AI for Dummies: History and Techniques
(E) An excellent and fun article to read, if you want to understand the recent developments and most popular applications of AI, Roger Parloff’s in Forbes, ”Why deep learning is […]
So Many AI and ML Product Announcements from the Big Players…
(T) There are so many AI and ML product announcements from the largest tech companies, that it is hard to keep up – competitive technology advantages are going to erode quickly: […]
From Mobile-First to AI-First?
(T) If you did not have the chance to attend Google IO this week at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, most of the videos of the talks are now […]
Playing the Go Game with Deep Neural Networks and Tree Search
(T) Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer programmed with brute force analysis, defeated Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997 over six games. IBM’s Watson won Jeopardy! in 2011. This week the […]
NIPS 2015 Conference in Montreal
(T) Last week in Montreal, was the twenty-ninth annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). NIPS is probably one of the most well-attended machine learning and computational neuroscience conferences. […]
Baidu Research in Artificial Intelligence
(T) I attended last week three presentations from the Baidu AI Lab in Sunnyvale, part of the SF Big Analytics meet-up in San Francisco. Professor Andrew Ng’s Stanford University Professor […]
Google Research in Deep Learning
(T) I attended last month a presentation from Ilya Susdskever from Google Research about Deep Leaning, part of the SF Big Analytics meet-up in San Francisco. Ilya, along with Alex […]
Playing Games with Reinforcement Learning
(T) The DeepMind Technologies team in London has just published a paper in Nature: “human-level control through deep reinforcement learning”. The Deep Neural Network called Deep Q-Network (DQN) combines a Reinforcement Learning algorithm with Experience Replay […]
Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm for K-Means Clustering
(T) Niels Bohr believed “that anyone who thinks they can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy doesn’t understand it” while Albert Einstein couldn’t accept quantum mechanics because as he said, “I […]
Reducing the Requirements on Computation for Big Data by Leveraging Statistical Inference
(T) One of the San Francisco machine learning meet-ups invited Professor Michael Jordan from UC Berkeley for a talk at Yelp this week. Professor Jordan is an active researcher in machine learning […]
The Rise of Social Robots – Meet Pepper the Emotional Robot
(E) Charismatic Aldebaran’s CEO Bruno Maisonniers recently launched his latest humanoid robot: Pepper. Pepper was designed for the Japanese market, and for Aldebaran’s owner Softbank. Pepper wants to be first and foremost […]
The Rise of Social Robots – Meet Jibo the Family Robot
(E) Famous M.I.T. Professor Cynthia Breazeal, took a leave of absence from the Media Lab to work and launch her company and first commercial robot Jibo. She also announced a crowdfunding campaign […]
Microsoft Deep Learning Image Classifier
(T) At its 15th annual Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft demonstrated its latest deep learning image classifier named Project Adam. Adam was demonstrated on a smartphone to identify the exact breed […]
Would you Want an Emotional Relationship with a Digital Mind?
(T) By 2029, you might be able to have an emotional relationship with a “Digital Friend” on the Internet, on your desktop, or who knows with your wearable as did […]
Deep Dive into Deep Learning
(T) There are many objects which look like a bicycle but are not a bicycle. A person will make the difference between all those objects and tell accurately which one […]
Deep Dive into Machine Learning
(T) The goal of Machine Learning (ML) is to develop algorithms for making predictions from an existing data set. First, you start by collecting the data and analyzing it. Second, […]
Smart Clothing and Affective Computing
(T) Over a week ago, I received an interesting article from an online magazine French District about “le vetement intelligent” or “smart clothing”… “Il fut un temps où le pull tenait chaud, le […]
Are Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks Hot Again?
(T) Artificial intelligence, neural networks, quantum computing, bioinformatics…those are exciting fields for computer scientists. But while quantum computing and bioinformatics are still new, artificial intelligence and neural networks have been […]
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