So, you want to learn how to build machine learning algorithms? But where do you start? Becoming a data scientist is a really smart career move – it's possibly one of the most valuable jobs out there. That's just one of the reasons it was hailed by the Harvard Business Review as the'sexiest job of the twentieth century' back in 2012. But learning the skills you need to become a truly great data scientist, capable of building powerful machine learning systems with languages like Python and R, isn't easy.

In 2016, the White House recognized the importance of AI at its Frontiers Conference. The concept of driverless cars became a reality, with Uber's self-driving fleet in Pittsburgh and Tesla's new models equipped with the hardware for full autonomy. Google's DeepMind platform, AlphaGo, beat the world champion of the game--10 years ahead of predictions. "Increasing use of machine learning and knowledge-based modeling methods" are major trends to watch in 2017, said Marie desJardins, associate dean and professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. How will this play out?

Michio Kaku, a noted theoretical physicist and futurist, predicts, "The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform." Robots have recently entered the legal workplace, performing several tasks once assigned to newly minted law grads. What does this mean for current and future lawyers? Simple answer: robots will not replace lawyers but they will work with them. Technology has already produced a new class of support professionals that work with lawyers -- just as techs work with doctors in healthcare delivery.

Intel has been on a multi-year journey to diversify themselves from a PC and server play to an IoT leader spanning the endpoint to the datacenter and everything in-between. So far, the company has seen its biggest differential success in the data center maintaining their giant compute share and growing in networking and storage and just laid out their AI strategy. They've done well in industrial strength IoT gateways and end points like security cameras where performance matters but of course, intend to go further. Intel has one big tier 1 4G LTE design win in the Apple iPhone 7 and needs to prove it's more than a one hit wonder. In 5G, Intel is way ahead of where they were with 4G at this point in the standard development process, too.

Here is where we take advantage of AzureMl's newest feature: the Create R Model module. Now we can use R's randomForest library and take advantage of its large number of adjustable parameters directly inside AzureML studio. Then, the model can be deployed in a web service. Previously, R models were nearly impossible to deploy to the web. For a detailed explanation of setting up data partitions and model training checkout our other tutorial here.

Computer mastery of the complex board game Go has long been seen as a landmark for artificial intelligence. A mystery player causing a stir in the world of the complex strategy game Go has been revealed as an updated version of AlphaGo, the artificial-intelligence program created by Google's London-based AI firm, DeepMind. Known only by the name "Master (P)", since late December the anonymous player has beaten the world's best at Go in a string of online games, including defeating current world number one, 19-year old Ke Jie. South Korea trumpets $860-million AI fund after AlphaGo'shock' Go is regarded as the most complex board game ever invented, and famously difficult for computers to crack. But last year, AlphaGo showcased the strength of AI software when it stunned the Go world first by defeating a professional human player, Fan Hui, and then going on to beat one of the Go world's top players, Lee Sedol.

Toyota Motor Corp. wants you and your car to be friends. On Wednesday at CES, the industry trade show formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, the automaker unveiled its "Concept-i" vehicle, a futuristic-looking car with an artificially intelligent assistant built in. "We need to look beyond the simple driver-vehicle interface and focus on the driver-vehicle relationship," said Bob Carter, senior vice president of automotive operations at Toyota. Embedded in Concept-i is "Yui," Toyota's artificial intelligence system. Yui is intended to monitor driver behavior and mood to determine the vehicle's actions.

Bob, CFO of ABC Inc is about to get on an earnings call after just reporting a 20% miss on earnings due to slower revenue growth than forecasted. Company ABC's stock price is plummeting, down 25% in extended hour trading. The board is furious and investors demand answers on the discrepancies. Inaccurate revenue forecast remains one of the biggest risks for CFOs. In a recent study, more than 50% of companies feel their pipeline forecast is only about 50% accurate.

Gaetan Hadjeres and Francois Pachet at the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Paris created DeepBach, then entered Bach's 352 chorales. The resulting composition is certainly in the style. So why does this work better than some other attempts?

When Google's artificial intelligence program AlphaGo made history by taking down Korea's Lee Sedol--one of the world's best Go players--in a landslide 4-1 victory in March, Chinese player Ke Jie was skeptical. He famously wrote on Weibo the next day, "Even if AlphaGo can defeat Lee Sedol, it can't beat me," and has since agreed to take on the AI at an undecided time. But now even Ke, the reigning top-ranked Go player, has acknowledged that human beings are no match for robots in the complex board game, after he lost three games to an AI that mysteriously popped up online in recent days. On Jan. 4, after winning more than 50 games against several of the world's best Go players, Ke included, a user registered with an ID of "Master" on two Chinese board game platforms came forward to identify itself as AlphaGo. "I'm AlphaGo's Doctor Huang," the user "Master" wrote on foxwq.com,