It is a sign of the times that in 2018, the UK Government established a new unit to tackle fake news, and every day seems to reveal more about the dirty tricks played by companies like Cambridge Analytica, including deliberately spreading misinformation, to try and influence electorates in favour of whoever happens to be paying them. This...
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Another school shooting. Another round of demands for answers. Another debate over the same set of options—from gun control to arming teachers, to improving the mental healthcare system. The End Result: Still More School Shootings. However, a real solution to this crisis may be within reach due to the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies...
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NVIDIA’s artificial intelligence technology (AI) is starting to make inroads into the oil and gas business, with the company’s graphics processing units (GPUs) now being used to boost productivity and reduce the costs of finding, extracting, processing and transporting fossil fuels. In 2018, NIVIDA has announced two partnerships that involve using GPUs and related technologies...
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Most people have a way of building their own machine learning textual classifiers; you can use cloud APIs, learn Tensorflow or roll your own, or use Machine Box. As founder of the latter, it won’t surprise you to learn that in this article I am going to tackle log data using Classificationbox — a Docker container that...
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Artificial intelligence chips will be integrated into all new smartphones within five years, as the focus in the wireless business shifts away from flashy hardware features and toward innovations designed to promote ease of use and increased functionality, according to Deloitte. In 2017, the first year that high-end smartphones began integrating artificial intelligence chips, 300...
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The imgclass tool lets you take a folder full of images, and teach a classifier that you can use to automatically classify future images. It works by creating a model and posting 80% of your example images toClassificationbox, which then learns what various classes of images look like, and what their shared characteristics are. The remaining images...
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Using your face to authorize to unlock your phone is going to became popular soon, but on the web it has not been seen a lot, maybe because it’s not trivial to implement. Is it possible to implement face verification using just HTML5, Javascript and some Go? Yes! I did it in an hour using...
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UPDATE: We officially support video right now, using Videobox, so you don’t have to extract frames yourself to use Machine Box, Videobox can do it for you. This blog post is now informative, if you want to do it yourself. If you have lots of video content but don’t know who appears in them, you...
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One of the reasons why text-based forms of communication are popular is their searchability; it’s easy to use search tools to comb through written words and find specific keywords and phrases. However, when it comes to spoken words, this kind of automated searching was impossible—until now. A new app launched in February makes it easy...
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Researchers have devised a deep-learning algorithm that uses AI prediction techniques to forecast cardiovascular risk based on scans of patients’ retinas. A team of researchers from Google, Verily Life Sciences and the Stanford School of Medicine trained their deep-learning algorithm using data from 284,335 patients. The algorithms were able to predict cardiovascular (CV) issues with...
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