Bits & Bytes AWS introduces Amazon SageMaker Object2Vec. Entity embeddings are a powerful technique gaining traction among many ML users. With its new Object2Vec algorithm, AWS aims to make creating them more accessible for SageMaker users. Object2Vec is a highly customizable multi-purpose algorithm that can learn low-dimensional dense embeddings of high dimensional objects. Microsoft develops flexible...
This week we kicked off our AI Platforms podcast series with interviews with Facebook’s Aditya Kalro and Airbnb’s Atul Kale. We also announced our upcoming eBooks on the same topic. The podcasts and eBooks grew out of my recent observations about the state of ML and AI development in the enterprise. I wrote a bit...
Bits & Bytes ONNX Runtime for ML inference now in preview. Microsoft released a preview of the ONNX Runtime, a high-performance inference engine for Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) models. It is compatible with ONNX version 1.2 and comes in Python packages that support both CPU and GPU. Uber describes new platform for rapid Python ML development. Uber shared Michelangelo...
One of the exciting aspects of my day-to-day work involves understanding the way large companies are adopting machine learning, deep learning, and AI. I do quite a bit of this via interviews, and I’m excited to be able to bring you along for the ride by publishing many of them as podcasts. One of the...
This video is a recap of our Fast.ai x TWIML Online Machine Learning Study Group. In this session, we review Lesson 4, Feature Importance, Tree Interpreter. It’s not too late to join the study group. Just follow these simple steps: Head over to twimlai.com/community, and sign up for the programs you’re interested in, including the...
This video is a recap of our Fast.ai x TWIML Online Study Group. In this session, we review lesson one of the updated 2018 Deep Learning Course, Recognizing Cats and Dogs. It’s not too late to join the study group. Just follow these simple steps: Head over to twimlai.com/community, and sign up for the programs...
This video is a recap of our Fast.ai x TWIML Online Machine Learning Study Group. In this session, we review Lesson 3, Performance, Validation and Model Interpretation. It’s not too late to join the study group. Just follow these simple steps: Sign up for the TWIML Online Meetup, noting fast.ai in the “What you hope...
This video is a recap of our Fast.ai x TWIML Online Deep Learning Study Group. In this session, we review lesson three, Improving Your Image Classifier. It’s not too late to join the study group. Just follow these simple steps: Sign up for the TWIML Online Meetup, noting fast.ai in the “What you hope to...
This video is a recap of our October 2018 Americas TWIML Online Meetup. In this month’s community segment, we briefly discuss Entity Embeddings, the topic of the next month’s meetup, along with the recent announcement that MIT made a $1 billion commitment to address the global opportunities and challenges presented by the prevalence of computing...
This video is a recap of our Fast.ai x TWIML Online Machine Learning Study Group. In this session, we review lesson two, Random Forest Deep Dive. It’s not too late to join the study group. Just follow these simple steps: Sign up for the TWIML Online Meetup, noting fast.ai in the “What you hope to...
This video is a recap of our Fast.ai x TWIML Online Deep Learning Study Group. In this session, we review lesson three, Improving Your Image Classifier. It’s not too late to join the study group. Just follow these simple steps: Sign up for the TWIML Online Meetup, noting fast.ai in the “What you hope to...
This video is a recap of our Fast.ai x TWIML Online Machine Learning Study Group. In this session, we review lesson one, Introduction to Random Forests. It’s not too late to join the study group. Just follow these simple steps: Sign up for the TWIML Online Meetup, noting fast.ai in the “What you hope to...
Last week Facebook convened their inaugural PyTorch Developer Conference. Highlights of the conference included the release of PyTorch 1.0 beta and a host of ecosystem vendors announcing their support for the framework. Early last year TensorFlow was the presumptive winner of the deep learning framework wars. Since then, PyTorch has grown dramatically in developer mindshare. PyTorch’s...
This video is a recap of our October 2018 EMEA TWIML Online Meetup. In this month’s community segment we discuss the upcoming topics for the EMEA meetup group, along with our ongoing and upcoming Fast.AI study groups. We take a quick look at the newly released fastai v1 library, Jeremy Howard’s upcoming book, and the...
This video is a recap of our Fall Fast.ai x TWIML Online Deep Learning Study Group. In this session, we review lesson two, Convolutional Neural Nets. It’s not too late to join the study group. Just follow these three simple steps: Sign up for the TWIML Online Meetup, noting fast.ai in the “What you hope...
This video is a recap of our Fall Fast.ai x TWIML Online Deep Learning Study Group. In this session, we review lesson two, Convolutional Neural Nets. It’s not too late to join the study group. Just follow these three simple steps: Sign up for the TWIML Online Meetup, noting fast.ai in the “What you hope...
In this recap of our first session of the fall Fast.ai Deep Learning course study group. This week we review lesson one of the course, Recognizing Cats and Dogs. It’s not too late to join the study group. Just follow these three simple steps: Sign up for the TWIML Online Meetup, noting fast.ai in the...
Bits & Bytes Researchers develop AI to detect musical mood. Deezer researchers have developed a deep learning system which can identify the mood and intensity of songs based on audio and lyrics. Microsoft announces automated machine learning service. The new service aims to identify the best machine learning pipeline for the user’s labeled data. Automated ML is integrated with...
Last week I attended the Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando. One of the highlights of the experience was the opportunity to hear from Peter Lee, the corporate VP responsible for much of Microsoft’s AI research, their healthcare initiative, and the Microsoft Research labs in Beijing and, as of recently, Shanghai. One of the comments Peter...
Earlier this summer I posted about my daughter Malaika’s internship with TWIML, exploring the use of machine learning services to transcribe the podcast. She’s off enjoying her freshman year at college now, but she posted an update on her project a few weeks ago that I thought I’d share here. If you’re interested in the state of...
Bits & Bytes IBM launches tool aimed at detecting AI bias. IBM Research has launched the AI Fairness 360 Kit to scan for signs of AI bias and make recommendation adjustments. The open source Python package contains nine different algorithms, developed by the broader algorithmic fairness research community, to mitigate unwanted bias. Microsoft adds Tensorflow scoring to ML.Net....
This video is a recap of our September 2018 Americas TWIML Online Meetup. In this month’s community segment we discuss the upcoming topics for both the EMEA and Americas meetup groups, along with our recently started Fast.AI study group. We also briefly discuss episode #180 of the podcast, which featured Nick Bostrom, Professor and author...
Bits & Bytes Executive change at Google Cloud AI. Google Cloud AI head Dr. Fei-Fei Li has left the organization and will be returning to her professorship at Stanford. Dr. Andrew Moore, Dean of the School of Computer Science at CMU, will replace her by year end. Cisco unveils server for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Cisco has...
This week on the podcast we published my discussion with Oxford’s Nick Bostrom about his work in the growing field of AI safety and ethics. Bostrom heads up the Future of Humanity Institute, a multidisciplinary institute focused on answering big-picture questions for humanity with regards to the safe and ethical development and use of AI. He is,...
This video is a recap of our September 2018 EMEA TWIML Online Meetup. In this month’s community segment we briefly look at Remote Sensing and Auto Encoders for Weather Tracking. We also discuss the status of upcoming Fast.AI Study Groups, including groups looking to reengage in part 1 again, Starting Part 2, and the release...
This video is a recap of our Fast.ai x TWIML Online Study Group. In this session, we review part two of lesson of seven, Resnets from Scratch. It’s not too late to join the study group. Just follow these simple steps: Sign up for the TWIML Online Meetup, noting fast.ai in the “What you hope...
This video is a recap of our Fast.ai x TWIML Online Study Group. In this session, we review part one of lesson of seven, Resnets from Scratch. It’s not too late to join the study group. Just follow these simple steps: Sign up for the TWIML Online Meetup, noting fast.ai in the “What you hope...
This video is a recap of our Fast.ai x TWIML Online Study Group. In this session, we review part two of lesson of six, Interpreting Embeddings; RNNs from Scratch. It’s not too late to join the study group. Just follow these simple steps: Sign up for the TWIML Online Meetup, noting fast.ai in the “What...
This video is a recap of our Fast.ai x TWIML Online Study Group. In this session, we review part one of lesson of six, Interpreting Embeddings; RNNs from Scratch. It’s not too late to join the study group. Just follow these simple steps: Sign up for the TWIML Online Meetup, noting fast.ai in the “What...
This video is a recap of our Fast.ai x TWIML Online Study Group. In this session, we review part two of lesson of five, Collaborative Filtering; Inside the Training Loop. It’s not too late to join the study group. Just follow these simple steps: Sign up for the TWIML Online Meetup, noting fast.ai in the...
Bits & Bytes Diffbot launches knowledge graph as-a-service. The startup, whose roots are in web scraping, applied machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing to create a database of ‘all the knowledge of the Web,’ spanning over 10 billion entities and 1 trillion facts. Automatic transliteration helps Alexa find data across language barriers. Amazon...
I didn’t realize it until sitting down to write this, but today marks the one-year anniversary of the TWIML Online Meetup! Over the course of the past year, meetup members have had a chance to learn about and explore a wide range of topics related to machine and deep learning, participate in great discussions during our meetup sessions and...
Bits & Bytes IBM Research presents ‘DeepLocker,’ AI-powered malware. IBM researchers have developed DeepLocker, a new breed of highly targeted and evasive attack tools powered by AI. The malware remains dormant until identifying its target through indicators like facial recognition, geolocation and voice recognition. The project is meant to raise awareness of the possibilities when...
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at the inaugural FWD:DFW conference sponsored by Capital One Finance, the bank’s Plano-based auto finance arm. The event, which attracted speakers from around the country and across Capital One and attendees from throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth region, was focused on data-driven innovation. A recurring theme at...
Bits & Bytes Google announced a bunch of interesting ML/AI-related news at last week’s Next conference. Here are the highlights, along with a few other tidbits. Google launches new AI-powered contact center solution. The global market for cloud-based contact center solutions is expected to exceed $30B by 2023. It’s no surprise that Google wants a...
Bits & Bytes Elon Musk, DeepMind co-founders promise never to make killer robots. The founders have signed on to the Future of Live Institute’s pledge to develop, manufacture or use killer robots, which was published at the annual International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Stockholm, Sweden Huawei plans AI chips to rival Nvidia, Intel. The company is...
This video is a recap of our July 2018 TWIML Online Meetup. In this month’s community segment we look at the ongoing Fast.ai Study Group, the upcoming meetup presenter schedule, the recent Glow paper from the folks at OpenAI, and entity embeddings. In our presentation segment, Nicholas Teauge leads us in a discussion on the...
This video is a recap of our Fast.ai x TWIML Online Study Group. In this session, we review part one of lesson of five, Collaborative Filtering; Inside the Training Loop. It’s not too late to join the study group! Just follow these three simple steps: Sign up for the TWIML Online Meetup, noting fast.ai in...
This video is a recap of our Fast.ai x TWIML Online Study Group. In this session, we review lesson four, Structured, Time Series, & Language Models. It’s not too late to join the study group! Just follow these three simple steps: Sign up for the TWIML Online Meetup, noting fast.ai in the “What you hope...
It’s been an exciting summer on many fronts here at TWIML HQ. One of the things I’m most pumped up about is the work of our first intern, Malaika, a recent high school graduate (and my daughter ????). Malaika wrote a blog post introducing herself and her project, and just published her first project update. I’m including...
Bits & Bytes AI around the world. This interesting post summarizes the national AI strategies of the 15 nations that have formally published them. Baidu unveils AI chipset. Baidu launches Kunlun, China’s first “cloud-to-edge” AI chips. The chips were built to accommodate a variety of AI scenarios–such as voice recognition, search ranking, natural language processing, autonomous driving...
This video is a recap of our Fast.ai x TWIML Online Study Group. In this session, we review lesson four, Structured, Time Series, & Language Models. It’s not too late to join the study group! Just follow these three simple steps: Sign up for the TWIML Online Meetup, noting fast.ai in the “What you hope...
This video is a recap of our Fast.ai x TWIML Online Study Group. In this session, we review lesson three, Improving Your Image Classifier. It’s not too late to join the study group! Just follow these three simple steps: Sign up for the TWIML Online Meetup, noting fast.ai in the “What you hope to learn”...
Hey everybody! We’ve got some great news to share and also favor to ask! We’re in the running for this year’s People’s Choice podcast awards, in both the People’s Choice and Technology categories and we’d really appreciate your support! Below you’ll see a registration form to get you started. This is to create your listener...
Bits & Bytes IBM hosts first AI-Human debate. In a publicity stunt in the spirit of Deep Blue’s match with Garry Kasparov, or IBM Watson’s appearance on Jeopardy, IBM hosted the first ever live public debate between its Project Debater AI and a human in San Francisco last week. The company has published several datasets and technical papersoutlining...
One of the pleasures of my frequent travel is the opportunity to meet with TWIML listeners at conferences and in their home cities. During one such informal meetup last year I sat at a sidewalk cafe in Toronto sipping a coffee and chatting with a listener about his search for his next data science job....
Bits & Bytes DeepMind AI needs just a few images to construct a 3D model. Google DeepMind has developed Generative Query Network, a new algorithm that can render simple 3-dimensional scenes from static images. Amazon ships DeepLens; adds support for TensorFlow and Caffe AWS DeepLens is now shipping to a developer near you. The company...
This video is a recap of our June 2018 TWIML Online Meetup. In this month’s community segment we briefly cover the us use of machine learning in agriculture use cases, a recent Google “AI Principles” blog post, recently released researched coming from our friends at OpenAI: Improving language understanding with unsupervised learning. In our presentation...
This video is a recap of our Fast.ai x TWIML Online Study Group. In this session, we review lesson two, Convolutional Neural Nets. Topics covered include: • Learning Rate (LR) • Data Augmentation • Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) with Restart approach • Using Test Time Augmentation It’s not too late to join the study group....
In this recap of our second session of the Fast.ai Deep Learning course study group. This week we review lesson one of the course, Recognizing Cats and Dogs. It’s not too late to join the study group. Just follow these three simple steps: Sign up for the TWIML Online Meetup, noting fast.ai in the “What...
Bits and Bytes CMA CGM to use artificial intelligence on ships. Leading global shipper CMA CGM Group announced a development partnership with Shone, an early-stage startup building autonomous technologies for cargo ships. The agreement gives Shone access to CMA CGM’s vessels and data. Once completed, the Shone product will facilitate the work of crews in decision...
Much of my work involves acting as a babel fish of sorts, translating between worlds unable to easily understand one another. This often manifests itself as helping business leaders understand technology and technologists, but it goes the other way as well, and there are a good number of other communities that I’m often called on to help connect....
In this recap of our first session of the Fast.ai Deep Learning course study group, we review our timeline for the course, and have an extensive Q&A session. It’s not too late to join the study group. Just follow these three simple steps: Sign up for the TWIML Online Meetup, noting fast.ai in the “What...
Bits and Bytes Google won’t renew its military AI contract. According to company sources, Google is planning to close the military AI project after the current contract expires in March 2019. Google staff had expressed their unhappiness over project Maven earlier this year. Nvidia Introduces HGX-2 for HPC and AI. Nvidia has introduced a unified computing platform HGX-2 for...
TWIML x Fast.ai Practical Deep Learning for Coders Study Groups NEW: June – November ’19: Stanford CS224n On Saturday, June 22nd we launched a CS224n study group covering the Stanford CS224n: Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning course. This study group will meet weekly on Saturdays at 10 am Pacific Time until November 9th, each...
Bits and Bytes This week news from Google I/O and Microsoft Build have dominated the news. Here are the highlights: Oracle rolling out AI applications for manufacturing. The applications leverage machine learning and AI to sift through large amounts of data from production environments to identify and trace issues from production through to customer delivery. IBM granted...
Hi everyone! We’re super excited to share the second anniversary of This Week in Machine Learning & AI with all of you. What a fun ride! With your help, we’ve hit a bunch of exciting milestones over the past year. With over 2 million plays and 1000s of likes and shares, we’re reaching and teaching...
We recently ran a series of shows on differential privacy on the podcast. It’s an especially salient topic given the rollout of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which becomes effective this month, not to mention scandals like the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica breach and other attacks on private data. If you hadn’t previously (or haven’t yet) heard...
In this month’s community segment we chatted about the recent demo of Google’s Duplex, a automated appointment making chatbot. We talk about the implications of bots mimicking humans, if this tech qualifies as worthy of a passing Turing test grade and more. Community member @NicT also shares a medium post he wrote, inspired by our...
Bits and Bytes This week news from Google I/O and Microsoft Build have dominated the news. Here are the highlights: Google introduces ML developer kit. The SDK supports text recognition, face detection, barcode scanning, image labeling, and landmark recognition for developers integrating AI tech into iOS and Android. It also boasts the ability to run its models offline....
Bits and Bytes Forgive the Facebook news bias here. There were a few interesting announcements from their F8 developer conference last week. Google’s Kubeflow brings machine learning support to Kubernetes. The open-source Kubeflow project for Kubernetes’, Google’s open-source container-orchestration system, has actually been around for a few months now and has seen strong interest in the open-source...
I’m still a bit high off of the energy from this week’s TWIML AI Summit at the Interop ITX conference. What a great event! I’m very grateful for a super-engaged audience that made moderating the two days a true pleasure. Fun fact: I would never have believed this if you’d told me in advance, but...
Bits & Bytes Gartner pins “global AI business value” at $1.2 billion in 2018. Not sure what we’re supposed to do with that broadly-defined number beside putting it in our pitch decks, but I get it–AI just might be important ????. The firm describes three sources of AI value: customer experience enhancements, new revenues, cost reductions. Scientists...
Bits & Bytes Intel open sources nGraph neural network compiler. The newly open-sourced compiler, originally announced last summer and discussed on TWIML Talk #31, provides support for multiple deep learning frameworks while optimizing models for different hardware solutions. It supports six deep learning frameworks: TensorFlow, MXNet, neon, PyTorch, CNTK, and Caffe2. Google unveils augmented reality microscope. The prototype,...
In this month’s community segment we chatted about explainability, Carlos Guestrin’s LIME paper, Europe’s attempt to ban “untrustworthy” AI systems and finally, Community member Nicolas Teague shares a blog post he wrote entitled “A Sight for Obscured Eye, Adversary, Optics, and Illusions,” which explores the parallels between computer vision adversarial examples & human vision optical...
In my recent podcast with Facebook AI research scientist Moustapha Cissé, Cissé shared the insightful quote, “you are what you eat and right now we feed our models junk food.” Well, just like you can’t eat better if you don’t know what‘s in your food, you can’t train less biased models if you don’t know what’s...
Bits & Bytes Google develops AI that can pick out voices in a crowd. It is a deep learning audio-visual based model that uses both audio and video to isolate and enhance the targeted speaker while suppressing other sounds. The tech could be used in a wide range of applications from hearing aids to video conferencing. Microsoft...
My travel comes in waves centered around the spring and fall conference seasons. A couple of weeks ago, in spite of there being no signs of a true springtime here in St. Louis, things shifted into high gear with me attending the Scaled ML conference at Stanford and Nvidia GTC over the course of a few...
Bits and Bytes Apple hires Google’s AI head Google forms A.I. business unit. The latest in the AI talent wars, John Giannanderea, previously Google’s chief of search and AI, was hired to run Apple’s “machine learning and A.I. strategy.” It’s an important victory for Apple who has lagged behind in AI. Google took the change as an...
Last week on the podcast I interviewed Clare Gollnick, CTO of Terbium Labs, on the reproducibility crisis in science and its implications for data scientists. We also got into an interesting conversation about the philosophy of data, a topic I hadn’t previously thought much about. The interview seemed to really resonate with listeners, judging by...
Bits and Bytes Last week I attended the GTC – GPU Technology Conference in San Jose. NVIDIA made quite a few announcements so you’ll see quite a few of those in this week’s news run down. Microsoft speeds neural net inference with Project Brainwave. Microsoft Research’s Project Brainwave uses Intel FPGAs to accelerate deep learning...
I’ve mentioned my upcoming AI Summit event on the podcast recently. What I’m creating is an “executive AI boot camp” of sorts—a learning experience targeting IT, technology and (tech-savvy) business leaders who need to get smart on the broad spectrum of machine learning and AI opportunities in the enterprise. If this sounds like you, or...
Bits and Bytes Amazon text-to-speech service, Polly releases new Breath feature. The new feature more closely mirrors human speech patterns by adding in pauses and breaths. The breaths can be added both manually and via an automated algorithm. IBM sets 46x faster benchmark record with POWER9 and NVIDIA GPUs. The test was done using IBM’s SnapML AI software. They...
Healthcare applications of machine learning and AI have been in the news a bit more than usual recently, concurrent with the recent HiMSS conference in Las Vegas. HiMSS is a 45,000+ attendee conference dedicated to healthcare IT. Surprising no one, AI was a major factor at this year’s event. There was a whole subconference focused...
This video is a recap of our March 2018 TWIML Online Meetup. In our community segment we had a very fun and wide ranging discussion about freezing your brain, ML and AI in the healthcare space, and more. Community member Nicholas Teague, who goes by @NicT on twitter, also briefly spoke about his essay “A...
Bits and Bytes Google open sources exoplanet discovery AI. The project came out of a collaboration between Google Brain software engineer Chris Shallue and astrophysicist Andrew Vanderburg. The team was able to discover several new exoplanets and have now open-sourced their project to the public. I got a chance to talk with Chris Shallue about his work...
Bits & Bytes Google’s AI is being used on US military drone footage. The project provides the Department of Defense (DoD) with Tensorflow APIs to help flag and classify 1000s of hours of drone footage. The partnership has drawn criticism of both Google and the DoD. Microsoft partners with Esri to launch Geospatial AI on Azure. For...
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is an exciting area of AI research, with potential applicability to a variety of problem areas. We’ve discussed DRL several times on the podcast to date and just this week took a deep dive into it during the TWIML Online Meetup. (Shout out to everyone who attended!) Our presenter, Sean Devlin, did a...
If you’re like most line-of-business or IT leaders, you probably hear a lot about machine learning and AI. You know they’ll eventually have a huge impact on your company, your job, and even your personal life, but you’re not sure exactly what all the buzz is about. You’d like to better understand this stuff, and...
Bits & Bytes Philips and Microsoft launch AI products for healthcare. The HIMSS Conference is going on this week, so healthcare AI is in the news. Philips announced a suite of AI-powered tools for diagnostic imaging, patient monitoring, oncology, genomics and other applications. Meanwhile, Microsoft launched a number of new healthcare tools and products powered by AI and Azure....
You’ve probably seen the latest Boston Dynamics video to take the internet by storm. It shows one of their recent quadruped creations, the SpotMini, opening a door while being accosted by a company employee. Boston Dynamics’ videos are notorious for eliciting both excitement and fear across the internet. Nicholas King’s recently released parody of the Planet Earth documentary shows...
Bits & Bytes Google AI to predict heart disease with eye scans. The tech is being developed by Google’s health subsidiary Verily. It works by scanning the back of a patient’s eye, it then uses that image to deduce patient age, blood pressure, smoking status, and their risk of heart attack. It’s still in its early stages, though,...
I just got home last night from San Francisco, this time returning from the KeyBanc Capital Markets Emerging Technology Summit. As a participant in their MOSAIC Industry Leaders program, my role at the conference is to participate in one-on-one and group meetings with their institutional investor clients as a subject-matter expert on ML and AI....
Bits & Bytes Amazon to design its own AI chips for Alexa, Echo devices. This announcement follows similar moves made by rivals Apple and Google, both of which have developed custom AI silicon. Amazon, which reportedly has nearly 450 people on staff with chip expertise, sees custom AI chips as a way to make it’s AI devices...
#MyAI, Your AI A few weeks back, following my visit to CES, I asked you to share your thoughts on AI in our personal lives. We’ve seen some insightful responses so far and, as the contest comes to an end, I thought I’d share some of them. As a reminder, we asked listeners to record...
Bits & Bytes Nest returns to the Google nest in AI push. Google is bringing device maker Nest back under its control as it fights Amazon and Apple for a foothold in the AI-enabled smart home market. Your smart watch could one day detect diabetes. A recent clinical study demonstrated that the Apple Watch, using its heart rate sensor...
The Importance of Diversity in AI Hi there! Many have explored the link between corporate diversity and performance, notably including 2015 and 2017 studies by McKinsey. These studies, which looked at 366 and 1,000 public companies, respectively, across a range of countries and industries, found that gender, ethnic, and cultural diversity correlates to greater company profitability. Now, I’m not...
Bits and Bytes Google used ML to help block 700K bad apps on the Play Store. Thin on details but an interesting use case example, this blog post focuses on Google’s use of new machine learning models for identifying violent or hateful language in app store submissions and then flagging them for human review. NVIDIA brings V100...
Hi there! I wrote about my key takeaways from CES in one of last month’s newsletters. But something’s been gnawing at me ever since. Beyond the initial kid-in-a-candy-store feeling of exploring three giant buildings filled with new toys, I was left a bit disillusioned about the state of AI in our personal lives. Let me explain. On the...
Bits and Bytes Interesting tidbits from recent news: Microsoft develops AI powered sketch artist. The new bot, based on recent GAN research, is capable of generating “drawings” from caption-like text descriptions. Applications for this technology include the arts, design, and perhaps at some point, police sketches. Overall very cool. IBM and Salesforce announce Watson + Einstein collaboration....
Hey there! This week’s main article is a bit longer than usual, but I hope you’ll find it both interesting and thought provoking. Google’s New Cloud AutoML: What is it and broader implications Developing machine learning systems is an inherently iterative process and one which can be, as a result, tedious, time consuming and expensive....
This is a recap of the TWIML Online Meetup, held on Jan 16, 2018, we focus on the paper “Using deep learning and Google Street View to estimate the demographic makeup of neighborhoods across the United States” by Microsoft Research post doctoral researcher Timnit Gebru. We recap some of the major ML/AI Resolutions for 2018,...
Bits and Bytes Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies want to decode the human immune system. The partners aim to create individual disease diagnostics, and ultimately a universal diagnostic, from a simple blood test using immunosequencing and machine learning. In other Microsoft news, the company is launching a $33 million AI hub in Taiwan. Microsoft will collaborate on AI research with...
Last week I attended CES, the gigantic consumer electronics show in Vegas, for the first time. The conference attracts some 200,000 people and was, unsurprisingly, a bit of a mad house. But I was able to capture some solid interviews and see a lot of cool tech toys, so I left happy! As expected, AI...
Bits & Bytes A few interesting ML and AI related tidbits from around the web over the past week or so: China is building a huge AI-focused research and business park. The state-backed $2.1 billion technology park is part of China’s wider initiative to position themselves at the forefront of emerging markets. The 55 hectare park is...
Happy New Year! I hope you had a great one and that you’re as pumped about 2018 as I am. I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to relax a bit with family over the past few weeks, but it’s also been great to jump back into the podcast, my research and other projects! Before we turn to...
In this recap of the TWIML Online Meetup, held on Dec 13, 2017, we focus on the paper “Understanding Deep Learning Requires Rethinking Generalization” by Google Brain researchers Chiyuan Zhang, Samy Bengio and others. We also recap some of the major ML and AI advancements of the year, and take a look ahead to some...
Recently we hit a very exciting milestone for the podcast: One Million Listens!!! What an amazing way to close out an amazing year for the podcast. We’d hate to miss an opportunity to show you some love, so we’re holding another listener appreciation contest to celebrate the occasion. Tweet to us @twimlai using #TWIML1MIL to...
Bits & bytes New chips at NIPS. Intel Nervana’s forthcoming Neural Network Processor was shown publicly for the first time at this year’s NIPS, and the company provided an update on the NNP architecture on its blog. Meanwhile, Nvidia announced the Titan V, its latest GPU based on the Volta architecture. The new and improved GPU boasts...
Finally ready to be seen; enjoy this newsletter fifteen! Bringing AI Products to Market. Updates and more from TWIML & AI As the New Year approaches many of us are deep in the process of laying the groundwork for future goals and plans. For some of you that might mean figuring out how to get your...
