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This Week in Hadoop and More: Spark, Keras, and Deep Learning - DZone Big Data
An update to Keras provides a long-term stable API, native TensorFlow version, SkyMind Deep Learning 4 J implementation, and several important updates. I found this great deep dive analysis of text analysis and understanding. The article Multilingual Parsing From Raw Text to Universal Dependencies has a lot of projects. I will be keeping an eye on this one to see some practical business uses. This is a great place to stop learning how to do image classification without a lot of data using Keras.
Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Can It Take Over?
Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk first warned us about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Elon Musk then turned around and with other technologists put $1B into starting a nonprofit research effort - OpenAI just to "keep an eye on it"! Facebook, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Shopify and others are charging full steam at AI and even open sourcing it! So what is all the AI ruckus about? AI has been subject matter for science fiction for a long time now. Every SciFi show you can think of has a intelligent computer or robot as a sidekick or with some prominent role.
Integrating mobile and chatbot tech: 3 things marketers need to know
If you think mobile apps have lost their charm and using them doesn't excite you anymore, you're in for a real surprise. Chatbots, or bots, are taking the digital world by storm, and they're even getting integrated into mobile apps. Even industry giants are encouraging developers to work on their chatbot platforms. In April 2016, Facebook allowed all developers and businesses to build chatbots for its Messenger service. Marketers can have a field day with this, because it allows them to interact with customers and prospects. For some businesses, chatbots can replace humans in customer service, while for others, it can become a powerful marketing tool.
Machine Learning in Finance - Present and Future Applications -
Machine learning has had fruitful applications in finance well before the advent of mobile banking apps, proficient chat bots, or search engines. Given high volume, accurate historical records, and quantitative nature of the finance world, few industries are better suited for artificial intelligence. There are more uses cases of machine learning in finance than ever before, a trend perpetuated by more accessible computing power and more accessible machine learning tools (such as Google's Tensorflow). Today, machine learning has come to play an integral role in many phases of the financial ecosystem, from approving loans, to managing assets, to assessing risks. Yet, few technically-savvy professionals have an accurate view of just how many ways machine learning finds its way into their daily financial lives.
It's Time To Treat Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant Like The Toddlers They Are Co.Design
Why? Townsend's friend had searched for Harry Potter a few days ago. And when he put Allo on the spot with a question about its existence, it spit out a random link it had uttered recently. Allo had done something very frightening: It had aired his private search results. Google called the error an "issue." And I'm sure to any software developer, that's exactly what it was–another bug to be squashed.
AI's Game Playing Challenge - Computerphile
AlphaGo is beating humans at Go - What's the big deal? Rob Miles explains what AI has to do to play a game. What on Earth is Recursion?: https://youtu.be/Mv9NEXX1VHc Many thanks to Nottingham Hackspace for providing the location and being downright awesome Easter Egg: https://youtu.be/B8CujhUwVic This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.
4 Reasons Amazon Is Winning the Smart Speaker Wars -- The Motley Fool
The home smart speaker market didn't even exist just a few short years ago, but it's taking the world by storm. It has since been joined by sibling products -- the smaller Echo Dot and the wireless Tap -- with Alexa at the heart of each one. Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) reports that in just two short years after its introduction, Amazon has sold an estimated 8.2 million devices, and was one of the company's top selling items over the holidays. While competition in the field is intensifying, it may be difficult for similar products to overcome Amazon's early lead. Here are four reasons why Amazon could come out on top.
Microsoft researchers bring computer power to social science - Next at Microsoft
It's called the prisoner's dilemma and it goes like this: You and a fellow gang member are in jail. One of you committed a heinous crime, but the prosecutor doesn't know who. Instead, you are both booked on a lesser charge and serving a one-year sentence in solitary confinement. But here's the deal: The prosecutor has given you both an opportunity to rat. If you betray your fellow gang member but are not ratted on, you walk free while your buddy serves a three-year term.
Intuitive Machine Learning : Gradient Descent Simplified
This article was written by Roopam Upadhyay. Roopam is a seasoned professional of advanced analytics with more than a decade of experience in statistical modeling, data science, predictive analytics, optimization, & business consulting. They learn the same way as humans. Humans learn from experience and so do machines. For machines, experience is in the form of data.