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Google Allows Developers to Use Its Machine Learning Platform
Google’s Cloud Machine Learning platform, which is utilized by a number of applications including Google Photos, Translate and Inbox has been made available for use by developers today. The announcement was made by Alphabet’s Chairman, Eric Schmidt at NEXT 2016, where he explained that machine learning was “what’s next”. This…
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Machine Learning Algorithm Can Tell If You Are Drunk Tweeting
So you’ve had a few drinks and decide it would be a great idea to drunk text someone? The next morning you wake up and check your phone to see several responses which make you swear to never drink again (or at least until the next night out with your…
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AlphaGo AI Wins Go Series In Third Match
Google’s amazing Go-playing AI, AlphaGo, has convincingly beaten Lee Sedol in the Google DeepMind Challenge series, shutting out the reigning human champion in only the third match, bringing the score to 3-0. Just because AlphaGo has won doesn’t mean the series will end here, though, the remaining two matches will still…
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China Looking at Creating “Precrime” System
When people start to think about digital surveillance and their data stored online, they think about cases such as Apple vs the FBI where modern technology is used to try track down criminals or find out more about what could have or has happened. China looks to go a step further…
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Google AI Can Work Out Photo Locations Without Geotags
Google are making AI for all kinds of purposes, including tackling the challenging Chinese game of Go. Now, they have revealed their latest deep-learning program, PlaNet, which is capable of recognizing where an image was taken even without it being geotagged. PlaNet was trained by Google researchers with 90 million…
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Google AI Beats Top Ranking Go Player
Computers have been beating professional chess players for years, but now Google’s DeepMind division took on a much bigger challenge: Go. The group developed a system named AlphaGo, with the sole purpose of tackling the massive complexity of the classic Chinese game. When pitted against European Go champion Fan Hui, AlphaGo…
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Bayesian Program Learning – Teaching a Computer in One Shot
Even in this day and age, computer learning is far behind the learning capability of humans. A team of researchers seek to shrink the gap, however, developing a technique called “Bayesian Program Learning” which is able to teach a new concept in just a single example, instead of the large…
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Lie Detection Software Learns from Real Court Testimony
Machine learning is one of the hot computing topics of today. With Google releasing its own open source machine learning tools and both IBM and Intel not wanting to be left out of the party with their own offerings. Most of the uses for these platforms right now are almost…
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TensorFlow – Google’s New Open Source Machine Learning Tool
In recent times, companies have been scrambling to deliver the next pioneering tools in machine learning and AI. And Google is not one to be left behind in this battle, today releasing their own open source offering, TensorFlow. Released under the Apache 2.0 license, TensorFlow aims to showcase Google’s accomplishments…
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Intel Acquires Saffron to Invest in Cognitive Computing
In what seems to be a bid by Intel to catch up with IBM’s recent investments into the field of cognitive computing, Intel has announced their deal to acquire Saffron Technology, a cognitive technology startup. What Saffron has to offer Intel is their Natural Intelligence Platform. According to Saffron’s website,…
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MarI/O Can Learn and Play Super Mario World by Itself
Super Mario World is a classic game, one that many have played in one form or another. One person has taken this game to the next level by making a program that can learn to play this game, all by itself. MarI/O is a program made of neural networks and…
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