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12 Jul

Poker AI Pluribus Solves Imperfect Information Problem: AGI On The Horizon?

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As AI has evolved, the means to test it have changed as well. From solving pure cognitive problems and perfect information games like chess, AI has now progressed to take on imperfect information games such as Go. While this naturally represents the advancement of AI, it also shows the growing cognitive advantage of algorithms over…

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12 Jul

The Thin Ideological Line That Separates White Hat Hackers & Black Hat Hackers

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Most of the times, the word ‘hacker’ is labelled with a negative connotation. Movies and TV shows have cemented the image of a hacker as a person with glasses typing away at a screen with green text. However, the world of hacking has much more to it than what we see in mainstream pop culture.…

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11 Jul

The Brains Behind AI: How Pavlov’s Dogs & Weight Loss Tips Influenced Reinforcement Learning

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Artificial intelligence has, in essence, executed many psychological concepts in a digital form. Fittingly, one of the biggest parts of human intelligence is the ability to learn and improve upon past tries of the same task. While this has been extended into AI as machine learning, there exists a specific type of ML that borrows…

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06 Jul

Bad USBs Are The Reason Why You Shouldn’t Plug Just About Anything Into Your PC

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It is common operational security practice to not plug unverified or potentially unsafe USB drives into a PC, as it can be loaded with malware. Today, we take antivirus software for granted and let it conduct malware checks, leading to individuals being cavalier about plugging in USB devices. However, USB devices can be used as…

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04 Jul

Economic Survey 2019 Shows The Government’s Rising Interest Towards Data

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The Indian government has set a target of being a $5 trillion economy by the end of the current term in 2024. In a meeting before proposing the Budget for the next fiscal year, the Economic Survey tabled a plan to make India one of the world’s biggest economies in the next 5 years. One…

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04 Jul

Raspberry Pi vs. Rock Pi vs. Banana Pi: Which Is Best For AI & ML Tasks?

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The launch of the Raspberry Pi 4 has brought attention to the single board computer market as a whole. The Pi 4 breathed new life and brought a lot of new participants to the market, and with its low barrier for entry and use for ML tasks. With the initial launch of the Raspberry Pi,…

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04 Jul

Raspberry Pi vs. Rock Pi vs. Banana Pi: Which Is Best For AI & ML Tasks?

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The launch of the Raspberry Pi 4 has brought attention to the single board computer market as a whole. The Pi 4 breathed new life and brought a lot of new participants to the market, and with its low barrier for entry and use for ML tasks. With the initial launch of the Raspberry Pi,…

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04 Jul

How AI-Powered Crowd Counting Is Bringing Clarity To Hong Kong’s Political Turmoil

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The Hong Kong protests for pro-democracy and anti-extradition to China have taken over the public view for the past few weeks. One of the largest congregations of a population standing for a cause is sure to make the world stop and take notice. This year, scientists and researchers have begun looking at AI as a…

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04 Jul

Obscurity Is Out And Obfuscation Is In As Cybersecurity Moves Towards Muddying User Data

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Cybersecurity has long relied on hiding one’s identity as an integral part of protection. Owing to the fact that one’s personal information is the riskiest thing to lose online, cybersecurity generally focused on protecting this information through routing packets or providing false information. However, it seems as though this cannot be practised any longer. The…

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04 Jul

Webinar: Intel AI Presents Distributed Deep Learning Using Horovod

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Deep Learning is one of the most data-intensive tasks out there, owing to its requirement of large datasets. In addition to this, it is extremely hungry in terms of computational resources, requiring hardware acceleration and lots of processing power. To register for the webinar, click here. To optimise this, many take the path of distributing…

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