The latest news about Google's head of search, Amit Singhal, to leave the company he spent 15 years with, had the shocking effect on the SEO community. And what is more surprising - his successor, John Giannandrea, is the one who has worked on artificial intelligence at Google (including RankBrain - the part of search algorithm which uses AI to work with a queries search engine was not able to understand before). With this change of executives, we may be on the verge of a new era - the era of transition from the algorithm-based search to AI-based search. To power its artificial intelligence, Google uses deep learning (also known as neural networks) - one of machine learning methods, which uses a mathematical model to mimic the way as human brain neurons work. Deep learning is built on the concept of digital neurons, organized into layers.

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Singaporean bank DBS announced on Wednesday it's going to have chatbots that you can text to do some of your common banking transactions. Unlike with the SMS service it and many other banks have in place, the bots are intended to process natural language conversations, so you don't have to memorise SMS codes or get the syntax perfect for things to work. This means instead of texting the bank something like "BALANCE 1234", you can ask: "How much money do I have in account number 1234?" DBS said it's relying on U.S. firm Kasisto to power the chatbots. Kasisto is a spin-off of SRI International, which created Apple's iPhone voice bot, Siri. It appears the chatbots will first come to SMS and later to chat messengers like WhatsApp and WeChat. Chatbots have had varied success simulating real conversation.

Remember those OkCupid blog posts about the mathematics of beauty, the lies people tell in online dating, and how OkCupid experiments on its users? Those were the work of Christian Rudder. Christian Rudder is the co-founder of OkCupid. He is also a founding member of celebrated indie-rock band Bishop Allen. He has his own IMDb page from roles in Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and the mumblecore film Funny Haha. He is cited on the "Love" wikipedia page, and he's written massively popular blog posts at OkTrends. Two years ago he authored Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity–What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves, the New York Times best-selling book that delved into what data tells us about who we really are.

OpenAI, a non-profit research company devoted to advancing artificial intelligence, has become one of the proud owners of a DGX-1, NVIDIA's so-called "supercomputer in a box," a server specifically designed for machine learning work. The system, which was hand-delivered to the company's headquarters in San Francisco by NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, will be used to run some of OpenAI's most computationally challenging applications. More generally, the DGX-1 will be used to support the company's mission, namely to "advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return." The non-profit is being backed by Silicon Valley icons like Elon Musk and Peter Theil, and managed to attract more than a 1 billion worth of funding at the time it was founded in December 2015. The company only expects to spend a tiny fraction of that amount over the next few years.

Machine learning is in high demand, as customers are progressively looking for ways to gather insights from their data. It is at the peak of the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2015. It uses computers to run predictive models that learn from the existing data in order to forecast future outcomes, trends, and behaviors. Overall these forecasts make the apps and devices smarter. Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML) is a powerful cloud-based predictive analytics service that makes it possible to quickly create and deploy predictive models as analytics solutions.

A quick observation: Donald Trump is not like normal people. In particular, he doesn't have any principles to speak of, that might guide him. That doesn't mean he doesn't have a method. He does, but it's local rather than global. Instead of following some hidden but stable agenda, I would suggest Trump's goal is simply to "not be boring" at Trump rallies.

According to industry estimates, the US needs about 200,000 more workers to fill current cybersecurity roles. Globally, the gap is five times higher – an estimated 1 million workers. The issue has become such a priority that President Obama made increasing the number of cybersecurity workers a key component of his multibillion-dollar Cybersecurity National Action Plan, which was introduced earlier this year. The White House said earlier this month it plans on boosting the federal cybersecurity workforce by 3,500 new hires by year's end. But as businesses compete for scarce cybersecurity talent and policymakers weigh remedies for the digital security worker shortage, the ground underneath the profession is shifting.

Hi! Well finally there is the first release of this project: An open source book which will hopefully contain some useful resources for those who want to learn some data analysis/machine learning. This release covers a little of data preparation, data profiling, selecting best variables (dataviz), assessing model performance, and coming soon a case study using decision trees.

The rise of artificial intelligence has long stoked fears of killer robots like the "Terminator," and early versions of military automatons are already in the battlefield. Now the Navy is looking into how it can teach machines to do the right thing. "We've been looking at different ways that we can have people interact with autonomous systems," Marc Steinberg, an Office of Naval Research manager, said in a phone interview this month. The Navy is funding a slew of projects at universities and institutes that look at how to train such systems, including stopping robots from harming people. In 1979, a Ford autoworker in Michigan became the first person killed by a robot when he was struck in the head by the arm of a 1-ton production-line machine, according to Guinness World Records. More recently, police in Dallas used a robot to deliver a bomb that killed the shooter who opened fire on officers at a Black Lives Matter protest.