Computer vision (CV) is a major task for modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) systems. It’s accelerating nearly every domain in the tech industry enabling organizations to revolutionize the way machines and business systems work.
… In this article, we briefly show you the common challenges associated with a CV system when it employs modern ML algorithms. Read More
Monthly Archives: September 2020
Ain’t No Such a Thing as a ‘Citizen Data Scientist’
Dear Aspiring Data Scientist,
Before you start using ‘low code’ or ‘drag & drop’ data science tools, please learn the fundamentals.
Why aspire to be ‘Citizen Data Scientist’ when you can truly become a ‘Data Scientist.’ Read More
GPT-3: The First Artificial General Intelligence?
If you had asked me a year or two ago when Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) would be invented, I’d have told you that we were a long way off. I wasn’t alone in that judgment. Most experts were saying that AGI was decades away, and some were saying it might not happen at all. The consensus is — was? — that all the recent progress in AI concerns so-called “narrow AI,” meaning systems that can only perform one specific task. An AGI, or a “strong AI,” which could perform any task as well as a human being, is a much harder problem. It is so hard that there isn’t a clear roadmap for achieving it, and few researchers are openly working on the topic. GPT-3 is the first model to shake that status-quo seriously. Read More
The Cruel New Era of Data-Driven Deportation
… For a long time, mass deportations were a small-data affair, driven by tips, one-off investigations, or animus-driven hunches. But beginning under George W. Bush, and expanding under Barack Obama, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) leadership started to reap the benefits of Big Data. … This is a new era of immigrant surveillance: ICE has transformed from an agency that tracks some people sometimes to an agency that can track anyone at any time. Read More
#surveillanceThe Next Big Breakthrough in AI Will Be Around Language
Most companies recognize that aggressive adoption of digital technologies is increasingly critical to being competitive. Our research shows that the top 10% of early adopters of digital technologies have grown at twice the rate of the bottom 25%, and that they are using cloud systems — not legacy systems — to enable adoption, a trend we expect to accelerate among industry leaders over the coming five years. Many laggard and middle-of-the-pack companies, by comparison, are dramatically underestimating the cloud resources they will need in order to access, power, or train a new generation of intelligent applications presaged by breakthroughs like GPT-3, a state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) tool. Read More
This know-it-all AI learns by reading the entire web nonstop
Diffbot is building the biggest-ever knowledge graph by applying image recognition and natural-language processing to billions of web pages. … It is building an AI that reads every page on the entire public web, in multiple languages, and extracts as many facts from those pages as it can. Read More
#nlpYouTube’s Plot to Silence Conspiracy Theories
From flat-earthers to QAnon to Covid quackery, the video giant is awash in misinformation. Can AI keep the lunatic fringe from going viral?
Mark Sargent saw instantly that his situation had changed for the worse. A voluble, white-haired 52-year-old, Sargent is a flat-earth evangelist who lives on Whidbey Island in Washington state and drives a Chrysler with the vanity plate “ITSFLAT.” But he’s well known around the globe, at least among those who don’t believe they are living on one. That’s thanks to YouTube, which was the on-ramp both to his flat-earth ideas and to his subsequent international stardom.
… Crucial to his success, he says, was YouTube’s recommendation system. …For four years, Sargent’s flat-earth videos got a steady stream of traffic from YouTube’s algorithms. Then, in January 2019, the flow of new viewers suddenly slowed to a trickle. Read More
Chinese propaganda network on Facebook used AI-generated faces
Facebook removed two networks of fake accounts spreading government propaganda on the platform Tuesday, one originating in China and one in the Philippines.
In its latest report on this kind of coordinated campaign, the company says it took down 155 Facebook accounts, 11 pages, nine groups and seven Instagram accounts connected to the Chinese activity and 57 accounts, 31 Pages and 20 Instagram accounts for the activity in the Philippines. Both operations broke Facebook’s rules against “coordinated inauthentic behavior on behalf of a foreign or government entity.” Read More
Microsoft teams up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3 language model
…You’ve probably already seen OpenAI’s announcement of their groundbreaking GPT-3 model – an autoregressive language model that outputs remarkably human-like text. GPT-3 is the largest and most advanced language model in the world, clocking in at 175 billion parameters, and is trained on Azure’s AI supercomputer.
Today, Microsoft announced it is teaming up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3, allowing it to leverage its technical innovations to develop and deliver advanced AI solutions for its customers, as well as create new solutions that harness the amazing power of advanced natural language generation. Read More
Artificial intelligence (AI): 5 trends, hype-tested
Are you exploring how to best implement artificial intelligence in your business? Consider these trends, which are key to a future of practical AI business applications
If you are considering using artificial intelligence (AI) to mature your foundational IT and data capabilities, how do you separate hype from reality?
… Here are five industry trends that will help. Read More
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