Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

The Future Of News Is Artificial Intelligence – Forbes

ForbesThe Future Of News Is Artificial IntelligenceForbesFor almost 80 years, people have tuned in to their television sets to get their daily dose of news. All around the world, people watched the Vietnam War, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the two G…

Don’t Trust Artificial Intelligence? Time To Open The AI ‘Black Box’ – Forbes


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Don’t Trust Artificial Intelligence? Time To Open The AI ‘Black Box’
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Despite its promise, the growing field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is experiencing a variety of growing pains. In addition to the problem of bias I discussed in a previous article, there is also the ‘black box’ problem: if people don’t know how AI

Preserving Outputs Precisely while Adaptively Rescaling Targets

Multi-task learning – allowing a single agent to learn how to solve many different tasks – is a longstanding objective for artificial intelligence research. Recently, there has been a lot of excellent progress, with agents likeDQN able to use the same …

Using AI to plan head and neck cancer treatments

Early results from our partnership with the Radiotherapy Department at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust suggest that we are well on our way to developing an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can analyse and segment medica…

The promising role of AI in helping plan treatment for patients with head and neck cancers

OpenAI Scholars Class of ’18: Final Projects

Our first cohort of OpenAI Scholars has now completed the program. Over the past three months, we’ve seen how quickly experienced software developers can become machine learning practitioners. All eight Scholars produced an exciting final project and are going on to work or teach within machine learning.

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Coopetition and AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Competitors usually fight tooth and nail for every inch of ground they can gain over the other. It’s a dog eat dog world and if you can gain an advantage over your competition, so the better you shall be. If you can even somehow drive your competition out […]

AI and the Org Chart: As Business Deploys AI, “Work Architecture” Need a Redesign

As editor of AI Trends, I am researching the impact of AI on how companies are organized to do work. I am interested in new job descriptions around data science, big data, machine learning, digital knowledge, AI interaction, natural language processing and others not mentioned here but that you might be involved in. I would […]

A Look Inside Facebook’s AI Machine

By Steven Levy, Wired When asked to head Facebook’s Applied Machine Learning group — to supercharge the world’s biggest social network with an AI makeover — Joaquin Quiñonero Candela hesitated. It was not that the Spanish-born scientist, a self-described “machine learning (ML) person,” hadn’t already witnessed how AI could help Facebook. Since joining the company in […]