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AI software writes, and rewrites, its own code, getting smarter as it does
Machine learning is becoming extremely powerful, but it requires extreme amounts of data. You can, for instance, train a deep-learning algorithm to recognize a cat with a cat-fancier's level of expertise, but you'll need to feed it tens or even hundreds of thousands of images of felines, capturing a huge amount of variation in size, shape, texture, lighting, and orientation. It would be lot more efficient if, a bit like a person, an algorithm could develop an idea about what makes a cat a cat from fewer examples. A Boston-based startup called Gamalon has developed technology that lets computers do this in some situations, and it is releasing two products Tuesday based on the approach. If the underlying technique can be applied to many other tasks, then it could have a big impact.
Findo's Solutions
Findo wanted to use the results achieved in image analysis with deep statistical models and to apply them to text analysis. Text data is extremely sparse: the more discrete the data, the more data is required to successfully train statistical models. The solution to this obstacle was vector solutions. Artificial Intelligence generally does involve machines producing language responses to a natural (meaning human) language query. But recent advances in fields like generative variational text modeling, distributed vector space modeling of sentences and documents, and topic modeling have made the problem of sparseness more tractable.
4 Smart Ways to Play the Artificial Intelligence Boom
Move over mobile: artificial intelligence is the next big disruptive trend in the tech world. While the proliferation of smartphones has dominated the tech cycle over the past couple of years, the growth of artificial intelligence will drive the next technological revolution. Artificial intelligence gives machines the capacity...
Inside Intel Corporation's Artificial Intelligence Strategy -- The Motley Fool
A much discussed area in technology these days is artificial intelligence, a type of machine learning. Artificial intelligence is a workload that requires an immense amount of processing power, which is why companies like microprocessor giant Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) -- a company that brings in tens of billions of dollars from sales of processors -- see this market as an interesting long-term growth opportunity. Interestingly, although Intel is a major supplier of processors for artificial intelligence workloads, the company doesn't get nearly as much attention for its efforts in this market as does graphics specialist NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) -- a company that has seen significant revenue and profit growth from artificial intelligence applications as its long-term investments in this space are paying off. Intel went over its artificial intelligence strategy at its Feb. 9 investor meeting. Let's look at what the company had to say about the market and how it plans to win in it.
Debunking the "No Human" Myth in AI
From my perspective, it is the smart thing to do for entrepreneurs to involve humans when necessary, as long as it is a means to an end, with the ultimate goal remaining full automation. Worth noting: should they remain at the stage where they use a lot of humans and little automation, entrepreneurs will be stuck with a low margin business that will be increasingly hard to finance and will have low acquisition potential and/or value – probably not a great long-term strategy.
Feature Engineering For Deep Learning (IT Best Kept Secret Is Optimization)
Feature engineering and feature extraction are key, and time consuming, parts of the machine learning workflow. They are about transforming training data, augmenting it with additional features, in order to make machine learning algorithms more effective. Deep learning is changing that according to its promoters. With deep learning, one can start with raw data as features will be automatically created by the neural network when it learns. The feature engineering approach was the dominant approach till recently when deep learning techniques started demonstrating recognition performance better than the carefully crafted feature detectors.
Welcoming the machines: How insurers will drive value from machine learning
AI is clearly a hot topic for insurers. And, as Rick's article aptly points out, InsurTech startups are creating compelling new use cases and applications for data, algorithms and AI within the insurance space. It is, indeed, an exciting time for insurance. Yet many traditional insurers may read Rick's article with concern and potential fear. In a recent survey by KPMG International, 91 percent of insurance CEOs admitted being worried about the challenge of integrating automation, AI and cognitive robotics into their existing business and operating models.
ZestFinance Introduces Machine Learning Platform to Underwrite Millennials and Other Consumers with Limited Credit History
Today, ZestFinance announced the Zest Automated Machine Learning (ZAML) Platform for credit underwriting. ZAML enables lenders to analyze vast amounts of non-traditional credit data to increase approval rates and reduce the risk of credit decisions, particularly for thin-file and no-file borrowers like millennials. The platform also provides the ability to explain data modeling results to measure business impact and comply with regulatory requirements. The ZAML Platform is available today. Financial institutions, including banks, credit card issuers, auto financiers, and others, are under competitive pressure to increase revenues while managing risk and ensuring compliance.
New chip from MIT could mean power-efficient AI in all your electronics
Researchers at MIT have developed a low-power chip specialized for automatic speech recognition that could result in a power savings of up to 99 percent. Although far from being perfect, Apple's Siri transformed how we perceive mobile artificial intelligence. Since then we've seen similar attempts from various companies – from the disastrous S-Voice to the most recent Google Assistant. In fact, 2017 is shaping up to be the year of AI: Android Wear 2.0 has Google's virtual assistant built in, Samsung is rumored to bring an improved AI assistant with the Galaxy S8, and IoT home devices are becoming more and more commonplace. However, these advanced virtual assistants rely on speech recognition, and often, it has to be always on in order to detect your command.