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Ambi Robotics Emerges From Stealth with Advanced Simulation-to-Reality Artificial Intelligence

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Ambi Robotics, formerly Ambidextrous Laboratories Inc., emerges from stealth today to introduce AmbiOS, an advanced robot operating system based on simulation-to-reality artificial intelligence (AI). AmbiOS rapidly trains robots before deployment to pick and pack items for fast and affordable integration. The $6.1 million seed funding, led by Bow Capital, Vertex Ventures and The House Fund, supports efforts to deploy more AI-powered robotic systems across Ambi Robotics' U.S. customer base as e-commerce and shipping demand continues to surge. This press release features multimedia. "Using our unique approach to deep learning AI based on simulation-to-reality transfer, AmbiOS quickly configures our systems for a variety of sensors, robots and package categories," says Ken Goldberg, co-founder of Ambi Robotics.


Best Laptops for Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Data Science for 2021

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Machine learners, deep learning practitioners, and data scientists are continually looking for the edge on their performance-oriented devices. That's why we looked at over 2,000 laptops to bring you what we consider the best laptops for your projects on machine learning, deep learning, and data science. We will continuously update this resource with powerful and more performant laptops for every budget as technology continues to evolve to bring you the best suggestions for your machine learning, data science, and deep learning projects and adventures. Our mailbox is full of emails from AI enthusiasts asking us for the best laptops for AI projects. That's why we decided to make this list.


Deep Learning

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In the third course of the Deep Learning Specialization, you will learn how to build a successful machine learning project and get to practice decision-making as a machine learning project leader. By the end, you will be able to diagnose errors in a machine learning system; prioritize strategies for reducing errors; understand complex ML settings, such as mismatched training/test sets, and comparing to and/or surpassing human-level performance; and apply end-to-end learning, transfer learning, and multi-task learning. This is also a standalone course for learners who have basic machine learning knowledge. This course draws on Andrew Ng's experience building and shipping many deep learning products. If you aspire to become a technical leader who can set the direction for an AI team, this course provides the "industry experience" that you might otherwise get only after years of ML work experience.


Humble Book Bundle: Machine Learning Zero to Hero by Manning Publications

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Ready to become a machine learning hero? Manning Publications are bringing you a collection of bestselling ebooks like Machine Learning in Action, Deep Learning with Python, and Succeeding with AI. This bundle also includes three awesome video courses and three hands-on liveProjects. Plus, your purchase will support International Rescue Committee and World Central Kitchen, Inc. Normally, the total cost for the ebooks in this bundle is as much as $859. Here at Humble Bundle, you choose the price and increase your contribution to upgrade your bundle!


Interview with Michael Milford – using artificial intelligence for robotic navigation

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My primary interests are in the fields of spatial intelligence – how we can develop better navigation and positioning systems for robots and autonomous vehicles. My main research approach involves using a combination of traditional algorithmic approaches, modern deep learning and biologically-inspired approaches, both in terms of software and hardware. Spatial intelligence is one of the most tangible aspects of general intelligence, and hence it's a great gateway by which to progress our understanding and development of intelligence in robotics. For example, spatial intelligence can be directly observed in the brain, where multiple navigationally-relevant neurons like "place cells" can be observed, and modelled in software to create better performing robotic systems. From a technical point of view, autonomous vehicles are very good but not yet sufficiently perfect to be practicable.


Pretrained Models for Transfer Learning in Keras for Computer Vision

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Tensorflow is one of the highly used libraries for Machine Learning. It has built-in support for Keras. We can easily call functions related to Keras by using the tf.keras module. Computer Vision is one of the most interesting branches of machine learning. The ImageNet dataset was the turning point for researchers related to Computer Vision as it provided a large set of images for Object detection.


How Mirroring the Architecture of the Human Brain Is Speeding Up AI Learning

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While AI can carry out some impressive feats when trained on millions of data points, the human brain can often learn from a tiny number of examples. New research shows that borrowing architectural principles from the brain can help AI get closer to our visual prowess. The prevailing wisdom in deep learning research is that the more data you throw at an algorithm, the better it will learn. Today's largest deep learning models, like OpenAI's GPT-3 and Google's BERT, are trained on billions of data points, and even more modest models require large amounts of data. Collecting these datasets and investing the computational resources to crunch through them is a major bottleneck, particularly for less well-resourced academic labs.


Upgrade Your Beginner NLP Project with BERT

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When I first started learning Data Science and looking at projects, I thought you could either do a Deep Learning or regular project. This is not the case. With powerful models becoming more and more accessible, we can easily leverage some of the power of deep learning without having to optimize a neural network or use a GPU. In this post, we are going to look at embeddings. This is the way deep learning models represent words as vectors. We can part of the model to generate embeddings and fit a regular (scikit-learn) model on top to get some really incredible results! I'm going to explain each method individually, using graphs to represent why it works and show how to implement these techniques in Python.


Affectiva receives six new patents for using AI to analyse vehicle occupants

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Human perception AI pioneer Affectiva has been granted six patents for detecting the awareness and emotions of vehicle occupants. Affectiva Automotive AI combines deep learning with computer vision – using in-vehicle cameras – to analyse the states of the driver and other vehicle occupants in a cabin in real-time. "Over the last decade, Affectiva has continuously pursued new patents as we have pioneered and advanced the fields of Emotion AI and Human Perception AI. The breadth and depth of our patent portfolio reflect our commitment to pushing the boundaries of computer vision, machine learning, deep learning and AI at the edge; and, is a testament to our leadership in defining the many creative and diverse applications of Human Perception AI that are shaping industries today and in the future." The main benefit of this data is, of course, safety.


DropBlock: A New Regularization Technique

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Regularization is a strategy implemented in a deep neural network that will reduce the generalization error but not the training error to perform well on not just the training data but also on new unseen inputs. An effective regularizer reduces the variance significantly while not overly increasing the bias, thus preventing overfitting. We use regularization techniques like L1 and L2 to reduce overfitting, penalizing the loss function, or regularization techniques like Dropouts and Spatial Dropouts, which discourage model complexity. The principle behind regularization methods in a neural network is to inject noise into neural networks to avoid overfitting the training data. L2 regularization is commonly known as weight decay or ridge regression, or Tikhonov regularization.