Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

This AI expert found it “both exciting and scary” that Xi Jinping reads his book – Quartz


Quartz

This AI expert found it “both exciting and scary” that Xi Jinping reads his book
Quartz
Xi Jinping’s bookshelf includes not only classics on communism but also works on artificial intelligence, as TV viewers spotted during his new year’s speech this year. One of the books that helps the Chinese president understand AI is The Master

Who Will Survive The Machine-Learning Revolution? – AdExchanger

AdExchangerWho Will Survive The Machine-Learning Revolution?AdExchangerMachine learning (ML) is a very trendy term, raising huge expectations on one end and creating fantastic fears on the other. Even if there is a lot of “ML-washing” among the ad tech…

Pentagon developing artificial intelligence center – C4ISRNet


C4ISRNet

Pentagon developing artificial intelligence center
C4ISRNet
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon is working on a plan to stand up an artificial intelligence center in order to streamline the department’s myriad AI programs. The idea, which comes as defense officials are increasingly concerned about China’s investments in

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on 2018’s Top HR Trends – Entrepreneur


Entrepreneur

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on 2018’s Top HR Trends
Entrepreneur
With the rise of artificial intelligence, several of today’s larger organizations face the issue of restructuring. Several global companies believe their organizational design is less than ideal, but few know how to go about remedying it. The answer to

Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos – Quanta Magazine


Quanta Magazine

Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos
Quanta Magazine
In a series of results reported in the journals Physical Review Letters and Chaos, scientists have used machine learning — the same computational technique behind recent successes in artificial intelligence — to predict the future evolution of

Alexa Can Now Make You a Better Call of Duty Player – Variety – Variety

VarietyAlexa Can Now Make You a Better Call of Duty Player – VarietyVarietyA new Alexa Skill launched in beta today that uses machine learning to analyze and improve your gameplay in "Call of Duty: WWII."Call of Duty: WWII Alexa Skill gives y…

Artificial intelligence can scour code to find accidentally public passwords – Quartz


Quartz

Artificial intelligence can scour code to find accidentally public passwords
Quartz
Sometimes sensitive data, like passwords or keys that unlock encrypted communications, are accidentally left open for anybody to see. It’s happened everywhere from the Republican National Committee to Verizon, and as long as information can be public

Evolved Policy Gradients

We’re releasing an experimental metalearning approach called Evolved Policy Gradients, a method that evolves the loss function of learning agents, which can enable fast training on novel tasks. Agents trained with EPG can succeed at basic tasks at test time that were outside their training regime, like learning to navigate

DHL Gets Logical – And Logistical – About Machine Learning – The Next Platform

The Next PlatformDHL Gets Logical – And Logistical – About Machine LearningThe Next PlatformFor the past several years, machine learning as evolved by the hyperscalers has been trickling down from on high, through frameworks and services, into enterpri…

The Difference Between Consumer and Industrial Machine Learning – Automation World


Automation World

The Difference Between Consumer and Industrial Machine Learning
Automation World
Machine learning may sound like a technology we will use at some point in the future, but it’s a technology many, if not most, of us interact with on a daily basis. If you’ve ever asked Siri to “call home” or seen name tagging suggestions appear while