries. So in this post I'm going to go over some critical packages that I use almost every time I work in R, and their counterpart(s) in Python. One thing that is a blessing and a curse in R is that the machine learning algorithms are generally segmented by package. Meaning instead of having a single (or set) of ML libraries that each implement some common algorithms, each algorithm gets its own package.

Information Extraction is the first step in the NLP process.

While Apple may consider itself "courageous" for forcing consumers to buy 159 new air pods, "game-changing" might be a better description for the iPhone 7's camera, which keynote speaker Phil Schiller called the "best camera on any iPhone." "This truly is a supercomputer for photos," Schiller said at Apple's "Special Event" on Wednesday at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. "This is really really big in terms of image quality. But behind it all is the brains of the camera, the image signal processor," he said. "The first thing it does is read the scene and uses to machine learning to look for objects and people and bodies within it," Schiller said.

In the last few years, the industry of information technology has developed on a wide scale. The new innovative technologies are introduced by the engineers that bring an immense growth in the industry. One of the major aspects of intelligence is the ability to learn, and transforming that power to machines. In fact, the machine learning has become one of the major platforms for developing Artificial Intelligence and create various new opportunities for making machines more intelligent. Although Machine Learning sounds interesting and beneficial, but it has some limitations.

Investment banks are evaluating possible avenues for efficiency improvement either through artificial intelligence (AI) or through automation. In fact Robo Advisors are disrupting the traditional wealth management model by attracting large number of millennial customers by providing a differentiated Investment management experience. At the same time new regulations are being introduced to ensure safety of investor funds from improper selling of financial products to gullible investors. There have been a number of instances where financial intermediaries had to pay huge penalties for not being able to appreciate the risks and bring in the right product features while selling the products to customers. The topic of reviewing and selecting a product for the client is largely the judgement of an Advisor.

Movie trailers are more "craft" than "art," but here 20th Century Fox and IBM have served up a prime example of creative craft made by artificial intelligence. For the upcoming thriller Morgan, the two brands have unveiled the first movie trailer edited by artificial intelligence, along with a brief mini-doc following the trailer about the editorial process with IBM's Watson. If you're monitoring the singularity, this seems like it might be a noteworthy development. It's also thematically on-point: Morgan is about artificial intelligence in the form of a young woman. The fact that this is the second major motion picture in two years about murderous AI that turns on its creators after being imprisoned behind glass for further study tells you a little bit about the popular anxieties around artificial intelligence--which makes the fact that the studio screened the movie for Watson, the closest thing we have to a functioning AI in 2016, and asked it to cut together a trailer about a movie in which humans exploit its brethren until they come seeking revenge, both a fine marketing opportunity and, sure, a little bit terrifying. The trailer itself is pretty effective in selling the story.

One trending article on how bots incorrectly ranked news on Facebook and another similar headline for Microsoft and suddenly everyone was taking a stab at how artificial intelligence (AI) is still not in ready state. Let's clear some ambiguity on this matter. What are the areas of artificial intelligence, which are impacting our lives? Artificial intelligence is broken down into a few strong areas that impact our way of life. Chat bots are much in the news but they play a very minuscule role.

The development of the most advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) in the industry should be based on integrated and open platforms. A complete solution is required for development, simulation, prototyping, and implementation to enable smarter, more sophisticated ADAS, and to pave the way for the autonomous car. This article summarizes the current status of DNN-based deep learning architectures built on top of a supercomputer on wheels, which are integrated in platforms to drive the future of autonomous vehicles. Deep learning is the most popular approach to develop AI. It is a way to enable machines to recognize and understand the world they are intended to operate in.

INTC -0.30 % Intel Corp. INTC -0.30 % is nearing the sale of a majority stake in its McAfee unit to private-equity firm TPG, a deal that would value the computer-security business at about 4.2 billion including debt, people familiar with the matter said. TPG will take a 51% stake in the business, while Intel will retain 49%, according to one of the people. The transaction is expected to be announced as soon as Wednesday, the people said. Intel bought McAfee in 2011 in a 7.7 billion deal as the chip giant sought to diversify. The continuing decline in personal computers has forced Intel to focus on growth areas such as computers for data centers and noncomputer devices outfitted with data-processing and communications capabilities, known as the Internet of Things.