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The First AI to Beat Pros in 6-Player Poker, Developed by Facebook and Carnegie Mellon
Facebook AI Research’s Noam Brown and Carnegie Mellon’s professor Tuomas Sandholm recently announced Pluribus, the first Artificial Intelligence program able to beat humans in 6 player hold-em poker. In the past years, computers have progressively improved, beating humans in checkers, chess, Go, and the Jeopardy TV show. Poker poses more challenges around information asymmetry and bluffing.
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Google Adds New Integrations for the What-If Tool on Their Cloud AI Platform
In a recent blog post, Google announced a new integration of the What-If tool, allowing data scientists to analyse models on their AI Platform – a code-based data science development environment. Customers can now use the What-If tool for their XGBoost and Scikit Learn models deployed on the AI Platform.
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Google Releases Post-Training Integer Quantization for TensorFlow Lite
Google announced new tooling for their TensorFlow Lite deep-learning framework that reduces the size of models and latency of inference. The tool converts a trained model's weights from floating-point representation to 8-bit signed integers. This reduces the memory requirements of the model and allows it to run on hardware without floating-point accelerators and without sacrificing model quality.
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Google Releases Deep Learning Containers into Beta
In a recent blog post, Google announced Deep Learning Containers, allowing customers to get Machine Learning projects up and running quicker. Deep Learning consists of numerous performance-optimized Docker containers that come with a variety of tools necessary for deep learning tasks already installed.
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Facebook Open-Sources Deep-Learning Recommendation Model DLRM
Facebook AI Research announced the open-source release of a deep-learning recommendation model, DLRM, that achieves state-of-the-art accuracy in generating personalized recommendations. The code is available on GitHub, and includes versions for the PyTorch and Caffe2 frameworks.
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Moving Embodied AI forward, Facebook Open-Sources AI Habitat
In a recent blog post, Facebook has announced they have open-sourced AI Habitat, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) simulation platform that is designed to train embodied agents, such as virtual robots. Using this technology, robots can learn how to grab an object from an adjacent room or assist a visually-impaired person in navigating an unfamiliar transit system.
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MIT Debuts Gen, a Julia-Based Language for Artificial Intelligence
In a recent paper, MIT researchers introduced Gen, a general-purpose probabilistic language based on Julia aimed to allow users to express models and create inference algorithms using high-level programming constructs.
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Front End Architecture in a World of AI
At QCon New York 2019, front end software engineer Thijs Bernolet of Oqton explained some of the challenges in creating front end architectures influenced by machine learning.
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AWS Enhances Deep Learning AMI, AI Services SageMaker Ground Truth, and Rekognition
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced updates to their Deep Learning virtual machine image, as well as improvements to their AI services SageMaker Ground Truth and Rekognition.
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Amazon Personalize Is Now Generally Available, Bringing ML to Customers
After the first announcement of Amazon Personalize during AWS re:Invent last November, the service is now generally available for all AWS customers. With this service, developers can add custom machine learning models to their application, including ones for personalized product recommendations, search results and direct marketing, even if they don’t have much machine learning experience.
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Democratizing AI for Business Applications, Microsoft Release AI Builder Preview
At the recent Business Applications Summit in Atlanta, Microsoft announced a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) service for the Power Platform called AI Builder. The new service brings AI capabilities to low code application and workflow services: Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow which run on top of the Common Data Service (CDS), an enterprise-grade datastore.
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MIT Researchers Open-Source AutoML Visualization Tool ATMSeer
A research team from MIT, Hong Kong University, and Zhejiang University has open-sourced ATMSeer, a tool for visualizing and controlling automated machine-learning processes.
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Amazon Enters Enterprise Content Management Space, Announces General Availability of Textract
In a recent press release, Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon Textract, a fully managed, machine learning service that extracts content from text and structured document data. Using Amazon Textract, customers can automate document workflows, index and catalog important information for use in downstream applications.
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Core ML 3 Extends Available Model Types, Adds On-Device Model Retrain
Announced at WWDC 2019, Core ML 3 introduces a number of new model types, many new neural network layer types, and adds support for on-device retraining of existing models using new data generated locally by the user.
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Amazon Announces New Cross-Skill Conversational Model for Alexa
At Amazon's re:MARS AI conference in Las Vegas, Alexa vice president Rohit Prasad demonstrated a new conversational model for the Alexa smart assistant. In this new model, Alexa can seamlessly transition between skills and remember the context of the conversation to resolve ambiguous references.