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Playing Super Mario Bros with Deep Reinforcement Learning

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From this article, you will learn how to play Super Mario Bros with Deep Q-Network and Double Deep Q-Network (with code!). Super Mario Bros is a well-known video game title developed and published by Nintendo in the 1980s. It is one of the classical game titles that lived through the years and need no explanations. It is a 2D side-scrolling game, allowing the player to control the main character -- Mario. The gameplay involves moving Mario from left to right, surviving the villains, getting coins, and reaching the flag to clear stages.


Riboflow: Using Deep Learning to Classify Riboswitches With 99% Accuracy

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Riboswitches are cis-regulatory genetic elements that use an aptamer to control gene expression. Specificity to cognate ligand and diversity of such ligands have expanded the functional repertoire of riboswitches to mediate mounting apt responses to sudden metabolic demands and signal changes in environmental conditions. Given their critical role in microbial life, riboswitch characterisation remains a challenging computational problem. Here we have addressed the issue with advanced deep learning frameworks, namely convolutional neural networks (CNN), and bidirectional recurrent neural networks (RNN) with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM). Using a comprehensive dataset of 32 ligand classes and a stratified train-validate-test approach, we demonstrated the accurate performance of both the deep learning models (CNN and RNN) relative to conventional hyperparameter-optimized machine learning classifiers on all key performance metrics, including the ROC curve analysis. In particular, the bidirectional LSTM RNN emerged as the best-performing learning method for identifying the ligand-specificity of riboswitches with an accuracy >0.99 and macro-averaged F-score of 0.96. An additional attraction is that the deep learning models do not require prior feature engineering. A dynamic update functionality is built into the models to factor for the constant discovery of new riboswitches, and extend the predictive modeling to new classes. Our work would enable the design of genetic circuits w...


How PyTorch Is Challenging TensorFlow Lately

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Google's TensorFlow and Facebook's PyTorch are the most popular machine learning frameworks. The former has a two-year head start over PyTorch (released in 2016). TensorFlow's popularity reportedly declined after PyTorch bursted into the scene. However, Google released a more user-friendly TensorFlow 2.0 in January 2019 to recover lost ground. PyTorch is emerging as a leader in terms of papers in leading research conferences.


These creepy fake humans herald a new age in AI

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You can see the faint stubble coming in on his upper lip, the wrinkles on his forehead, the blemishes on his skin. He isn't a real person, but he's meant to mimic one--as are the hundreds of thousands of others made by Datagen, a company that sells fake, simulated humans. These humans are not gaming avatars or animated characters for movies. They are synthetic data designed to feed the growing appetite of deep-learning algorithms. They will make it for you: how you want it, when you want--and relatively cheaply.


Applied Deep Learning Using Uber's Ludwig Library

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Ludwig is developed at Uber. Ludwig is a toolbox that allows to train and test deep learning models without the need to write code. It is built on top of TensorFlow. I am going to use Google Colab and see how it works. I am going to prepare a model for image caption.


Deep Learning Techniques for Speech Emotion Recognition, from Databases to Models

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The advancements in neural networks and the on-demand need for accurate and near real-time Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) in humanโ€“computer interactions make it mandatory to compare available methods and databases in SER to achieve feasible solutions and a firmer understanding of this open-ended problem. The current study reviews deep learning approaches for SER with available datasets, followed by conventional machine learning techniques for speech emotion recognition. Ultimately, we present a multi-aspect comparison between practical neural network approaches in speech emotion recognition. The goal of this study is to provide a survey of the field of discrete speech emotion recognition.


Avnet to showcase power of AI and machine learning

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The company will also hold the Avnet 2021 Artificial Intelligence Cloud Conference on 29 June, 2021. Joined by developers, engineers, and decision makers in the AI field, the summit will feature cutting-edge technology trends in artificial intelligence and machine learning, and in-depth discussions on the development, future prospects and blueprints for AI to encourage and accelerate innovation. "MarketsandMarkets forecasts the global artificial intelligence market size to grow to over USD$300 billion by 2026, and the market in Asia Pacific is anticipated to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period," says KS Lim, senior director of supplier management at Avnet Asia. "As the world's leading technology distributor and solution provider, Avnet has a comprehensive ecosystem that provides customers with end-to-end artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions, reducing the cost and complexity of product development to enable application scenarios," he says. "We will continue to work hand in hand with our suppliers and partners to further contribute to the development and maturity of the entire AI ecosystem."


AI and Misinformation: How Artificial Intelligence Works on Both Sides

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One of the growing problems today is misinformation: the proliferation of fake news and misleading content across social media platforms. While artificial intelligence (AI) helps in its spread, there has been growing proof of how it can be used to curb this problem. However, more than just the daily news article, misinformation has far-reaching - and often fearsome - implications in more critical fields such as cybersecurity, public safety, medicine, and even science. In fact, there have been published collaborative papers, one appearing in the April 2021 issue of PNAS, tackling misinformation as a result of common human biases and prevailing practices in the critique and release of scientific papers. This even includes respected, peer-reviewed journals.


InformationWeek, serving the information needs of the Business Technology Community

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AI is seeping into just about everything, from consumer products to industrial equipment. As enterprises utilize AI to become more competitive, more of them are taking advantage of machine learning to accomplish more in less time, reduce costs and discover something whether a drug or a latent market desire. While there's no need for non-data scientists to understand how machine learning (ML) works, they should understand enough to use basic terminology correctly. Although the scope of ML extends considerably past what's possible to cover in this short article, following are some of the fundamentals. Before one can grasp machine learning concepts, they need to understand what machine learning terms mean.


Meet Wu Dao 2.0, the Chinese AI model making the West sweat

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A new artificial intelligence model developed by Chinese researchers is performing untold feats with image creation and natural language processing -- making rivals in Europe and the U.S. nervous about falling behind. The model, dubbed Wu Dao 2.0, is able to understand everything people say -- the grammar too -- but can also recognize images and generate realistic pictures based on descriptions. It can also write essays and poems in traditional Chinese, as well as predict the 3D structures of proteins, POLITICO'S AI: Decoded reported. Developed by the government-funded Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence and unveiled last week, Wu Dao 2.0 appears to be among the world's most sophisticated AI language models. Wu Dao 2.0's creators say it's 10 times more powerful than its closest rival GPT-3, developed by the U.S. firm OpenAI.