Although most recognize GE as a leading name in energy, the company has steadily built a healthcare empire over the course of decades, beginning in the 1950s in particular with its leadership in medical X-ray machines and later CT systems in the 1970s and today, with devices that touch a broad range of uses. Much of GE Healthcare's current medical device business is rooted in imaging hardware and software systems, including CT imaging machines and other diagnostic equipment. The company has also invested significantly in the drug discovery and production arena in recent years--something the new CEO of GE, John Flannery (who previously led the healthcare division at GE), identified as one of three main focal points for GE's financial future. According to Flannery, the company's healthcare unit has one million scanners in service globally, which generate 50,000 scans every few moments. As one might imagine, this kind of volume will increasingly require more processing and analysis capabilities cooked in--something the company is seeking to get ahead with in today's partnership with Nvidia.

This was originally posted on the Silicon Valley Data Science blog. Modern artificial intelligence makes many benefits available to business, bringing cognitive abilities to machines at scale. As a field of computer science, AI is moving at an unprecedented rate: the time you must wait for a research result in an academic paper to translate into production-ready code can now be measured in mere months. However, with this velocity comes a corresponding level of confusion for newcomers to the field. As well as developing familiarity with AI techniques, practitioners must choose their technology platforms wisely.

Machine learning is taking the tech world by storm. Google announced it was open-sourcing Tensor Flow, their machine learning (ML) software, and Microsoft quickly followed suit. Baidu and Amazon unveiled their own deep learning platforms a few months later, while Facebook began supporting the development of two ML frameworks. But the revolution has spread far beyond the tech realm. As ML continues to take over the tech world, companies and researchers outside the tech bubble have started using ML in somewhat strange and surprising ways.

Artificial Intelligence research advances are transforming technology as we know it. The AI research community is solving some of the most technology problems related to software and hardware infrastructure, theory and algorithms. Interestingly, the field of AI AI research has drawn acolytes from the non-tech field as well. Case in point -- prolific Hollywood actor Kristen Stewart's highly publicized paper on Artificial Intelligence, originally published at Cornell University library's open access site. Stewart co-authored the paper, titled "Bringing Impressionism to Life with Neural Style Transfer in Come Swim" with the American poet and literary critic David Shapiro and Adobe Research Engineer Bhautik Joshi.

Summary: Here are our 6 predictions for data science, machine learning, and AI for 2018. Some are fast track and potentially disruptive, some take the hype off over blown claims and set realistic expectations for the coming year. It's that time of year again when we do a look back in order to offer a look forward. What trends will speed up, what things will actually happen, and what things won't in the coming year for data science, machine learning, and AI. We've been watching and reporting on these trends all year and we scoured the web and some of our professional contacts to find out what others are thinking.

Google Inc. has reacted to the launch of rival Amazon Web Services Inc.'s SageMaker machine learning service by dramatically slashing the cost of its own offering. Technology news website VentureBeat first reported the price cuts, citing a blog posted online by Google that was later removed. However, the new prices for its managed cloud machine learning service are reflected in the company's official documentation. The cuts are fairly significant, with customers now being charged 43 percent less than before for Google's basic tier compute service for training machine learning algorithms, VentureBeat reported. It's not clear why Google's blog post was pulled, but it could have something to do with a couple of other new services the company is planning to launch soon.

This is a short supplementary post for beginners learning neural networks. It does not intend to provide a complete learning roadmap, but the contents included should give a short introduction to several essential neural networks concepts. The first resource covers defining some key neural network terminology. As defined above, deep learning is the process of applying deep neural network technologies to solve problems. Deep neural networks are neural networks with one hidden layer minimum.

Over the past few years, Deep Learning (DL) architectures and algorithms have made impressive advances in fields such as image recognition and speech processing. Their application to Natural Language Processing (NLP) was less impressive at first, but has now proven to make significant contributions, yielding state-of-the-art results for some common NLP tasks. Named entity recognition (NER), part of speech (POS) tagging or sentiment analysis are some of the problems where neural network models have outperformed traditional approaches. The progress in machine translation is perhaps the most remarkable among all. In this article I will go through some advancements for NLP in 2017 that rely on DL techniques. I do not pretend to be exhaustive: it would simply be impossible given the vast amount of scientific papers, frameworks and tools available. I just want to share with you some of the works that I liked the most this year.

Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi, from the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and colleagues compared the performance of automated deep learning algorithms for detecting metastases in hematoxylin and eosin-stained tissue sections of lymph nodes of women with breast cancer with pathologists' diagnoses in a diagnostic setting. The researchers found that the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) ranged from 0.556 to 0.994 for the algorithms. The lesion-level, true-positive fraction achieved for the top-performing algorithm was comparable to that of the pathologist without a time constraint at a mean of 0.0125 false-positives per normal whole-slide image. Daniel Shu Wei Ting, M.D., Ph.D., from the Singapore National Eye Center, and colleagues assessed the performance of a DLS for detecting referable diabetic retinopathy and related eye diseases using 494,661 retinal images. The researchers found that the AUC of the DLS for referable diabetic retinopathy was 0.936, and sensitivity and specificity were 90.5 and 91.6 percent, respectively.

Earlier this week, Google's DeepMind team published a paper describing AlphaZero, a new generic reinforcement learning algorithm that has done some remarkable things. First, in about eight hours, it taught itself to beat AlphaGo, a human-trained AI system that beat the best human Go players in the world. It also taught itself chess and Shogi (known as Japanese chess) in about four hours and beat the best human-trained AI systems at those games. How did AlphaZero teach itself? The rules of the games were programmed into the system.