Most Machine Learning courses are given from the perspective of a Data Scientist and focus on the techniques and algorithms that allow to learn from data. This workshop takes the perspective of an application developer and instead provides an end-to-end view of ML integration into your applications. We'll go all the way from data preparation to the integration of predictive models in your domain and their deployment in production. The workshop is agnostic and features the best open source Python libraries (Pandas, scikit-learn, SKLL), APIs and ML-as-a-Service platforms (Microsoft Azure ML, Amazon ML, BigML) for developers getting started in Machine Learning. It focuses on only two learning techniques, which turn out to be the most commonly used in practice: decision trees and ensembles.

Technological change has accelerated in the past few decades. The digital revolution has significantly changed manufacturing processes, and the ways in which people work, consume and live. Machines powered by computer programs can be designed to plan, reason, present knowledge and learn human responses. Such machines are called intelligent machines, and the intelligence they possess is known as artificial intelligence or AI. During the industrial revolution of the 19th century, machines replaced skilled weavers in the textile industry.

Who says experiencing real love is a perquisite for answering all of love's tough questions? Communications company NTT Resonant has revealed that, beginning this August, it will be turning to artificial intelligence to help handle love advice queries on Oshiete! goo, a feature of the goo search engine site similar to Yahoo! Answers. The company is predicting that this AI will eventually be able to come up with its own answers to users' dating and relationship dilemmas, instead of just gleaming and summarizing content written by previous users. If all goes well, there are plans to expand the AI program to include advice on parenting and health, too, which the site hopes will net an influx in user traffic to the site. In the very least, we hope the results will be amusing enough to keep users entertained like this doodling version on Twitter, and not go down the same path as Microsoft's AI-turned-racist troll.

The usual movers and shakers of the analytics ecosystem last week found themselves having to share the limelight with Infosys Ltd., which made headlines by unveiling a machine learning platform for automating common business activities. Mana, as the system is called, can be used to do most of anything from processing payments to answering customer support tickets. The launch comes as part of an ongoing effort from Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka to move his firm beyond merely helping organizations with their application projects to providing the software itself. If successful, the push could improve the outsourcing giant's margins while creating new opportunities for its consulting arm to sell workload implementation services. A similar financial motivation led Oracle Corp. to shell out 663 million last week for Textura Corp, a cloud vendor that specializes in managing the massive amounts of data produced during building projects.

Artificial intelligence is a tool that allows technology to go a step further. Throughout the history of Artificial Intelligence, there have been several subfields developed as methods for problem solving. One of them is Deep Learning. Today we will be delving into TensorFlow. TensorFlow is an open source python library that uses deep learning and graph computation.

Last month American fast food giant Taco Bell introduced the "TacoBot", a Siri-like version of the cashiers that take your order at its restaurant. TacoBot is loftily described as the future of ordering tacos and the software makes use of AI (artificial intelligence) advancements like natural language processing to let users talk with the bot, order food, and even pay for items entirely through platforms such as Facebook and Slack. "The TacoBot Slack integration is the latest step on our journey to make the brand more accessible wherever and whenever our fans want it," said Lawrence Kim, Taco Bell's director of digital innovation and on demand, in a statement. "Taco Bell is about food tailor-made for social consumption with friends, and that's why integrating with a social communications platform like Slack makes perfect sense. TacoBot is the next best thing to having your own Taco Bell butler… and who wouldn't want that??" TacoBot has the ability to recommend menu items, answer questions, organise group orders, and facilitate transactions fully equipped with a Taco Bell "personality" as seen below.

More on Artificial Intelligence Why Artificial Intelligence Sucks Right Now How Can You Tell If a Machine is Thinking? In this episode, Trace tries to imagine what an AI-powered future might look like. One outcome that a lot of futurists predict is "the singularity": the merging of man and machine. In 1990, noted futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that this was the inevitable conclusion of where technology will lead us. Kurzweil reminds us that the computer powering his cellphone is literally several billion times more powerful and 100,000 times smaller than the computers he used 25 years ago.

Way back in 2005, when Will Wright unveiled Spore to an astonished crowd at GDC, there was one particular part of the demo that seemed to generate buzz: procedural dance. Spore uses player input to generate everything from a creature's walk animation to its mode of social interaction, but it was the ability to take a novel body shape and make it dance that seemed to excite people's imaginations the most. Yet Spore took the easy road: None of the creatures look like human beings, which means we have no idea what they're supposed to dance like. Spore basically just defined dancing as rhythmic movement, sometimes around a fire; that's not a bad definition by any means, but it's also nowhere near good enough to generate lifelike human dance.

Speaking of design we usually think about the wonderful front-ends your customers, and sometimes employees, love. We might also think of industrial design or even city shaping. These days we are so focused on the front-end; we might be tempted to forget the back-end. They say, beauty is what lies inside. With multi-channel, or even better onmi-channel and cross-channel, companies try to reach out to the customers and design a rich pallet of interfaces shaped to match the size of the channel and fitting it's character.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - MAY 28: Google senior vice president of product Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address during the 2015 Google I/O conference on May 28, 2015 in San Francisco, California. Have you wondered about a world run by AI (Artificial Intelligence)? A world where everything is possible with just a click of a button? According to a new report, Google is gearing for a future where you will no longer care about your devices because everything will be about AI. In the annual shareholder letter by Google CEO Sundar Pichai, he revealed that they have been building the best AI team and tool in the past years.