How cybercriminals are attacking machine learning – BetaNews

BetaNewsHow cybercriminals are attacking machine learningBetaNewsMachine learning (ML) is getting a lot of attention these days. Search engines that autocomplete, sophisticated Uber transportation scheduling and recommendations from social sites and on…

Facebook’s LeCun to be chief AI scientist, ex-Watson exec will lead AI efforts—updated – Fast Company


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Facebook’s LeCun to be chief AI scientist, ex-Watson exec will lead AI efforts—updated
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Yann LeCun, the superstar researcher who’s been at the helm of Facebook’s artificial intelligence efforts since 2013, has been named the company’s chief AI scientist, and will “be responsible for ensuring the group retains its unique culture, focused

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Apple Reveals Machine Learning Systems Applied to Apple Music and Apple Watch Heartbeat Activity Patterns – Patently Apple


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Apple Reveals Machine Learning Systems Applied to Apple Music and Apple Watch Heartbeat Activity Patterns
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Apple goes on to explain that in prior art, machine learning that is used to enhance a particular user’s experience can be trained on the client device using the particular user’s data only. Training using only on-device data preserves privacy at the

Alt Data on the March with Machine Learning – Finextra (blog)

Finextra (blog)Alt Data on the March with Machine LearningFinextra (blog)The explosion of alternative data sources, such as satellite images, sentiment analysis, and geolocation data, is having a profound impact on the field of quantitative investing. …

Three Keys To A Successful Machine Learning Project – Forbes

ForbesThree Keys To A Successful Machine Learning ProjectForbesMachine learning, a field evolved from the study of pattern recognition and computational learning theory in artificial intelligence, has leaped ahead in the last decade. Major improvements…

The Grammys Are Bringing IBM Watson’s Artificial Intelligence to the Red Carpet – Adweek


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The Grammys Are Bringing IBM Watson’s Artificial Intelligence to the Red Carpet
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For the 60th anniversary of the music awards, the Recording Academy is partnering with IBM to bring its artificial intelligence to the red carpet. On Sunday night, IBM will deploy its AI platform to analyze videos and photos of nominees and attendees

Twitter is using machine learning to crop photos to the most … – The Verge


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Twitter is using machine learning to crop photos to the most …
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The lure of machine learning isn’t always about big new features; often, what it does best are small tweaks that subtly improve user experience. So it is with Twitter’s use of neural networks to automatically crop picture previews to their most
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Artificial Intelligence’s ‘Black Box’ Is Nothing to Fear – New York Times


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Artificial Intelligence’s ‘Black Box’ Is Nothing to Fear
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Alongside the excitement and hype about our growing reliance on artificial intelligence, there’s fear about the way the technology works. A recent MIT Technology Review article titled “The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI” warned: “No one really knows