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How Apple Uses Neural Networks for Object Detection in Point Clouds
Apple invented a neural network configuration that can segmentate objects in point clouds obtained with a LIDAR sensor. Recently Apple joined the field of autonomous vehicles. Apple has now created an end-to-end neural network to segmentate objects in point clouds. This approach does not rely on any hand-crafted features or other machine learning algorithms other than neural networks.
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Tracks Announced for the Inaugural QCon.ai in 2018
Recently, the people behind QCon (InfoQ’s conference for senior developers, architects, and leaders in software) announced a new conference called QCon.ai.
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Start-up Vicarious Defeats CAPTCHA Security with AI Inspired by Brain’s Visual Cortex
Vicarious improved on neural network capable of solving CAPTCHA challenges using a novel network layout called Recursive Cortical Network. In contrast to a normal neural network, which starts without any knowledge before training, a RCN starts with knowledge of contours and surfaces. This prior knowledge facilitates model building and generalisability.
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Book Review Python Machine Learning - Second Edition
The book Python Machine Learning, second edition by Sebastian Raschka and Vahid Mirjalili, is a tutorial to a broad range of machine learning applications with Python. It provides a practical introduction to machine learning. The main revision to the first edition is neural network practices. There are now five chapters that discuss neural networks, and their implementation in TensorFlow.
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Jensen Huang Announces NVIDIA's New Projects at the GPU Technology Conference
Today the GPU Technology conference in Munich kicked off with a keynote by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA Holodeck, the Tensor RT 3 library, NVIDIA's Drive platform, and the Pegasus computer for autonomous taxis.
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Teachable Machine: Teach a Machine Using Your Camera in Your Browser
Teachable Machine is a browser application that you can train with your webcam to recognize objects or expressions. In the demo you use your webcam as input to recognize three different classes of objects or expressions. Based on your camera input, the site shows different gifs, plays prerecorded sounds, or plays speech. The demo can be found here: teachablemachine.withgoogle.com
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Microsoft Updates AI Services and Tools for Data Scientists and Developers
At the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft released several updates related to its Artificial Intelligence (AI) services and tools. These updates include the release of the Azure ML Experimentation service, Azure ML Model Management service, Azure ML Workbench and the general availability of Microsoft Cognitive Services.
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Google Researcher Invented New Technology to Bring Neural Networks to Mobile Devices
Recently, many companies released applications that use deep neural networks. For applications that should run without internet access, must be fast and responsible, or in which privacy is a concern, using networks on servers is not possible. Google researcher Sujith Ravis invented a novel way to train two neural networks, of which one efficient network can be used with mobile applications.
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Q&A with Movidius, a Division of Intel Who Just Launched the Neural Compute Stick
Recently Movidius (a division of Intel's New Technology Group) released the neural compute stick: a usb-based development kit that runs embedded neural networks. With this stick users can run neural network and computer vision models on devices with low computational power. InfoQ reached out to Gary Brown, marketing director for Movidius, Intel New Technology Group, and asked him a few questions.
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Scalable Chatbot Architecture with eBay ShopBot Shopping Assistant
Robert Enyedi, software engineer at eBay spoke at QCon New York 2017 Conference about ShopBot personal shopping assistant application. ShopBot, launched in late 2016 based on Facebook Messenger bot, leverages AI components and the eBay user data to provide shopping options in a conversational style.
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Salesforce Brings Cognitive to CRM, Launches 3 New Services
In a recent blog post, Salesforce announced the addition of three cognitive services to its Einstein artificial intelligence (AI) platform. The three new services enable detecting sentiment, intent and object detection. Salesforce customers can then use these services to automate insight and use predictive modelling within their CRM apps.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation Measuring Progress of Artificial Intelligence
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) started a document containing progress artificial intelligence (AI) research on multiple tasks. The goal of the document is to be the place for people to find progress on difficult tasks. Currently, many tasks don't have the metrics, datasets, and benchmarks to keep track of them. The EFF made a notebook to which researchers and developers can contribute.
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Q&A with the Developers of Obie: A Chatbot for Company Knowledge
Recently Tasytt launched Obie: a Slack chatbot for company knowledge. Teams can ask "what", "how", or "where" questions. Obie either finds the answer in one of your documents, or will ask you to provide him with the answer so he can give it next time someone asks the same question. InfoQ reached out to founder and CEO Chris Buttenham to ask him about Obie.
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Q&A with Greg Kurtzer from the GPU Technology Conference
Rags Srinivas talks to Greg Kurtzer, a serial Open Source contributor at the GPU Tech Conference.
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Facebook Publishes New Neural Machine Translation Algorithm
Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Research team published research results using a new approach for neural machine translation (NMT). Their algorithm scores higher than any other system on three established machine translation tasks.