Archives for July, 2019 - Page 29

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

28 Lakh New Jobs Will Be Created In Rural India, Thanks To AI, IoT: Report

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Artificial intelligence and the internet of things are going to kick-start a revolution and create over 28 lakh jobs in rural India over the next 8-10 years, suggested a new report. The study also added that these jobs would have an annual worth of over ₹60,000 crore. Speaking at a seminar titled, The Impact of…

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04 Jul

Facebook Now Wants A Play In Robotics, Launches The Open-Source Framework

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Robotics has typically been constrained to experts in academia and industry with access to expensive and niche robotics systems. The robotics community has embraced a layered hierarchical software design from the early days and reusability has been a core design principle. With automation posing as an alternative to many mundane tasks, the knowledge of robotics…

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04 Jul

Centre Joins Hands With IBM To Use AI & Weather Prediction To Help Farmers

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Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare this week signed a Statement of Intent (SoI) for undertaking a pilot study with IBM India, where the company would generate solution in the field of agriculture through artificial intelligence and weather technology at the farm level to provide weather forecast and soil moisture information on pro bono basis.…

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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

AI Turns Casting Director, Can Now Decide The Perfect Blockbuster Movie Cast

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Showbiz is one of the most lucrative industries in the world, but there’s no specific formula for churning out blockbusters. That is why filmmakers from across the world are tapping artificial intelligence to take help with audience composition, CGI and even music. 20th Century Fox’s Merlin 20th Century Fox, one of the biggest film studios…

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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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04 Jul

Deep Neural Networks Can Now Simulate The Universe, But Scientists Can’t Explain How

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Researchers at the Simons Foundation have created a simulation of the universe that is both fast and accurate. The new artificial intelligence model used to run the simulation improves upon existing models in such a way that it can offer data on additional parameters even if it is not available in the training data. However,…

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03 Jul

Here’s What Facebook Is Giving Away For Free Now

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Big companies who are leveraging artificial intelligence are also updating their recommendation engines. For example, Amazon recently created an AI-powered real-time personalisation and shopping recommendation called Personalise.  Facebook, on the other hand, has portrayed its machine learning skills numerous over the past decade. This week, the social media giant announced the open source release of…

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03 Jul

Soap In London = Sandwich In Nepal: Does Object Recognition Work The Same Way For Everyone?

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The accuracy of state-of-the-art object detection systems is often under scanner for seemingly obvious reasons. From unlocking the phone to self-driving cars, object detection is almost everywhere.  As computer vision applications grow in popularity, it has become crucial to keep their flaws in check or at least detect them in the first place. These flaws…

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