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Intel Open-Sources BigDL, Distributed Deep Learning Library for Apache Spark
Intel open-sources BigDL, a distributed deep learning library that runs on Apache Spark. It leverages existing Spark clusters to run deep learning computations and simplifies the data loading from big datasets stored in Hadoop.
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Amazon Introduces Rekognition for Image Analysis
At the AWS re:Invent conference, Amazon launched Rekognition, a managed service for Image Recognition and Analysis, powered by Deep Learning. The capabilities that Rekognition provides include Object and Scene detection, Facial Analysis, Face Comparison and Facial Recognition. The service attempts to extract meaning from visual content for the 1.2 Trillion pictures captured annually.
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Microsoft Launches Cloud Bot-as-a-Service Platform
This past November, Microsoft launched, what it is calling, the Industry’s First Cloud Bot-as-a-Service platform. The Azure Bot Service is powered by the Microsoft Bot Framework and has a serverless compute back-end built on Azure Functions. Using the Bot service allows developers to build conversational applications that plug into many popular chat applications.
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Building Conversational Apps Using Actions on Google and API.AI
Google has introduced Actions on Google which allow developers to build Google Assistant-based conversational apps, including integration with the Google Home device.
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Building Conversational and Text Interfaces Using Amazon Lex
At the recent AWS re:Invent conference, Amazon introduced a preview of their deep learning technology called Amazon Lex which can be used to build conversational interfaces using voice and text. Amazon Lex is powered on the same deep learning technology as Alexa, which is used in the portable Bluetooth and Wi-Fi enabled Amazon Echo speaker.
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AWS re:Invent Recap
At their annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, AWS unleashed a flurry of announcements about upcoming cloud services. Amazon outlined over two dozen new capabilities coming to the public cloud, including directly querying data in S3 object storage, building code as part of deployment pipelines, provisioning cheap virtual private servers, and moving data in bulk, ETL-style.
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CommAI, a Training and Testing AI System by Facebook
Facebook recently announced CommAI-env, a platform for training and evaluating an AI system. Inspired by A roadmap towards Machine Intelligence the system aims for teaching intelligent agents general learning capabilities that would serve as the groundwork for further, more specialized training by human or machine level interaction. The article provides a high level overview of current state and..
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Microsoft Pushes the Bot Framework, Google Buys API.ai
Microsoft has made available Bot Framework Preview to developers and Google has purchased API.ai, a bot engine with many integrations.
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DeepMind Unveils WaveNet - A Deep Neural Network for Speech and Audio Synthesis
DeepMind's WaveNet synthesizes speech and musical audio using parametric text-to-speech (TTS). DeepMind claims to have outperformed some of the leading TTS systems when rated subjectively by a group of test participants in a blind study.
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DeepMind AI Program Increases Google Data Center Cooling Power Usage Efficiency by 40%
DeepMind Sensor data captured from Google data centers yield a 40% increase in data center power usage efficiency and an overall site-wide 15% power usage efficiency gain using an AI program similar to an earlier game-like program of theirs that had learned how to play Atari games.
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Open Sourcing Artificial Intelligence Research
Today OpenAI, a non-profit artificial intelligence research company founded by InfoSys and Amazon Web Services, announced a beta for OpenAI Gym. Gym is a Python based toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms offered under the MIT license.
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Facebook Wants to Replace Apps with Bots
Facebook has opened up the Messenger Platform to be integrated with chatbots performing various tasks.
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IBM Expands Watson Cognitive APIs
IBM has recently expanded their collection of Watson Cognitive APIs to include beta updates to the Emotion and Tone Analysis APIs.
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AlphaGo: Google and DeepMind Publish Seminal AI Work
A game simulation at Google's Deep Mind defeated expert humans at Go last month in a breakthrough for AI. Go is considered one of the great unsolved problems in AI.
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Father of AI Marvin Minsky Dies
The father of AI, Professor Marvin Minsky, died on Sunday of a brain haemorrhage. InfoQ looks back at the contributions he made in inspiring a whole new field.