- Royal Dutch Shell is collaborating with Udacity to digitally train its workers in artificial intelligence.
- This began long before the coronavirus pandemic and the company continues to use this training method.
- The digital workforce skilling platform may become the training method of choice for a growing number of companies who need to keep employees up to speed in the weeks and months ahead.
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Hand labeling is the past. The future is #NoLabel AI
Data labeling is so hot right now… but could this rapidly emerging market face disruption from a small team at Stanford and the Snorkel open source project, which enables highly efficient programmatic labeling that is 10 to 1,000x as efficient as hand labeling? Read More
Not to ML when your problem…
Google DeepMind’s ‘Sideways’ takes a page from computer architecture
Increasingly, machine learning forms of artificial intelligence are contending with the limits of computing hardware, and it’s causing scientists to rethink how they design neural networks.
That was clear in last week’s research offering from Google, called Reformer, which aimed to stuff a natural language program into a single graphics processing chip instead of eight. Read More
Putting An End to End-to-End:Gradient-Isolated Learning of Representations
We propose a novel deep learning method for local self-supervised representation learning that does not require labels nor end-to-end backpropagation but exploits the natural order in data instead. Inspired by the observation that biological neural networks appear to learn without backpropagating a global error signal, we split a deep neural network into a stack of gradient-isolated modules. Each module is trained to maximally preserve the information of its inputs using the InfoNCE bound from Oord et al. [2018]. Despite this greedy training, we demonstrate that each module improves upon the output of its predecessor, and that the representations created by the top module yield highly competitive results on downstream classification tasks in the audio and visual domain. The proposal enables optimizing modules asynchronously, allowing large-scale distributed training of very deep neural networks on unlabelled datasets. Read More
Keeping Top AI Talent in the United States (CSET Report)
Talent is core to U.S. competitiveness in artificial intelligence, and international graduate students are a large source of AI talent for the United States. More than half of the AI workforce in the United States was born abroad, as were around two-thirds of current graduate students in AI-related fields. Tens of thousands of international students get AI-related degrees at U.S. universities every year. Retaining them, and ensuring a steady future talent inflow, is among the most important things the United States can do to address persistent domestic AI work-force shortages and to remain the global leader in AI.
… The good news is that student retention has historically been a core U.S. strength, with well over 80 percent of international U.S.-trained AI PhDs staying in the country, including those from AI competitors such as China.
…The bad news is that two trends are placing this U.S. strength in student retention at risk. Read More
These are the best free Artificial Intelligence educational (2020)
Deep learning is not a beginner-friendly subject — even for experienced software engineers and data scientists.
Deep learning is not a beginner-friendly subject — even for experienced software engineers and data scientists. If you’ve been Googling this subject, you may have been confused by the resources you’ve come across.
To find the best resources, we surveyed engineers on their favorite sources for deep learning, and these are what they recommended.
These educational resources include online courses, in-person courses, books, and videos. All are completely free and designed by leading professors, researchers, and industry professionals like Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Sebastian Thrun. Read More
Finland is making its online AI crash course free to the world
Last year, Finland launched a free online crash course in artificial intelligence with the aim of educating its citizens about the new technology. Now, as a Christmas present to the world, the European nation is making the six week program available for anyone to take.
Strictly speaking, it’s a present for the European Union. Finland is relinquishing the EU’s rotating presidency at the end of the year, and decided to translate its course into every EU language as a gift to citizens. But there aren’t any geographical restrictions as to who can take the course, so really it’s to the world’s benefit. Read More
Questioning The Long-Term Importance Of Big Data In AI
No asset is more prized in today’s digital economy than data. It has become widespread to the point of cliche to refer to data as “the new oil.” As one recent Economist headline put it, data is “the world’s most valuable resource.”
Data is so highly valued today because of the essential role it plays in powering machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions. Training an AI system to function effectively—from Netflix’s recommendation engine to Google’s self-driving cars—requires massive troves of data.
The result has been an obsession with bigger and bigger data. He with the most data can build the best AI, according to the prevailing wisdom. Read More
18 Best Artificial Intelligence Courses Online and Tutorial
Looking for Artificial Intelligence Tutorial to learn introduction to artificial intelligence? Grab the list of Best Artificial Intelligence Courses Online, Tutorials, and Training are offered by a number of massive open online course (MOOC) providers like Udemy, Coursera, and edX. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine intelligence are the most booming topics in every industry now. Read More
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