The creators of Mimus, a 1,200-kg (2646 lbs.) industrial robot that can sense and respond to human movement, believe it's possible. Part art-installation, part display of engineering ingenuity, Mimus was created from an ABB IRB 6700 robot and commissioned for the "Fear and Love" exhibit at The Design Museum with the goal of promoting companionship between humans and machines. The robot's creator notes that this particular machine is more like a "she" than an "it." Most industrial robots are made to perform repetitive tasks, but Mimus has no pre-planned movements and is instead programmed to freely explore the space around her and to interact with visitors. The exhibit designers wanted to replicate the experience of seeing a large, exotic animal at a zoo.

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Stanford researchers say they've created a new artificial intelligence system that can identify skin cancer as well as trained doctors can. According to a study they published in science journal Nature, the program was able to distinguish between cancerous moles and harmless ones with more than 90 percent accuracy. The researchers trained the system by feeding it nearly 130,000 images of moles and lesions, with some of them being cancerous. The system scanned the images pixel by pixel, identifying characteristics that helped it make each diagnosis. Using machine learning, the A.I. grew more accurate as it studied more samples.

The Industrial Revolution was when humans first overcame the limitations of muscle power. Often referred to also as the First Machine Age, humans during this period were largely complements to the machines. The Second Machine Age, which we are into currently, is mainly about complementing our mental faculties many times, using digital technologies. It is not too clear though whether humans will complement machines during this era or will be replaced altogether. Examples of both can be seen.

You don't need any coding skills or math experience to understand the story. There is also a demo network available for download, so you can play with it yourself on your computer.

Use MATLAB, a simple webcam, and a deep neural network to identify objects in your surroundings. MATLAB code associated with the demo in'Deep Learning in 11 Lines of MATLAB Code' video. This demo uses AlexNet, a pretrained deep convolutional neural network (CNN or ConvNet) that has been trained on over a million images. The example has two parts: setting up the camera and performing object recognition. The first part shows how to use the webcam command to acquire images from the camera.

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The point here that surprises most Machine Learning practitioners is the'brute-force memorization'. See, ML has always been about curve fitting. In curve fitting you find a sparse set of parameters that describe your curve and you use that to fit the data. The generalization that comes into play relates to the ability to interpolate between points. The major disconnect here is that DL have exhibited impressive generalization, yet it cannot possibly work if we consider them as just memory stores.

Hungry penguins have inspired a novel way of making sure computer code in smart cars does not crash. Tools based on the way the birds co-operatively hunt for fish are being developed to test different ways of organising in-car software. The tools look for safe ways to organise code in the same way that penguins seek food sources in the open ocean. Experts said such testing systems would be vital as cars get more connected. Engineers have often turned to nature for good solutions to tricky problems, said Prof Yiannis Papadopoulos, a computer scientist at the University of Hull who developed the penguin-inspired testing system.

I spend most of my waking time ( and likely my subconscious works overtime while I sleep) studying Deep Learning. Peter Thiel has a phrase, "The Last Company Advantage". Basically you don't necessarily need to have the "First Mover Advantage" however you absolutely want to be the last company standing in your kind of business. So Google may be the last Search company, Amazon may be the last E-Commerce company and Facebook hopefully will not be the last Social Networking company. What keeps me awake at night though is that Deep Learning could in fact be the "Last Invention of Man"! However, let's ratchet it down a little bit here.