Data Science News This Week (2019-09-08)

The deep learning predictive AI algorithm developed by I Know First, a Fintech company that provides state of the art self-learning AI-based algorithmic stock market forecast solutions to uncover the best investment opportunities, has shown an accuracy of up to 95% in its predictions for Facebook (FB). That is according to aFacebook stock forecastevaluation report published by the company on August 25, 2019. The algorithm has demonstrated a higher accuracy rate for longer-term forecasts, as is often the case for predictive AI. "DeepFake" face-swapping technology created a buzz a couple of years back when a series of fake celebrity porn videos generated by the method spread rapidly across the Internet. Deepfake's unseemly side triggered widespread fears and concerns regarding misuse of the new tech, although its propagation was limited by the relatively advanced programming expertise required to perform convincing face-swapping. The recent explosion of interest in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning has been mirrored by an explosion in book titles on these same topics.