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Tactical AI beats a US Air Force colonel in a dogfighting simulation

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Whether it's Deep Blue beating Garry Kasparov at chess, Watson defeating Ken Jennings at Jeopardy!, or Google DeepMind's AlphaGO besting Lee Sedo at Go, artificial intelligence can't be underestimated when it comes to taking on the champions and winning. That's because a new AI system called ALPHA -- developed by recent University of Cincinnati doctoral graduate Nick Ernest, now CEO of Psibernetix -- recently defeated retired United States Air Force Colonel Gene Lee in an air combat simulator. Not only did Colonel Lee, who has extensive aerial combat experience as an instructor, fail to kill ALPHA's aircraft during combat, he was also repeatedly shot out of the air by the bot. According to Lee, ALPHA is "the most aggressive, responsive, dynamic and credible AI I've seen to date." "ALPHA is an incredibly difficult opponent to face," Psibernetix CEO Nick Ernest tells Digital Trends. "Even flying against other pilots when ALPHA has severe handicaps to a number of its systems -- including speed, turning, missile capability and sensors -- it is able to win.


Deep Learning is the next thing

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While I did write a primer on Deep Learning earlier the more we learn about Deep learning the more excited we are and there does not seem to any end to the new apps that will come up using Deep Learning. Deep Learning is a branch of Artificial intelligence that uses neural network to train data and thereby extract the data in the fastest possible manner. For Deep learning neural network is the origin. Way back in 1940's neural network architecture was discovered as someone wanted to just replicate the human brain and thought a data structure similar to neurons in the brain will help us solve AI issues. How many Neurons are there in the brain?


Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York

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An artificial-intelligence lawyer chatbot has successfully contested 160,000 parking tickets across London and New York for free, showing that chatbots can actually be useful. Dubbed as "the world's first robot lawyer" by its 19-year-old creator, London-born second-year Stanford University student Joshua Browder, DoNotPay helps users contest parking tickets in an easy to use chat-like interface. The program first works out whether an appeal is possible through a series of simple questions, such as were there clearly visible parking signs, and then guides users through the appeals process. The results speak for themselves. In the 21 months since the free service was launched in London and now New York, Browder says DoNotPay has taken on 250,000 cases and won 160,000, giving it a success rate of 64% appealing over 4m of parking tickets.


Artificial Intelligence And Relaxation: Relaxingpal Indiegogo Launch

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Dublin, CA โ€“ On June 10, 2016, daVigor, Inc. launched an Indiegogo campaign for RelaxingPal, a game changing, intelligent eye-mask for sleep and relaxation. The company, daVigor, has been started by Krishna Yeddanapudi, an entrepreneur from Silicon Valley, California. Krishna has also assembled a highly competent team to develop RelaxingPal. Prior to daVigor, Inc., Krishna was the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) and main founder of Robin Systems. He established Robin's product, for the first three years, from scratch. Now, the RelaxingPal team is looking to raise money through Indiegogo backers and fans.



Google Fellow Talks Neural Nets, Deep Learning EE Times

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SAN FRANCISCO--We are already living with deep learning and large-scale neural networks, as evidenced by the growing number of applications that rely on computer vision, language understanding, and robotics. In a keynote talk, Dean outlined the history of machine learning (ML) and neural networks and various ways to program models to take advantage of raw data coming through in the form of images or audio. Dean pointed to Google--s speech recognition team, which through the use of neural networks reduced word errors by 30%. The team used the networks to replace the acoustic model of its speech recognition pipeline -- which uses raw audio waveforms to determine sounds and words -- and achieved --the biggest single improvement in two decades.-- The fundamental problems being solved by ML and neural networks can be found in other fields such as medical and satellite imaging.


Google Fellow Talks Neural Nets, Deep Learning EE Times

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SAN FRANCISCO--We are already living with deep learning and large-scale neural networks, as evidenced by the growing number of applications that rely on computer vision, language understanding, and robotics. What we now want most from machine learning, said Google Senior Fellow Jeff Dean to the audience at SIGMOD 2016 keynote today (Tuesday, June 28), is --understanding." In a keynote talk, Dean outlined the history of machine learning (ML) and neural networks and various ways to program models to take advantage of raw data coming through in the form of images or audio. He also detailed how ML has taken shape at Google, which recently announced that it will open a machine learning center in Europe. The company developed its own accelerator chips for artificial intelligence it calls tensor processing units (TPUs) after the open source TensorFlow algorithms it released last year.


8 Proven Ways for improving the "Accuracy" of a Machine Learning Model

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Enhancing a model performance can be challenging at times. I'm sure, a lot of you would agree with me if you've found yourself stuck in a similar situation. You try all the strategies and algorithms that you've learnt. Yet, you fail at improving the accuracy of your model. You feel helpless and stuck.


Cozmo: This Cute Robot Uses AI to Develop Its Own Personality

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Most robots tend to lack a real sense of personality, with repeated movements and scripted responses. Cozmo, however, uses a combination of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and computer vision to develop his own personality -- "a gifted little guy with a mind of his own," the creators write on their website. In fact, Anki claims that Cozmo possesses the kind of personality we tend to see in the lovable robots in movies. Plus, his personality evolves with the more time someone spends with him. "We've had this promise in science fiction of all the robots that could exist," Anki CEO and co-founder Boris Sofman said in a video introducing Cozmo.


This is the Microsoft tech that's fueling NASCAR

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A line of cars as far as the eye can see snakes between the big rigs that carried them to the race. There's a buzz of excitement as crews scramble to make last minute adjustments as officials begin measuring every inch of each car to make sure no one is cheating. Frank Prendergast, a NASCAR engineer working on vehicle inspection tools, pulls out a Microsoft Surface Pro tablet and calls up the Mobile Inspection app. The app, also developed by Microsoft, collects and verifies visual inspection data. It's cut down a process that typically takes six hours to just three, and Microsoft claims the app has already saved 20,000 sheets of paper.