24 Jan

Google To Verify Political Ads For Lok Sabha Elections 2019, Data Science To Play Big Role

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In a bid to bring more transparency to the upcoming Google this week announced an updated election advertisement policy where the search engine giant would be providing comprehensive information about who is purchasing these political ads and how much are spending on it. In fact, Google will require advertisers to provide a “pre-certificate” issued by the…

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24 Jan

AI-Based Predictive Tools By IIT-M To Help Indian Army Detect Stone Pelters In Jammu & Kashmir

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Students from IIT Madras have developed a technology that uses artificial intelligence to identify stone pelters in Jammu and Kashmir for the security personals of the Indian Army. By using footages from the CCTV cameras, action recognition algorithms, live imaging and crowd density map, the device will be able to predict any unusual event, including…

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24 Jan

Microsoft CTO Believes AI Will Be The Great Equaliser In The Future

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Microsoft has emerged as one of the biggest players in AI. Now, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott recently appeared on an interview conducted by a leading tech mag, where he detailed his opinion on why AI is important, and how understanding it will enable people to be better citizens of an evolved world. He also spoke…

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24 Jan

Register For Intel Deep Learning & Vision At The Edge Workshop

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Registration Link: https://goo.gl/aiz9qe Register and attend one of 2019’s most happening data science meetups in Bengaluru. Spend a whole day with a great community knowing more about deep learning from experts at Intel. Invite friends to come along. Meet Intel experts at the Intel Deep Learning and Vision at the Edge workshop to learn more about Intel’s…

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24 Jan

This Social Entrepreneur Is Closing The AI Education Gap By Reaching Out To Rural India

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It’s isn’t every day that you come across a social entrepreneur who’s passionately responding to the global challenge of upskilling in artificial intelligence and robotics by addressing the issue at the grassroot level. As AI, machine learning and robotics begin to take a leading role in day-to-day governance and organisational level, the upskilling in these…

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24 Jan

Can Uber’s POET Address AI’s Open-Ended Endeavours?

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Embracing the open-ended is considered by many futurists and experts, to be the last grand frontier for the artificial intelligence to invade. The concept of the open-ended can be explained in terms of natural evolution. Just like the way a species that has survived over millennia, makes course correction under new environments, machines too will…

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23 Jan

What Are Activation Functions And When To Use Them

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  These action potentials can be thought of as activation functions in the case of neural networks. The path that needs to be fired depends on the activation functions in the preceding layers just like any physical movement depends on the action potential at the neuron level. Deep neural networks are trained, by updating and…

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23 Jan

How Important Are Semantic Networks In Artificial Intelligence

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A semantic network is a graphic notation for representing knowledge in patterns of interconnected nodes. Semantic networks became popular in artificial intelligence and natural language processing only because it represents knowledge or supports reasoning. These act as another alternative for predicate logic in a form of knowledge representation. The structural idea is that knowledge can…

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23 Jan

5 Ways In Which Data Warehouses Have Affected Our Everyday Lives

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The volume of data produced over the last decade is possibly more most of the information gathered throughout history. Stored data is reported to grow nearly three times just in the next few years. Here we list five such areas where data warehouses have really changed the way they were and influenced our life. Data-Driven…

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23 Jan

Machine Learning Makes Amazon’s Alexa Smarter, Reduces Error Rate By 8%

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Alexa, Amazon’s poster child for connected home devices, has recently received yet another update. Researchers have developed a method of implementing improved natural language processing in the model, cutting the error rate by 8%. This was done through a combination of transfer learning and utilising AI to generate ‘embeddings’ of words. Transfer learning was implemented…

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