Machine learning has come of age in public health reporting according to researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. They have found that existing algorithms and open source machine learning tools were as good as, or better than, human reviewers in detecting cancer cases using data from free-text pathology reports. The computerized approach was also faster and less resource intensive in comparison to human counterparts. Every state in the United States requires cancer cases to be reported to statewide cancer registries for disease tracking, identification of at-risk populations, and recognition of unusual trends or clusters. Typically, however, busy health care providers submit cancer reports to equally busy public health departments months into the course of a patient's treatment rather than at the time of initial diagnosis.

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SEOUL--Humanity has fallen to artificial intelligence in checkers, chess, and, last month, Go, the complex ancient Chinese board game. But some of the world's biggest nerds are confident that machines will meet their Waterloo on the pixelated battlefields of the computer strategy game StarCraft. A key reason: Unlike machines, humans are good at lying. StarCraft, created in 1998, is one of the world's most popular computer game franchises. It pits three races against one another: the humanlike Terrans, the slimy insectoid Zerg and a mystical race with psionic powers called the Protoss.

Google has been talking about neural networks for a while now. These networks work more like the human brain. These networks help in responding to search queries with a thorough understanding of these queries. These networks work faster than human brain and can do a lot in a short span of time. Many other social platforms like Facebook and Twitter are now looking to adopt this technique which is popularly known as deep learning.

Artificial intelligence is being used to reduce poaching. Scientists have developed an AI system that uses – and learns from – information on where poaching is taking place to map out the most effective patrols for rangers seeking to protect wildlife. Thousands of animals are illegally killed every day for their skin, traditional medicines and trophy hunting. As a result, wild tiger populations have decreased 95% over the past 100 years, black rhinos have reduced by 98% since 1960, and more than 30,000 elephants are killed each year for their ivory. Human patrols are the most direct way to protect wildlife from poachers.

Artificial intelligence is set to play in increasing role in logistics, according to DHL, which has predicted 26 major trends for the logistics industry over the next five to ten years in its 2016 'Trend Radar' report. DHL found that artificial intelligence and personalisation have influenced a number of the transformational trends in the report. This includes intelligent supply chains that use self-learning or machine learning systems. The logistics provider said that the impact of autonomous, and data-driven supply chains'provides an opportunity for previously unimaginable levels of optimisation in manufacturing, logistics, warehousing and last mile delivery'. It said that this could take place in less than five years, despite high set up costs discouraging early adoption in logistics.

Deep Learning: Intelligence from Big Data Tue Sep 16, 2014 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Stanford Graduate School of Business Knight Management Center – Cemex Auditorium 641 Knight Way, Stanford, CA A machine learning approach inspired by the human brain, Deep Learning is taking many industries by storm. Empowered by the latest generation of commodity computing, Deep Learning begins to derive significant value from Big Data. It has already radically improved the computer's ability to recognize speech and identify objects in images, two fundamental hallmarks of human intelligence. Industry giants such as Google, Facebook, and Baidu have acquired most of the dominant players in this space to improve their product offerings. At the same time, startup entrepreneurs are creating a new paradigm, Intelligence as a Service, by providing APIs that democratize access to Deep Learning algorithms.

Often they involve more than one. In December, Microsoft-owned Skype unveiled a demo version of a real-time translation service. As one caller speaks English or Spanish, the program renders it in the other language, in both spoken and written form. The U of T computer science department website hosts a version of a tool that many industry players are racing to perfect: upload a picture, and it generates a written caption. At a CIFAR talk in March, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, now a U of T professor, showed that the model is eerily accurate -- but not always.

Big Data is a powerful technology for business, but that power is even more important in the world of science. While business collects data on customers and processes, science can create staggering amounts of information with a single experiment. Often, that data can take years to work through by conventional means. Big Data processing can turn years into months or weeks. One of the latest tools science has taken up to handle their Big Data needs is machine learning.

In November, 2015, Google open-sourced its numerical computation library called TensorFlow using data flow graphs. Its flexible implementation and architecture enables you to focus on building the computation graph and deploy the model with little efforts on heterogeous platforms such as mobile devices, hundreds of machines, or thousands of computational devices. TensorFlow is generally very straightforward to use in a sense that most of the researchers in the research area without experience of using this library could understand what's happening behind the code blocks. TensorFlow provides a good backbone for building different shapes of machine learning applications. However, there's a large number of potential users, including some researchers, data scientists, and students who may be familiar with many data science concepts/algorithms already but who never get involved in deep learning research/applications, may found it really hard to start hacking.