How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself.
Artificial Intelligence Course Creates AI Teaching Assistant
College of Computing Professor Ashok Goel teaches Knowledge Based Artificial Intelligence (KBAI) every semester. It’s a core requirement of Georgia Tech’s online master’s of science in computer science program. And every time he offers it, Goel estimates, his 300 or so students post roughly 10,000 messages in the online forums — far too many inquiries for him and his eight teaching assistants (TA) to handle.
Source: Artificial Intelligence Course Creates AI Teaching Assistant
Amazon Web Services Versus Microsoft Azure, Google, Oracle
The cloud computing market is dominated by some familiar names. Amazon’s cloud service is its most profitable unit. Microsoft has pegged its future to its cloud computing businesses, leading to a very enthusiastic response from Wall Street. Google, too, is betting big on cloud computing as something that could be bigger than its advertising business.
Source: Amazon Web Services versus Microsoft Azure, Google, Oracle – Business Insider
Experimental Datasets Available from Google
Want to get started in machine learning? Google has you covered with high-quality data sets, both big and small.
You can always count on Google to have data — tons of it, generated by the users who interact with and upload content to its services.
Source: 4 Google data sets to kickstart machine learning | InfoWorld
Why A.I. is the New Electricity
Apple has now rolled out its shiny new iPhones. On Sept. 12, Apple executives predictably pronounced the latest phones “revolutionary.” But the real revolution is happening under the surface and behind the scenes.
Source: The latest iPhones show why A.I. is the new electricity | Computerworld
Intel Wiped Out in Mobile. Can this guy help it catch the AI wave?
To get a sense of computer scientist Naveen Rao, just take a look at his hands.The 42-year-old has busted all 10 of his fingers over a lifetime of skiing, skateboarding, bicycling, rollerblading, race-car driving, wrestling and hoops.
Source: Intel wiped out in mobile. Can this guy help it catch the AI wave? – LA Times
Poker Versus AI: The Rise of Machines Against Humans
Deling with poker is deaing with loads of imperfect information which makes the game quite complicated like many real life situations – one of the main reasons why big universities AI departments are researching on Poker.
Source: Poker & AI: The Rise of Machines Against Humans – Pokersites.me.uk
IBM’s Watson is Getting Into Wall-Street Stock Picking
As the robot war on Wall Street stock pickers heats up, there’s a new line of attack from the algorithmic set: IBM’s Watson supercomputer has been hired to help run an ETF and pick stocks than can achieve better performance than the broad U.S. stock market index.
Source: AI assault on stock market: IBM’s Watson is getting into ETF business
The Challenges of Playing the Market Against Artificial Intelligence
Elon Musk has raised the alarm about artificial intelligence wiping out humanity, but the SpaceX and Tesla boss still hasn’t warned you that AI may be coming for your investments.When Google-owned DeepMind’s AlphaGo conquered a human champion at the game of Go last year, it was widely regarded as a watershed in machine learning. “Go is considered to be the pinnacle of game AI research,” said DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis at the time.
Making Music With AI
Members of the Google Brain team have been exploring how machine learning can be used as a creative tool through a project called Magenta. In this video, members of the team give an overview of how they turned an interface that allows researchers to interactively evaluate their music generation models into a fun and powerful creative tool for musicians called “AI Jam”. This interface won the Best Demo award at the 2017 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) and is freely available on Magenta’s GitHub site.