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Super-intelligent machines: AI may soon pass Japan's toughest test
A robot developed by the National Institute of Informatics is now smart enough to be accepted into most Japanese universities - but not the notoriously selective University of Tokyo. This artificial intelligence is called the Todai Robot Project, and aims to pass the entrance exam for the University of Tokyo in 2021. For the first time in its development, the AI program achieved an above-average score on a college entrance exam, which covered maths, physics, and english among other subjects. University of Tokyo, also called'Todai,' requires prospective students to take the general admissions test, the National Center Test for University Admissions, along with its own infamously difficult test The University of Tokyo, also referred to as'Todai,' is notorious for its extremely difficult entrance exam. Prospective students must take a general college entrance exam, the National Center Test for Admissions, along with the Todai test.
Hitachi Social Innovation Stories The new crime-fighter: how does artificial intelligence support security surveillance?
At a time when there is high pressure and scrutiny around security, innovative new technologies are helping to track and predict crime. Artificial intelligence (AI) is key in this new way of fighting crime, providing analysis that can give real support to law enforcement services as they make difficult decisions about how best to use their resources. CCTV cameras have been in use in Europe since the Second World War. However, they have sometimes come under scrutiny about their effectiveness when it comes to tackling crime, as they tend to only provide retrospective support for law enforcement (such as placing a suspect at the scene of the crime in their trial). With new cameras able to send and receive data via a computer network and the Internet (IPTV), as well as the huge amount of data collected every second using traditional CCTV, AI can collate this data extremely quickly ready for analysis.
Theano Tutorial - Marek Rei
This is an introductory tutorial on using Theano, the Python library. I'm going to start from scratch and assume no previous knowledge of Theano. However, understanding how neural networks work will be useful when getting to the code examples towards the end. I recently gave this tutorial as a talk in University of Cambridge and it turned out to be way more popular than expected. In order to give more people access to the material, I'm now writing it up as a blog post. I do not claim to know everything about Theano, and I constantly learn new things myself.
First pKantuML results: Starting the building of a machine learning repository
Last month I posted about the great improvements that we were likely to achieve thanks to the implementation of machine learning mining software (pKantuML) that used an OpenCL/C hybrid process for the mining of machine learning trading strategies. After spending a lot of time building and testing the software plus doing all the server side implementations for the cloud mining and the processing of cloud mining results today I am glad to say that we now have a fully functioning machine learning cloud mining operation using the power of mixed OpenCL/C calculations. On today's blog post I want to talk a bit about what we have achieved, how this will evolve and why this will bring a significant level of diversification to our current trading operations. The idea with pKantuML is to take advantage of GPU simulations to mine machine learning trading strategies, however since the ML part cannot be easily translated into OpenCL code -especially in a way in which results are the same between OpenCL and C/C for live trading – we decided to generate all the needed ML predictions within our C/C tester and then use these generated prediction files to perform massive amounts of simulations in OpenCL code varying things that do not depend on the machine learning code (such as the filtering hours, stoploss values, trailing stop types, etc). The idea is to do a small amount of computationally intensive work in C/C that can then be expanded greatly by using OpenCL.
maxpumperla/betago
So, you don't work at Google Deep Mind and you don't have access to Nature. You've come to the right place. BetaGo lets you run your own Go engine. It downloads Go games for you, preprocesses them, trains a model on data, for instance a neural network using keras, and serves the trained model to an HTML front end, which you can use to play against your own Go bot. It should start a playable demo in your browser!
MIT Develops AI That Detects 85 Percent of Cyber-Attacks
MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), together with researchers from security firm PatternEx, has revealed a new AI (Artificial Intelligence) system called AI2, which can detect 85 percent of cyber-attacks, with false positives rates five times smaller than existing solutions. The new system doesn't rely entirely on artificial intelligence (AI), but also on user input, something that researchers call analyst intuition (AI), hence its name of AI2. Researchers said they fed AI2 with over 3.6 billion lines of log files, allowing the system to scan the content with unsupervised machine-learning techniques. At the end of each day, the system presents its findings to a human operator, who then confirms or dismisses security alerts. This human feedback is then incorporated into AI2's learning system and used the next day for analyzing new logs. After their tests had concluded, MIT and PatternEx researchers said AI2 achieved an 85 percent accuracy rate in detecting cyber-attacks, which is 2.92 times better than similar automated cyber-attack detection systems used today.
'Your face is big data:' The title of this photographer's experiment says it all
Photographs used in Tsvetkov's study. You may think you do, but a recent experiment by a Russian photographer suggests otherwise. In a project entitled, "Your face is big data," Rodchenko Art School student, Egor Tsvetkov, began by photographing about 100 people who happened to sit across from him on the subway at some point. He then used FindFace, a facial-recognition app that taps neural-network technology, to try to track them down on Russian social media site VK. It was ridiculously easy to find 60 to 70 per cent of the subjects aged between 18 and 35 or so, he found, although for older people it was more difficult.
BioClinica partnership to support 'continuum of pharmacovigilance services'
As part of the agreement, BioClinica becomes ArisGlobal's preferred partner in business process consulting and change management as sponsors implement or upgrade ARISg, ArisGlobal's pharmacovigilance and clinical safety system. The cloud-based solution helps facilitate drug development and regulatory compliance throughout the entire product life cycle. "We decided to partner with ArisGlobal because we saw the opportunity to offer a continuum of pharmacovigilance services that can fit the needs of sponsors and CROs as those needs change, whether sponsors are growing, merging, experiencing a surge or a drop in safety events," Mukhtar Ahmed, BioClinica President eHealth Solutions, told Outsourcing-Pharma.com. "In the same way that therapies are moving from a'one size fits all' model, so is our offering model." According to the company, the partners are currently working to develop ArisGlobal's next generation of products, which will combine medical knowledge with technologies derived from such areas as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing.
Chatbots land on Skype's Mac client and web app
If you've been dying to try out Skype bots but don't have a Windows PC, Android, or iOS device to chat on, you're finally in luck. Skype recently rolled out bot integration to the Mac client and the service's beta web app. There are only six bots to try out right now, which is to be expected since this is still a preview feature. Despite the small numbers, some of the automated services are fairly useful. Give Bing News some keywords such as "Presidential election" and you get three recent headlines for that topic. Skype's current bot selection shown on the web app.