Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

Sri Lanka’s first agriculture-based app to run on Microsoft Azure

Source: colombogazette.com Govipola, the cloud-based mobile app designed to facilitate direct selling platforms for fruit and vegetable farmers—a move aimed at cutting out middlemen and containing food inflation in Sri Lanka, will run on Microsoft Azure, a collection of cloud-based services for building reliable, scalable, and maintainable applications. The platform lowers the total cost of Read More

Microservices

Is microservices adoption right for your organization?

Source: searchapparchitecture.techtarget.com Microservices architecture became popular for its ability to create applications that are flexibly scalable, resilient and independently deployable. But despite the on-paper benefits, not all organizations will gain much from microservices adoption, due to the inherent operational complexity of these architectures. That’s what makes it important to make the transition to microservices a Read More

Reinforcement Learning

HOW TO IMPROVE GENERALISATION IN DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING?

Source: analyticsindiamag.com A team at NYU and Modl.ai have posited in their recent work, that simple image processing techniques (listed below) can improve the generalisation in deep reinforcement learning systems.  RL systems are typically trained on gaming platforms which are test beds for teaching agents new tasks through visual cues. By exploiting the field of views of Read More

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence: Tackling the risks for consumers

Source: moderndiplomacy.eu Artificial intelligence and automated decision making processes can pose certain threats to consumers. Find out how the European Parliament wants to protect them. What is artificial intelligence and why can it be dangerous? As learning algorithms can process data sets with precision and speed beyond human capacity, artificial intelligence (AI) applications have become Read More

Human Intelligence

Tickeron Announces Unprecedented AI Feature Precalculating Trading Success Odds

Source: aithority.com Tickeron, an artificial and human intelligence platform delivering unparalleled trading insights and analysis, announces its AI-driven feature generating instant historic and predictive analysis by precalculating the odds of success for self-directed investors and investment advisors. Tickeron is a subscription-based market intelligence platform giving access to the latest trading news and AI-generated predictions. This Read More

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

Microsoft speeds up PyTorch with DeepSpeed

Source: sg.channelasia.tech Microsoft has released DeepSpeed, a new deep learning optimisation library for PyTorch, that is designed to reduce memory use and train models with better parallelism on existing hardware. According to a Microsoft Research blog post announcing the new framework, DeepSpeed improves PyTorch model training through a memory optimisation technology that increases the number of possible parameters Read More

Data Robot

Robot analysts outwit humans on investment picks, study shows

Source: livemint.com NEW YORK : They beat us at chess and trivia, supplant jobs by the thousands, and are about to be let loose on highways and roads as chauffeurs and couriers. Now, fresh signs of robot supremacy are emerging on Wall Street in the form of machine stock analysts that make more profitable investment choices Read More

Microservices

Tufin Unifies Management of Cloud Cybersecurity Policies

Source: securityboulevard.com Tufin today announced the availability of Tufin SecureCloud, which combines two existing offerings to manage cybersecurity policies for both monolithic applications and emerging microservices-based application environments. Company CTO Reuven Harrison said rather than moving forward with separate products, previously known as Tufin Orca and Tufin Iris, Tufin is aiming to appease IT organizations Read More

Google AI

ZeroFOX launches AI-powered Advanced Email Protection for Google and Microsoft platforms

Source: helpnetsecurity.com ZeroFOX, the leading provider of public attack surface protection, announced it has extended its artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform to now include advanced protection capabilities to solve intractable challenges in the cloud email security market and complement existing email security. The ZeroFOX Advanced Email Protection suite includes capabilities that address Business Email Compromise Read More

Reinforcement Learning

Researchers develop technique to increase sample efficiency in reinforcement learning

Source: venturebeat.com In reinforcement learning, the goal generally is to spur an AI-driven agent to complete tasks via systems of rewards. This is achieved either by learning a mapping (a policy) from states to actions that maximize an expected return (policy gradients), or by inferring such a mapping by calculating the expected return for a given Read More

Big Data

Big data, AI build defensive line amid virus outbreak

Source: ecns.cn Zheng Wei, who is in charge of a property management company in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, just received a text message. It read that there was a householder, whose place of residence is registered in virus-hit Hubei Province, just used his access card at the entrance of his apartment building. “He Read More

Data Mining

Computer science team creates coding program to interpret Chinese social media texts

Source: ksusentinel.com Kennesaw State Professor of computer science Dr. Dan Lo and his team of students created a program last semester to data mine Chinese social media sites in partnership with the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China. Lo said the program retrieves and deciphers posts on popular Chinese social media outlets like Weibo and WeChat. Lo’s team Read More

Deep Learning

RESEARCHERS DEVELOPED DEEP LEARNING FOR AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION OF SLEEP STAGES

Source: analyticsinsight.net Deep learning which is also termed as hierarchical learning or deep structured learning uses a layered algorithmic architecture to analyze data. Its peculiarity helps organizations and researchers achieve the unachievable in a most innovative manner. Recently, researchers at the University of Eastern Finland developed a new deep learning model that can identify sleep stages Read More

Data Science

The People & Systems Behind Data Science

Source: webpronews.com Artificial Intelligence is on the rise, as well as the market for people and science composing the technology. To be clear, Data science is the use of math, data, AI, and The Scientific Method. Data science allows data scientists to solve complex problems. Data scientists do a lot and have the reach to Read More

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

Microsoft speeds up PyTorch with DeepSpeed

Source: infoworld.com Microsoft has released DeepSpeed, a new deep learning optimization library for PyTorch, that is designed to reduce memory use and train models with better parallelism on existing hardware. According to a Microsoft Research blog post announcing the new framework, DeepSpeed improves PyTorch model training through a memory optimization technology that increases the number of possible parameters Read More

Big Data

EU: On the Origin of Big Data – is D.A.R.W.I.N the future?

Source: jdsupra.com A joint task force of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) has proposed a new approach to the use of “big data” in EU medicines regulation. The report, from the Big Data Task Force (BDTF) (accessed here), contributes to the EMA and HMA’s “EU Network Strategy” to 2025 and Read More

Reinforcement Learning

How AI will revolutionise the boardroom through these 3 breakthroughs

Source: e27.co CEOs are confronted daily with the speed of technology evolution, under pressure to transform organisations to ensure they stay competitive, relevant and prepared for the next wave of change. Business leaders are also challenged to be informed about new technology and resources and to determine the best for their organisations. All while also Read More

Data Robot

DeepMind trains robots to insert USB keys and stack colored blocks

Source: venturebeat.com Robots perform better at a range of tasks when they draw on a growing body of experience. That’s the assertion of a team of researchers hailing from DeepMind, who in a preprint paper propose a technique called reward sketching. They claim it’s an effective way of eliciting human preferences to learn a reward function — Read More

Deep Learning

Deep learning godfathers Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun say the field can fix its flaws

Source: zdnet.com Artificial intelligence has to go in new directions if it’s to realize the machine equivalent of common sense, and three of its most prominent proponents are in violent agreement about exactly how to do that. Yoshua Bengio of Canada’s MILA institute, Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto, and Yann LeCun of Facebook, who Read More

Data Science

WHAT SKILLS DATA SCIENTISTS NEED TO MASTER IN 2020?

Source: analyticsinsight.ne Without the help of experts, it is impossible to churn out the appropriate insights from the given data across any organization. The interdisciplinary field of data science is growing with great relevance and so do data scientists. They deal with processes and systems to extract knowledge or insights from large amounts of data. It was Read More

Human Intelligence

AI could be a game changer for bottle design

Source: plasticstoday.com Differentiation is the name of the game when marketing products to consumers.  Differentiation’s mandatory companion is performance. Both of these are driven by creative individuals who use the latest technological tools to create viable, commercial packages that will deliver desired attributes all the way to their expiration date. However, there is room for Read More

Microservices

Popular microservices testing tools developers should know about

Source: searchapparchitecture.techtarget.com In a microservices architecture, numerous small, independent services integrate as needed to form an application. As such, development teams must monitor every microservice, and the path through them, to ensure the application does what it is designed to do. This is where microservices testing tools enter the picture. To figure out how to Read More

Artificial Intelligence

Six Key Steps to Ensure Data Quality for Artificial Intelligence

Source: solutionsreview.com As a growing number of companies are looking to build out and leverage artificial intelligence solutions across their organization, they’re often delayed due to poor data quality that exist across their business operations. This quality deficiency prevents them from proceeding with their intended AI rollout. Once AI is fully implemented, it can improve Read More

Microservices

KT Selects Amdocs’ New Cloud-native and Microservices-based Solution to Launch New 5G Services

Source: thefastmode.com Amdocs this week announced that KT Corporation, the largest quad-play service provider in South Korea, has started to upgrade and migrate their existing product catalog to Amdocs CatalogONE.  This solution enables operators to create, deploy, test and launch new services at a much faster pace and quickly take advantage of new 5G use cases Read More

AI-ONE

Benefits and Risks of Artificial Intelligence

Source: techspective.ne We might still be decades away from the superhuman artificial intelligence (AI), like sentient HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, but our fear of robots having a mind of their own and acting at their own (free) will and using it against humankind is nonetheless present. Even some of the greatest minds Read More

Big Data

Data is the new gold for 21st century’

Source: tribune.com.pk LAHORE: The future belongs to nations that excel in imminent technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence and robotics, said The Urban Unit CEO Khalid Sherdil. Sherdil told The Express Tribune that following adoption of big data by entire countries, a digital divide would emerge in the world. This digital divide would separate Read More

Data Science

Here is a peek at trending roles in Data Science across industries

Source: indiatoday.in Hailed as the sexiest career of the 21st century, Data Science has emerged as one of the most sought-after and competitive fields of today. As the accuracy and efficiency of data-driven decision-making increases, the demand for data science experts has seen exponential growth. While new jobs and roles are cropping up every day, Read More

Artificial Intelligence

China turns to artificial intelligence, data in fight against coronavirus

Source: newindianexpress.com BEIJING: A man who had travelled to Wuhan — the central city at the heart of China’s coronavirus crisis — was surprised when police showed up at his door after he returned home, asking to check his temperature. The man, who had quarantined himself at home in Nanjing, eastern Jiangsu province, said he Read More

Deep Learning

New model to identify sleep stages

Source: telanganatoday.com Helsinki: A new learning model for identifying sleep stages with exact precision as that of a physician has been identified by a recent study. The study was conducted by researchers of the University of Eastern Finland. Sleep is manually classified into five stages, which are wake, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and three Read More

Machine Learning

VA doctors are using artificial intelligence to diagnose cancer

Source: militarytimes.com A team of researchers at the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital in Tampa, Florida, is revolutionizing the way cancer is documented by enlisting the help of a computer to diagnose the disease in one of the largest patient populations in the nation: veterans. Sophisticated artificial intelligence is capable of drastically altering how cancer Read More