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la - la was created by jason hadjioannou, originally as a way to message his girlfriend in a more interesting way. in an interview with softonic, jason is quoted saying :
just thought it' d be cool if i sent her a short audible song snippet instead of writing it
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bloom ai bloom develops consumer artificial intelligence software that attempts to befriend humans. its lead developer, jason hadjioannou, showcased a companion ai app for ios at 2015’s techcrunch disrupt in london. the app uses artificial intelligence to learn about and bond with the user, proactively striking up conversations and remembering the personal interests of the individual. bloom’s companion app is interacted with via natural spoken language and presents one of the most realistic speech synthesis engines currently available. bloom ai is based in england and was founded by jason hadjioannou .
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hadjioannou has the impression that he “can digest and understand a single - task app’s full service a lot more easily and without much of a learning curve”. if hyper - semplification means accessibility and immediacy, then why shouldn’t this be a standard for apps ?
jason hadjioannou’s idea to develop la - la, on the other hand, came from a daily event: “i was about to send my girlfriend a text message one morning and just thought it’d be cool if i sent her a short audible song snippet instead of writing it. i’m not really a chatty text messenger and normally run out of things to write, but a song snippet would say everything i needed without sounding boring. i made an early version of the app and sent her the 17 second chorus of ‘hello’ by lionel richie” .
even further, during a time where people are increasingly concerned about privacy, these apps give the advantage of being less invasive compared to more complex ones. not only do they request (and require) fewer permissions, “they don’t hold much personal data”, hadjioannou says .
la - la, on the other hand, can even get you free drinks during a concert. “a band declared on stage one night that anyone who sent them a la - la message with the lyrics “buy me a drink” would get one on the house”, hadjioannou told us .
hadjioannou poses a comparison with social networks: “we don’t all want all the features of a complex social network, but certain elements can appeal to different people. with single - function apps, users can pick and choose a social media outlet that fits who they are and how they wish to express themselves” .
incredibly simple, minimalistic, and with only single - function, the latest app trends is towards apps that do one really basic thing. yo! was a hit because of its extremely simple communication style, literally only pushing the word ‘ yo! ’ to other users. surprisingly, it’s not alone. similar single - function apps have been appearing in app stores, including la - la, emojli, and yo. the big questions is, why? what’s so good about an app that can only do one thing ?
i decided to take a closer look at the reason behind the popularity of these apps by asking the developers themselves about their appeal. more than just single - tasks apps, it looks like there may be more than one valid reason to start using these so - called single - function apps .
the common thread of every single - function apps is a hyper - simplification of something that seems to go against the evolution of technology (and common sense). no one buys a smart - phone to simply send a ‘yo! ’ or a goofy emoticon to friends. it seems almost counter - intuitive if you consider the enhanced level of communication that smartphones are supposed to bring .
the single - function or ‘one - task’ app changes slightly from one app to another, but when you consider it, they’re not all that different. they all serve as a way to facilitate c ommunication between users. what changes, however, is the method .
as already mentioned, for example, yo lets you send only one message to your contacts: ‘yo! ’. with la - la, on the other hand, you can chat with friend, but only through music .
another app is lo, which you can use to send your location to friends. in the vein of simplicity, a friend asks for your location, and you answer with your position. that’s it. very similar is 1minlate, which lets other people track your movements on a map for half an hour. it’’s like telling your friends, “i’m on my way. ”
and then there’s this. it’s a social network where you can share only one link per day .
push for pizza, which is slightly different, lets you order delivery pizza with a couple of taps on your smartphone’s screen .
the simplicity of these apps’ functions is matched only by the simplicity of their interface. with big buttons and bright colors, they’re a reference to the bi - dimensional flat design we first saw with windows 8, then ios 7, and finally with the new material design in android .
but how do these developers go about designing these kinds of apps? what need drives these apparently useless apps? they’re all legitimate questions that you might have asked yourself, which i in turn, asked it’s developers .
suprisingly, apps like yo and lo where created from real needs. or arbel, yo’s developer, got a request form his boss to make an app so that he could send notifications to his personal assistant. “after dismissing him at first because i thought it was not worth my time, i thought about it and remembered i have a friend who i communicate with in the same way– by texting each other content - less messages. like, for example, ‘yo’” .
lo, on the other hand, was developed by 4 people living in a 2 bedroom apartment. “one day while we were discussing our remote working strategy and how we typically communicate, someone asked the question ‘ what’s the most common message we send each other? ’ we all thought about it, and the obvious answer was ‘where are you? ’” said evan bullington, base forty ’s co - founder, the company behind lo .
other apps, like emojli, were created as more of a fun idea. matt gray and tom scott, the app’s developers, told softonic that the idea came from yo and the new emojis. “the two of us had the idea at about the same time — we weren’t sold on it until we realized that usernames should be emoji too. at that point, we burst out laughing and realized we had to build it” .
while they may be fun, you might be asking yourself why you should choose a single - function app instead of a more robust one that does all of these things. if you think about it, you can easily say ‘yo’, send your location, an emoticon, or a song via imessage or whatsapp. is it really necessary to have different single - function apps ?
well, behind all these apps there is one common motto: keep - it - simple. as or arbel puts it, “why complicate things when they can be simple? ” bullington agrees, saying that the advantage of these apps comes from their simplicity “the value of apps like yo is that users can go in and perform the task they want to perform without distraction or friction. it’s just get in, and get out”. gray agrees: “i downloaded yo! it didn’t stop me using anything else, but it was an amusing brief addition to the apps i already use” .
but it’s not just that. these apps have immediacy on their side. they respond to daily concrete needs. if i want to do one simple thing, and there’s an app that lets me do just that, then why should i go through a more complex one ?
bullington goes further, saying that “the user advantage of using lo is all in the request - respond format and the 1 - tap user flow. [ … ] the world is responding to a new phenomenon– technology as a time - waster. we’re realizing that we spend too much time attached to feature - packed apps. with a push - heavy app like lo, you can perform actions without gluing yourself to complicated app interfaces” .
the world is responding to a new phenomenon– technology as a time - waster .
moreover, these apps stimulate creativity by giving you new challenges, as grey points out. “the added constraints of only being able to use emojis in our app gives you a challenge and a prompt to be creative” .
if i hear a song on the radio that me and my girlfriend always listen to, for example, and i want to tell her, sending her part of the song could be worth much more than telling her about it. asking a friend you’re meeting up with where he or she is is much simpler with lo, and the same goes for trying to get someone’s attention with yo! or by sending them an ‘i’m happy’ emojli. these are the primary intended functions of these apps .
but single - function apps can actually have alternative uses too. apart from communicating with friends and family, they allow users to “get notifications about things they either can’t get anywhere else, or have to download a whole app just to get, ” says arbel .
on yo’s website, you can subscribe to many different feeds that notify you with a yo each time something happens. earthquake yo warns you if there is an earthquake larger than 6. 0 magnitude, while redalertisrael warns israelis of rocket strikes in israel. you can also use yo! to check if you’re drinking enough water throughout the day with yowater, or meet happy people with happyyo .
we believe smart people from around the world will keep create amazing use cases with yo .
aside from these serious uses, yo’s own offices have a vending machine that employees can yo! to get a soda. they even have a toaster that you can yo! to turn on, notifying you with a yo when toast is ready .
installing and uninstalling apps on your smartphone is so quick and simple that it’s almost effortless. storage space keeps getting bigger and bigger, and the ‘there’s an app for that’ mentality isn’t far from the truth these days. if single - function apps really fill the gap of some need, could these apps be the standard in the future? think of apps as big as facebook, which has moved it’s messenger function to a standalone apps, or foursquare, which separated it’s glaringly different functions into two separate apps: foursquare and swarm .
these apps’ developers all agree on the fact that the ‘keep it simple’ philosophy works, and that there is a trend towards more simple and immediate apps, although this isn’t necessarily coming at the expense of more complex apps .
it’ll be interesting to see how they’ll integrate with wearables, where screens are smaller and the possibility to do more than one thing with an app is limited. “if i want to know how far away my brother is, but i know he’s biking over, i know i won’t get a text response while he’s riding. if he just has to tap a button on his watch or say a command to share his location, it’s safer and easier, and that’s a real value added”, says bullington. as a matter of fact, yo is already available for google glass and will soon be available on other wearable. arbel’s idea is to make it available on all devices .
the key concept of these apps, and what their success on wearables depends on, is linked to the immediacy of push notifications. “yo brought us the notion that apps can exist primarily within the context of push notifications, and with lo, we’re trying to further that idea by making push notifications complete simple actions. it’s very easy to see push notifications becoming the primary hub of these one - function apps, simply because of how easy and instantaneous they are to use, ” lo’s co - founder darshan desai told softonic .
it’s very easy to see push notifications becoming the primary hub of these one - function apps .
yo can activate real things in the real world, and lo’s developers “want to see these ideas improve the world, so that’s what we’re working towards” .
basically, the success of these apps will depend mostly on how they’ll improve our relationship with technology, expanding its use in some cases, adapting to devices in others .
bullington forecasts that simple apps will converge with more complex ones, and it won’t take long before we’ll discover if the future will develop in this direction, or multi - function and single - task apps will continue to coexist. only time will tell, but if facebook and foursqaure, yo, la - la, and emojli are any indication, it looks like that’s where we’re headed .
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as yo has proved, the public’s appetite for messaging seems not to have stopped with whatsapp. many others have appeared before an since. as sarah perez recently found out. now another has appeared which plans to plug at our emotional side a little more, drawing the medium most tied to the heart: music .
instead of a yo, or a word or an image, new music messaging app la - la lets its users chat with audio snippets of songs .
say you want to send a quick ‘hi’ to a girlfriend or boyfriend. on la - la you might select ‘hello’ by lionel richie (i’m sure better songs are available), pick your friend’s contact and hit send. they can reply with their own sing choices, presumably until you’ve run out of ideas .
users can also send la - la messages via sms (for recipients without the app) or to someone befriended to their la - la account. the recipient doesn’t know what song snippet they got until they play it, adding that frisson on anticipation .
it reminds me of a different kind of take on music sharing, thisismyjam, but done as messages .
currently, la - la has a neat selection of licensed music by popular artists and has the option for users to create their own messages by searching youtube for music and clipping out a section for sending .
unlike other “music sending” apps out there that send song links attached to written chat messages users can’t chat with words in any way on la - la — only music .
this is probably good for teens but likely to be of some frustration to adults perhaps .
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the uk has a great heritage in ai, stemming back to pioneers such as alan turing, one of the undisputed fathers of the field. britain has some of the best ai research groups in the world, including cambridge, imperial and university college london (ucl), and is a growing centre for tech entrepreneurship. but companies specialising in ai are few and far between, and those that do exist tend to be focused in one particular area .
google’s acquisition of deepmind has shone a light on this relatively nascent commercial sector, and ben medlock, co - founder of ai firm swiftkey, believes that the uk is capable of building sustainable ai businesses to rival the giants of the west coast .
some experts have warned that artificial intelligence could lead to mass unemployment. dr stuart armstrong, from the future of humanity institute at the university of oxford, said computers had the potential to take over people’s jobs at a faster rate than new roles could be created .
he cited logistics, administration and insurance underwriting as professions that were particularly vulnerable to the development of artificial intelligence. however, anderson said ai is not all about “hacking the workforce to pieces”. rather it is about making individuals more productive, and making sure that “processes get applied, stuff is accurate, errors are eliminated, and compliance is met”. analyst firm gartner predicts that ‘smart machines’ will have a widespread impact on businesses by 2020 .
vocaliq founded by blaise thomson, martin szummer and steve young, vocaliq is a cambridge - based startup, formed to exploit technology developed by the spoken dialogue systems group at the university of cambridge, uk. with expertise and toolkits covering speech recognition, spoken language understanding, dialog design, and speech synthesis the company provides customised spoken language interfaces to any device, and for any application including smartphones, robots, cars, call - centres, and games. in september 2015 vocaliq was acquired by apple .
swiftkey swiftkey uses artificial intelligence to make personalised mobile apps. it is best known for the swiftkey keyboard, which learns from each individual user to accurately predict their next word and improve autocorrect. its machine learning and natural language processing technology understands the context of language and how words fit together. swiftkey products were embedded on more than 100 million devices last year, and the company has just launched an app for iphones and ipads called swiftkey note. the company behind swiftkey was founded in 2008 by jon reynolds and dr ben medlock .
celaton celaton ’s instream software applies artificial intelligence to labour - intensive clerical tasks and decision making. every day, businesses receive mountains of information via email and paper. instream learns to recognise different types of information and process it accordingly. it never forgets, and handles huge volumes of information at high - speed. like a real person, it asks questions when it is not sure what to do. andrew anderson is the founder and ceo of celaton .
lincor lincor provides hospital bedside computers to entertain patients and engage them with relevant information and advice. this virtual personal doctor will constantly analyse live personal health data to enable preventative medicine and tailored lifestyle advice. during a hospital visit, the data will be further analysed by hospital ai, giving doctors a more complete and detailed picture. enda murphy is the founder and cto of lincor solutions .
featurespace featurespace has developed and sells two software products based on its predictive analytics platform. one is for fraud detection and the other for marketing analytics. its products use advanced proprietary algorithms to exploit the vast amounts of customer interaction data that many companies collect, delivering insights that can help to detect and prevent fraud and prevent customer churn. featurespace’s team is led by ceo martina king (former managing director of aurasma and yahoo! europe) and cto david excell, who co - founded the company with professor bill fitzgerald, alongside matt mills (commercial director) and simon rodgers (director of engineering) .
darktrace darktrace uses advanced mathematics to automatically detect abnormal behaviour in organisations in order to manage risks from cyber - attacks. unlike software that reads log files or puts locks on the technology, darktrace’s approach allows businesses to protect their information and intellectual property from state - sponsored, criminal groups or malicious employees that many believe are already inside the networks of every critical infrastructure company. darktrace was founded in cambridge, uk, in 2013 by mathematicians and machine learning specialists from the university of cambridge, together with intelligence experts from mi5 and gchq .
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la - la is a social network / music messaging application for ios that uses audio instead of written words. users communicate by sending each other audible song snippets which include music lyrics to conduct their conversations. [ 1 ]
an early version of the
messaging app
was developed in beginning of july 2014 and the first la - la message to be sent via the service was a stream of the 17 second chorus of ‘hello’ by lionel richie. [ 3 ]
since its summer release, la - la has been reported to have passed over 40, 00 users and has been featured in respectable technology publications including
techcrunch
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product hunt
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urltoken
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on la - la' s official blog, there are screen captures from twitter users expressing their joy for the app -
finally, a messenger that understands my love for music
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new favourite app: la - la lets you send song snippets
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so perfect; we all need @ la _ la _ app
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la - la is often mentioned alongside the other single - task messaging apps :
yo
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whatsapp
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snapchat
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a number of studies have found that today’s visual question answering (vqa) models are heavily driven by superficial correlations in the training data and lack sufficient image grounding. to encourage development of models geared towards the latter, we propose a new setting for vqa where for every question type, train and test sets have different prior distributions of answers. specifically, we present new splits of the vqa v1 and vqa v2 datasets, which we call visual question answering under changing priors (vqa - cp v1 and vqa - cp v2 respectively). first, we evaluate several existing vqa models under this new setting and show that their performance degrades significantly compared to the original vqa setting. second, we propose a novel grounded visual question answering model (gvqa) that contains inductive biases and restrictions in the architecture specifically designed to prevent the model from ‘cheating’ by primarily relying on priors in the training data. specifically, gvqa explicitly disentangles the recognition of visual concepts present in the image from the identification of plausible answer space for a given question, enabling the model to more robustly generalize across different distributions of answers. gvqa is built off an existing vqa model – stacked attention networks (san). our experiments demonstrate that gvqa significantly outperforms san on both vqa - cp v1 and vqa - cp v2 datasets. interestingly, it also outperforms more powerful vqa models such as multimodal compact bilinear pooling (mcb) in several cases. gvqa offers strengths complementary to san when trained and evaluated on the original vqa v1 and vqa v2 datasets. finally, gvqa is more transparent and interpretable than existing vqa models .
despite their ability to memorize large datasets, deep neural networks often achieve good generalization performance. however, the differences between the learned solutions of networks which generalize and those which do not remain unclear. additionally, the tuning properties of single directions (defined as the activation of a single unit or some linear combination of units in response to some input) have been highlighted, but their importance has not been evaluated. here, we connect these lines of inquiry to demonstrate that a network’s reliance on single directions is a good predictor of its generalization performance, across networks trained on datasets with different fractions of corrupted labels, across ensembles of networks trained on datasets with unmodified labels, across different hyperparameters, and over the course of training. while dropout only regularizes this quantity up to a point, batch normalization implicitly discourages single direction reliance, in part by decreasing the class selectivity of individual units. finally, we find that class selectivity is a poor predictor of task importance, suggesting not only that networks which generalize well minimize their dependence on individual units by reducing their selectivity, but also that individually selective units may not be necessary for strong network performance .
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the value and power of artificial intelligence is growing dramatically every year, and will soon dominate the internet – and the economy as a whole. however, ai tools today are fragmented by a closed development environment; most are developed by one company to perform one task, and there is no way to plug two tools together. singularitynet aims to become the key protocol for networking ai and machine learning tools to form a coordinated artificial general intelligence. singularitynet is an open - source protocol and collection of smart contracts for a decentralized market of coordinated ai services. within this framework, the benefits of ai become a global commons infrastructure for the benefit of all; anyone can access ai tech or become a stakeholder in its development. anyone can add an ai / machine learning service to singularitynet for use by the network, and receive network payment tokens in exchange. singularitynet is backed by the singularitynet foundation, which operates on a belief that the benefits of ai should not be dominated by any small set of powerful institutions, but shared by all. a key goal of singularitynet is to ensure the technology is benevolent according to human standards, and the network is designed to incentivize and reward beneficial players .
offline ai refers to artificial intelligence programs that run on - device, as opposed to server - side apis that run programs to perform ai tasks remotely. why is this a thing? well there are three big benefits to using offline ai .
the first is operation speed. if a device has all the data it needs and possess the ability to perform intelligent tasks such as image recognition and natural language processing without needing to send / receive data processed on a remote server somewhere, then the speed of the operation is greatly improved due to the lack of reliance on network connectivity and / or server hardware performance .
an on - device ai program can run trained machine learning models and neural networks using nothing but the device hardware and software. not having to rely on network connectivity greatly improves the speed of operation and has a positive impact on user experience. (core ml for macos and ios is a framework by apple that will allow such programs to run on a mac or an ios device. i’ll be talking more about core ml in future posts) .
the second benefit to using offline ai comes hand in hand with the first. if online is false then network costs are zero! to give you an example of how much of an impact this can have on an ai business. .
the company i work for is an artificial intelligence and augmented reality company with a consumer facing mobile app, and it’s not uncommon for even medium - sized tech companies to spend millions of dollars per month on the server - side technology needed to perform the ai tasks that make an app’s feature - set possible .
the majority of this huge cost goes towards server hosting and data bandwidth fees that occur whenever the app sends image data from a user’s device camera and up to our online neural nets for processing. if you want really fast image - recognition performance for example, you’ll need to send up a lot of image data, multiple times per second. the promise of offline ai eliminates this process altogether .
the third benefit is one of increasing importance to society as consumer technology and the social media industry matures, so is it that the responsibility to protect people’s data is more greatly required. user data privacy is an ethically important practice made possible by offline ai .
processing all data on - device means that it is sandboxed and better protected against data abuse and server hacking. yes the device could still be hacked or stolen for that matter, but the risk of user data abuse is greatly reduced as the data is never sent to a remote network or stored server - side. user data can be processed, used for current tasks and then purged without leaving digital breadcrumbs when the data is no longer needed .
in time, as ai applications become more intwined with our daily lives, the need for this type of responsibility will increase and the onus is on us, program developers, software engineers and computer scientists to build such applications that behave respectively towards the personal security of the people that use them .
this paper introduces wavenet, a deep neural network for generating raw audio waveforms. the model is fully probabilistic and autoregressive, with the predictive distribution for each audio sample conditioned on all previous ones; nonetheless we show that it can be efficiently trained on data with tens of thousands of samples per second of audio. when applied to text - to - speech, it yields state - ofthe - art performance, with human listeners rating it as significantly more natural sounding than the best parametric and concatenative systems for both english and mandarin. a single wavenet can capture the characteristics of many different speakers with equal fidelity, and can switch between them by conditioning on the speaker identity. when trained to model music, we find that it generates novel and often highly realistic musical fragments. we also show that it can be employed as a discriminative model, returning promising results for phoneme recognition .
the ibm watson ai xprize is a $ 5 million ai and cognitive computing competition challenging teams globally to develop and demonstrate how humans can collaborate with powerful ai technologies to tackle the world’s grand challenges. this prize will focus on creating advanced and scalable applications that benefit consumers and businesses across a multitude of disciplines. the solutions will contribute to the enrichment of available tools and data sets for the usage of innovators everywhere. the goal is also to accelerate the understanding and adoption of ai’s most promising breakthroughs .
every year leading up to ted 2020, the teams will compete for interim prizes and the opportunity to advance to the next year’s competition. the three finalist teams will take the ted stage in 2020 to deliver jaw - dropping, awe - inspiring ted talks demonstrating what they have achieved .
typical of all xprize competitions, the ibm watson ai xprize will crowdsource solutions from some of the most brilliant thinkers and entrepreneurs around the world, creating true exponential impact .
to compete in the ibm watson ai xprize you must be a fully registered team. to complete your registration, you must create a team profile, sign the competitor’s agreement and pay the registration fee .
the $ 3, 000, 000 grand prize, $ 1, 000, 000 2nd place, and $ 500, 000 3rd place purses will be awarded at the end of competition at ted2020, for a total of $ 4. 5 million .
two milestone competition prize purses will be awarded at the end of each of the first two rounds of the competition, and the judges may award additional special prizes to recognize special accomplishments. a total of $ 500, 000 will be available for these prizes and will be allocated by the judges for special accomplishments .
the progress in ai research and applications in the past 20 years makes it timely to focus attention not only on making ai more capable, but also on maximizing the societal benefit of ai. the democratization of exponential technology enables ai and cognitive computing to put empowerment into the hands of innovators everywhere. driven by long term capabilities of ai impact, and to better understand the prospects of human and ai collaboration, the ibm watson ai xprize provides an interdisciplinary platform for domain experts, developers and innovators to, through collaboration, push the boundaries of ai to new heights. the competition will bring the ai community together and accelerate the development of scalable, hybrid solutions and audacious breakthroughs to address humanity’s grandest challenges .
watch alphago take on lee sedol, the world’s top go player, in the final match of the google deepmind challenge .
match score: alphago 3 – lee sedol 1. [ game five: seoul, south korea, 15th march at 13: 00 kst; 04: 00 gmt; for us at - 1 day (14th march) 21: 00 pt, 00: 00 et. ]
the game of go originated in china more than 2, 500 years ago. the rules of the game are simple: players take turns to place black or white stones on a board, trying to capture the opponent’s stones or surround empty space to make points of territory. as simple as the rules are, go is a game of profound complexity. there are more possible positions in go than there are atoms in the universe. that makes go a googol times more complex than chess. go is played primarily through intuition and feel, and because of its beauty, subtlety and intellectual depth it has captured the human imagination for centuries. alphago is the first computer program to ever beat a professional, human player. read more about the game of go and how alphago is using machine learning to master this ancient game .
in october 2015, the program alphago won 5 - 0 in a formal match against the reigning 3 - times european champion, fan hui, to become the first program to ever beat a professional go player in an even game. now alphago will face its ultimate challenge: a 5 - game challenge match in seoul against the legendary lee sedol, the top go player in the world over the past decade, for a $ 1m prize. for full details, see the press release .
the matches were held at the four seasons hotel, seoul, south korea, starting at 13: 00 local time (04: 00 gmt; day before 20: 00 pt, 23: 00 et) on march 9th, 10th, 12th, 13th and 15th .
the matches were livestreamed on deepmind’s youtube channel as well as broadcast on tv throughout asia through korea’s baduk tv, as well as in china, japan, and elsewhere. match commentators included michael redmond, the only professional western go player to achieve 9 dan status. redmond commentated in english, and yoo changhyuk professional 9 dan, kim sungryong professional 9 dan, song taegon professional 9 dan, and lee hyunwook professional 8 dan commentated in korean alternately. the matches were played under chinese rules with a komi of 7. 5 (the compensation points the player who goes second receives at the end of the match). each player received two hours per match with three lots of 60 - second byoyomi (countdown periods after they have finished their allotted time) .
in 2009, film - maker and former ai programmer raj dye spent his summer following futurist ai researchers ben goertzel and hugo degaris around hong kong and xiamen, documenting their doings and gathering their perspectives. the result, after some work by crack film editor alex mackenzie, was the 45 minute documentary singularity or bust — a uniquely edgy, experimental singularitarian road movie, featuring perhaps the most philosophical three - foot - tall humanoid robot ever, a glance at the fast - growing chinese research scene in the late aughts, and even a bit of a real - life love story. the film was screened in theaters around the world, and won the best documentary award at the 2013 la cinema festival of hollywood and the la lift off festival. and now it is online, free of charge, for your delectation .
singularity or bust is a true story pertaining to events occurring in the year 2009. it captures a fascinating slice of reality, but bear in mind that things move fast these days. for more recent updates on goertzel and degaris’s quest for transhuman ai, you’ll have to consult the internet, or your imagination .
machine learning is the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed. in the past decade, machine learning has given us self - driving cars, practical speech recognition, effective web search, and a vastly improved understanding of the human genome. machine learning is so pervasive today that you probably use it dozens of times a day without knowing it. many researchers also think it is the best way to make progress towards human - level ai. in this class, you will learn about the most effective machine learning techniques, and gain practice implementing them and getting them to work for yourself. more importantly, you’ll learn about not only the theoretical underpinnings of learning, but also gain the practical know - how needed to quickly and powerfully apply these techniques to new problems. finally, you’ll learn about some of silicon valley’s best practices in innovation as it pertains to machine learning and ai .
this course provides a broad introduction to machine learning, datamining, and statistical pattern recognition. topics include: (i) supervised learning (parametric / non - parametric algorithms, support vector machines, kernels, neural networks). (ii) unsupervised learning (clustering, dimensionality reduction, recommender systems, deep learning). (iii) best practices in machine learning (bias / variance theory; innovation process in machine learning and ai). the course will also draw from numerous case studies and applications, so that you’ll also learn how to apply learning algorithms to building smart robots (perception, control), text understanding (web search, anti - spam), computer vision, medical informatics, audio, database mining, and other areas .
can i earn a course certificate if i completed this course before they were available? in order to verify one’s identity and maintain academic integrity, learners who completed assignments or quizzes for machine learning prior to november 1st will need to redo and resubmit these assessments in order to earn a course certificate. to clarify, both quizzes and programming assignments need to be resubmitted. though your deadlines may have technically passed, please be assured that you may resubmit both types of assessments at any time. we apologise for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we strive to ensure the integrity and value of our certificates .
please note that, in order to earn a course certificate, you must complete the course within 180 days of payment, or by may 1, 2016, whichever is earlier .
this talk took place on 20th january 2016 – at the world economic forum annual meeting (and was developed in partnership with arirang) .
matthew grob, executive vice - president and chief technology officer, qualcomm, usa andrew moore, dean, school of computer science, carnegie mellon university, usa stuart russell, professor of computer science, university of california, berkeley, usa ya - qin zhang, president, baidu. com, people’s republic of china
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when it comes to news design, there' s print, digital and then there' s embroidery. at least according to hannah wise, the engagement editor at the dallas morning news .
download the november 2017 snd wallpaper created by edel rodriguez or download the 2017 full snd calendar with the most important events of the year and of course snd events. showcase is snd’s new space for designers to show their works in print and online. be proud of your work and inspire others to be creative. did you [ … ]
download the november 2017 snd wallpaper created by fê or download the 2017 full snd calendar with the most important events of the year and of course snd events. showcase is snd’s new space for designers to show their works in print and online. be proud of your work and inspire others to be creative. did you or [ … ]
01 / 14 / 18 - - 08: 49: sndhk2018 will be the first international infographics event to take place in hong kong .
snd region 19 — asia, south - pacific is delighted to announce the snd hong kong infographic summit on april 13 - 15, 2018. infographics are an important tool for innovative storytelling and crucial for attracting young readers. this is a unique opportunity to meet and learn from some of the best infographics minds in the international market .
01 / 22 / 18 - - 08: 22: the incredible john maeda will be the first keynote speaker at # sndnyc .
he is currently global head of computational design + inclusion at automattic. previously, he received the white house’s national design award, was a tenured research professor at the mit media lab and served as the president of the rhode island school of design .
the time to enter this year’s best of digital design may have passed, but we are still looking for your input in nominating organizations from around the world for our world’s best. so please – nominate! this can be your or some other’s organization / publication that you feel has been leading the industry in how to [ … ]
there' s a lot going on right now in the industry. workshops, competitions and trainings. it' s hard to keep track! but, you definitely won' t want to miss following along during the malofiej world summit .
it’s almost time for malofiej. the malofiej awards have since 1993 given recognition to the best infographicspublished in print and on - line across the globe. every march an international jury meets for nearly four days at the school of communication at the university of navarra in pamplona (spain). they select those works worthy of gold, silver or bronze medals from [ … ]
the society for news design is proud to announce the results of the 2017 edition of its best of digital design competition. 13 judges, from across the united states and around the globe, reviewed more than 1, 000 entries during 2 days of judging at northwestern university’s medill campus in washington, d. c. this is the sixth [ … ]
jason hadjioannou ( greek : ιάσονας χατζηιωάννου ) is an english-greek technology developer from chingford , london , currently developing artificial intelligence technology for bloom ai . jason is known as the creator of the social networking service " la-la " . 
jason hadjioannou (greek: ιάσονας χατζηιωάννου) is an english-greek technology developer from chingford, london, currently developing artificial intelligence technology for bloom ai. jason is known as the creator of the social networking service " la-la ".
jason hadjioannou (greek: ιάσονας χατζηιωάννου) is an english-greek technology developer from chingford, london, currently developing artificial intelligence technology for bloom ai. jason is known as the creator of the social networking service " la-la ".