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Building Recommender Systems with Machine Learning and AI

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Learn how to build machine learning recommender systems from one of Amazon's pioneers in the field. Updated with Tensorflow Recommenders (TFRS) and Generative Adversarial Networks for recommendations (GANs) Learn how to build machine learning recommender systems from one of Amazon's pioneers in the field. Frank Kane spent over nine years at Amazon, where he managed and led the development of many of Amazon's personalized product recommendation technologies. You've seen automated recommendations everywhere - on Netflix's home page, on YouTube, and on Amazon as these machine learning algorithms learn about your unique interests, and show the best products or content for you as an individual. These technologies have become central to the largest, most prestigious tech employers out there, and by understanding how they work, you'll become very valuable to them.


How to Use Artificial Intelligence in Marketing

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been invading our daily lives without us fully realizing it. When you wake up in the morning, you may ask Alexa to give you a run-down of your daily schedule. When you drive to work using Waze, the app is using a machine-learning algorithm to provide the best route for you. When you watch a movie or a show on Netflix or make a purchase on Amazon, the platforms use AI to make content or product recommendations for you. If Netflix can use AI to make content recommendations for us, businesses and enterprises can also use AI to make personalized content recommendations when prospects visit their websites.


How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love AI

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BARCELONA, CATALONIA, SPAIN - 2019/02/27: The humanoid robot Pepper of the American company ... [ ] CloudMinds is seen shaking hands with a visitor during the MWC2019. The MWC2019 Mobile World Congress opens its doors to showcase the latest news of the manufacturers of smart phones. The presence of devices prepared to manage 5G communications has been the hallmark of this edition. Robots are stealing our jobs! AI is making us obsolete!


IBM Watson-Powered AI Virtual Assistant Helps Visitors on the TD Precious Metals Digital Store

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Investors looking to diversify their portfolios and coin collectors looking to add a new treasure to their collection are familiar with the benefits and value that precious metals can offer. To help make the purchasing process easier, IBM worked with TD Securities to launch an AI-based virtual assistant powered by IBM Watson Assistant that can help customers with inquiries on the TD Precious Metals digital store, including frequently asked questions. The TD Precious Metals digital store allows customers to buy physical gold, silver and platinum bullion and coins online from the comfort of their home. The new virtual assistant, now available as a feature on the TD Precious Metals digital store, provides customers with a convenient self-service option, available 24/7, for frequently asked questions about TD Precious Metals. Customers type their questions into the virtual assistant and receive an instant written response, along with links to help further assist them.


How AI is Transforming Hospitality Industry

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Webomaze Technologies, Co-Founded by Ravi and Vinika, is the first choice of customers while looking for SEO Services. A few years back, AI in hospitality was merely a dream. But now, it is unfolding many hidden revenue opportunities. The global smart hospitality market is expanding incredibly fast, and is expected to reach USD 44.38 billion by 2026. What is so special about this? With Covid in the picture for so long, you can't ignore the importance of contactless deliveries.


StoryBuddy: A Human-AI Collaborative Chatbot for Parent-Child Interactive Storytelling with Flexible Parental Involvement

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Despite its benefits for children's skill development and parent-child bonding, many parents do not often engage in interactive storytelling by having story-related dialogues with their child due to limited availability or challenges in coming up with appropriate questions. While recent advances made AI generation of questions from stories possible, the fully-automated approach excludes parent involvement, disregards educational goals, and underoptimizes for child engagement. Informed by need-finding interviews and participatory design (PD) results, we developed StoryBuddy, an AI-enabled system for parents to create interactive storytelling experiences. StoryBuddy's design highlighted the need for accommodating dynamic user needs between the desire for parent involvement and parent-child bonding and the goal of minimizing parent intervention when busy. The PD revealed varied assessment and educational goals of parents, which StoryBuddy addressed by supporting configuring question types and tracking child progress. A user study validated StoryBuddy's usability and suggested design insights for future parent-AI collaboration systems.


The Sex My New Boyfriend Just Admitted He Had in His 20s Feels Like a Huge Red Flag

Slate

How to Do It is Slate's sex advice column. Send it to Stoya and Rich here. I have been dating my boyfriend for about 10 months now. I'm struggling with information he shared with me very early on. At the beginning of our relationship, he told me that he has seen escorts before.


AI, ML, or DL โ€“ learn what it means

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AI essentially works to develop machines that are self-reliant and can think and act like humans. Examples of AI are machine translation such as Google Translate, speech recognition apps such as Google Assistant or Siri, and AI robots such as Aibo and Sophia. ML looks to solve business problems through predictive models built on analytics and computer models. The work of a machine learning engineer is seen in sales forecasting, stock price predictions, and banking fraud analysis, among others. A subset of ML, DL works with artificial neural networks employing algorithms inspired by the structure and working of the human brain. DL algorithms can work with huge amounts of both structured and unstructured data; ML, in comparison, typically requires structured data. Use cases include the detection of cancerous tumors and other objects and the coloring of images.


Dark Side of AI Assistants: Are Virtual Assistants Safe?

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To hackers, types of artificial intelligence like voice and video assistants can be an entryway into individuals' lives and actual conditions, or go about as irritating gadgets, snooping on discussions, in the ultimate intrusion of privacy. As their omnipresence increases inside organizations, AI assistants are a growing target for spyware, same as the attacks we've seen on online voice and video calls, where probably private group chats were found by directing a simple Google search, which means anybody could participate. Voice control carries the added potential for exploitation with the chance of sneaking in malware and spyware by accidentally adding new "skills" to Alexa through "trigger" words.


Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite is up to $45 off, plus the rest of the week's best tech deals

Engadget

Many of Amazon's gadgets went on sale at the start of this week and continue to be discounted today. Key among them are both new Kindle Paperwhites -- the standard version and the Signature Edition -- along with the second-generation Echo Show 8 and the Fire TV Cube. On top of that, Apple's AirPods Pro are on sale for $175 and the 2021 Apple TV 4K remains discounted to $160. Here are the best tech deals from this week that you can still get today. The Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition is on sale for $145, which is an all-time low.