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Teaching the Computer to Play the Chrome Dinosaur Game with TensorFlow.js Machine Learning Library
A simple, yet entertaining and useful for educational purposes application of machine learning, was recently made available on Fritz's HeartBeat Medium publication. Google's machine learning TensorFlow.js library is leveraged in the browser to teach the computer to play the Chrome Dinosaur Game.
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Salesforce Adds Intelligence to its Einstein Services Offering
In a recent press release, Salesforce announced additions to their Einstein platform that target bringing AI solutions to Salesforce developers and admins using a low code, point and click configuration-based solution. The recent additions to the platform include Einstein Translation and Einstein Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
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How the Sequence of Characters in a Name Can Predict Race and Ethnicity
Gaurav Sood, Principal Data Scientist at Microsoft, recently spoke at the AnacondaCon 2019 Conference on how to use the sequence of characters in a person's name to predict that person's race and ethnicity, using machine learning techniques.
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Google Expands ML Kit, Adds Smart Reply and Language Identification
In a recent Android blog post, Google announced the release of two new Natural Language Processing (NLP) features for ML Kit, including Language Identification and Smart Reply. In both cases, Google is providing domain-independent APIs that help developers analyze and generate text, speak and other types of Natural Language text.
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Google Open-Sources GPipe Library for Faster Training of Large Deep-Learning Models
Google AI is open-sourcing GPipe, a TensorFlow library for accelerating the training of large deep-learning models.
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Amazon Expands Its Machine Learning Offering with AWS Deep Learning Containers
Recently, Amazon introduced AWS Deep Learning Containers (AWS DL Containers), which are Docker images pre-installed with deep learning frameworks allowing customers to deploy custom machine learning environments quickly.
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Facebook Open-Sources PyTorch-BigGraph Embedding Framework
Facebook AI Research is open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph, a distributed system that can learn embeddings for graphs with billions of nodes.
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Convolutional Neural Network Deep Learning Techniques for Crowd Counting
Deep learning techniques like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a better choice for crowd-counting use cases, compared to traditional detection or regression based models. Ganes Kesari, co-founder and head of analytics at Gramener, spoke last week at the AnacondaCon 2019 Conference on how to count things using artificial intelligence (AI) models.
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DeepMind's AI Defeats Top StarCraft Players
DeepMind's AlphaStar AI defeated two top professional StarCraft players 5-0.
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Introducing TensorFlow Privacy, a New Machine Learning Library for Protecting Sensitive Data
In a recent blog post, TensorFlow announced TensorFlow Privacy, an open source library that allows researchers and developers to build machine learning models that have strong privacy. Using this library ensures user data are not remembered through the training process based upon strong mathematical guarantees.
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Deep Learning for Speech Synthesis of Audio from Brain Activity
Research teams use deep learning neural networks to synthesize speech from electrical signals recorded in human brains, to help people with speech challenges.
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Uber Open-Sources Ludwig Code-Free Deep-Learning Toolkit
Uber Engineering is open-sourcing Ludwig, a deep-learning toolkit that allows users to experiment with a variety of neural network structures without writing code.
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Facebook Open-Sources DeepFocus, Bringing More Realistic Images to Virtual Reality
In a recent blog post, Facebook announced they have open-sourced DeepFocus, an AI powered framework for improving focus on close objects. This technology ensures nearby objects are in-focus, while distant objects appear out of focus, much like cinematic experiences. DeepFocus takes advantage of an end-to-end convolutional neural network that produces an accurate retinal blur in near real-time.
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TensorSpace.js Delivers Neural Network 3D Visualization Framework
TensorSpace.js provides an open source browser-based neural network data visualization framework to complement the growing machine learning landscape by supporting pre-trained models created with TensorFlow.js, Keras, or TensorFlow.
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Google Open-Sources BERT: A Natural Language Processing Training Technique
In a recent blog post, Google announced they have open-sourced BERT, their state-of-the-art training technique for Natural Language Processing (NLP) . Google has decided to do this, in part, due to a lack of public data sets that are available to developers. In addition, optimizations have been made to Cloud TPUs to reduce the amount of time required for training NLP.