Machine Learning (ML) is being ever more employed by business in an increasingly widening collection of commercial applications. There are five emerging giants of ML today: Netflix, Google, Twitter, Facebook and Uber. Netflix recently hosted a Machine Learning Platform meetup
Earlier this month, Intel announced the delivery of a 17-qubit quantum chip, in partnership with QuTech, its quantum research partner based in Holland. The new chip is significantly different to the one that has been used by phones, PCs and
AWS and Microsoft have joined forces to announce Gluon, a new open source deep learning interface, giving developers accessibility to easily and quickly build machine learning models for their apps and other services.
Two recently published research papers from DeepMind outline their development of new machine-learning architectures with the ability to imagine, reason, and plan for optimal behaviors within an uncontrolled environment. Unlike AlphaGo and other machine-learning models that operate within environments with
Last week, a policy statement from the State Council announced China’s intention to become a leader in artificial intelligence research, products, and innovation. The statement included plans for China to become competitive with the US and other countries in AI
Modern conceptions of memory are a little more nuanced than those from the past, holding that memories are reconstructed and reprocessed based on the problem at hand, and that the questions that are posed influence how memories are recalled. To
Research into sequence predictions using neural networks holds the key to major advances in speech recognition, machine translation, and language modeling. However, building and training such models is computationally taxing and very expensive. For instance, recent advances in language modeling
DeepMind, the Google-owned AI startup behind AlphaGo, is collaborating with Blizzard to open the popular Starcraft II game to AI and machine learning research. The goal is to foster advancements in artificial intelligence to the extent that it can solve
Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity startup PatternEx started back in 2013, but launched their Threat Prediction Platform in Februrary which is designed to detect anomalies and malicious data using supervised machine learning while also continuously incorporating input from human analysts. Cool Startup: PatternEx
A U.S. congressional report has concluded that Cylance Inc., an endpoint cybersecurity vendor, played an invaluable role in discovering, halting and remediating a data breach in progress last year at the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Upon being
Agari, a leading email security provider, has announced a brand new solution to help B2B companies with targeted phishing attacks by understanding the legitimate identity of email senders and detecting imposter emails.
At the Air Force Association’s annual conference, the U.S. Air Force announced that they will continue ongoing efforts to overhaul and update its information technology infrastructure in order to incorporate artificial intelligence solutions in cybersecurity warfare.
Cloudera and Intel recently announced the donation of their collaborated open source project Apache Spot to the Apache Software Foundation. Originally created by Intel back in February and launched under the name Open Network Insight (ONI) project, the effort has
Last week, Google acquired API.ai, a natural language and voice-command startup. The price and financial terms of the deal are currently not disclosed. API.ai helps developers with APIs with bot engines that handles chat interfaces such as speech recognition, intent
Google is now implementing “Try the API boxes” for users to test out their Cloud Learning API product line: Cloud Vision API, Speech API and Natural Language API. This effort is directed towards developers interested in machine learning and creating
