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Why Deep Learning, and Why Now

Deep learning is all the rage today, as companies across industries seek to use advanced computational techniques to find useful information hidden across huge swaths of data. While the field of artificial intelligence i Read more…

All Eyes On AI in 2017

This might be the easiest 2017 prediction to make: Artificial intelligence will continue to generate big headlines and command a considerable share of the corporate pocketbook as companies look to bolster their products Read more…

Challenge: Automating Extraction of Mapping Data

A technology competition sponsored by commercial satellite imagery vendor DigitalGlobe will seek to advance development of machine- and deep-learning algorithms that would be applied to geospatial data for automated mapp Read more…

Spark ML Runs 10x Faster on GPUs, Databricks Says

Apache Spark machine learning workloads can run up to 10x faster by moving them to a deep learning paradigm on GPUs, according to Databricks, which today announced that its hosted Spark service on Amazon's new GPU cloud. Read more…

Microsoft Claims Speech Recognition ‘Parity’

Microsoft speech recognition researchers report they have achieved parity with humans using a testing framework that gauges error rates for professional transcribers and the ability to understand "open-ended conversation Read more…

Cognitive Platform Sharpens Focus on Unstructured Data

Big data platform vendors are increasingly focusing on churning through unstructured data, especially for text, audio and even security applications like insider threat analysis. Among the companies emerging in this indu Read more…

Twitter Buys Another Machine Learning Startup

Machine learning continues to make inroads among hyper-scalers who are increasingly using it to train rather then program algorithms. As if the technology needed any more promotion, Twitter announced its acquisition of a Read more…

AI to Surpass Human Perception in 5 to 10 Years, Zuckerberg Says

Machine learning-powered artificial intelligence will match and exceed human capabilities in the areas of computer vision and speech recognition within five to 10 years, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicted this week. Read more…

Machine Vision Used to Wrangle Image Explosion

We live in a world besotted with images: selfies, Instagram photos, video clips running on social media platforms that make it easy to instantly post images captured by smartphones and other devices. The explosion of Read more…

Google, Chipmaker Collaborate on Deep Learning For Mobile

Google and Movidius, a specialist in low-power machine vision chips, said this week they would collaborate to bring deep learning technology to mobile devices. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) said Wednesday (Jan. 27) it would i Read more…

Startup to Offer Neural Network Training in the Cloud

One of the most time-consuming components of using deep neural networks is training the algorithms to do their jobs. It can often take weeks to train or re-train the network--and that's after you set it up. A startup cal Read more…

How NVIDIA Is Unlocking the Potential of GPU-Powered Deep Learning

Companies across nearly all industries are exploring how to use GPU-powered deep learning to extract insights from big data. From self-driving cars and voice-directed phones to disease-detecting mirrors and high-speed se Read more…

IBM Watson Learns Deeply, So You Don’t Have To

Advances in the field of cognitive computing are stacking up as researchers push the bounds of deep learning and related techniques like neural networks. But organizations won't have to wait years for these advances to b Read more…

What Police Can Learn from Deep Learning

Police departments are increasingly turning to predictive analytics to help them fight crime, and the early returns are positive, with double-digit drops in crime rates reported in many cities. So what's next? According Read more…

Outsmarting Wine Snobs with Machine Learning

For most of us, picking good wine is a bit like picking ponies: Everybody has a method, but at the end of the day, the results aren't much better than chance. But one budding wine connoisseur/hacker at a big data analyti Read more…

Ersatz Thinks Up a GPU-Powered Neural Network

If you want to use neural networks to build models that can learn from data in human-like ways, but are having trouble figuring out where to start, you may want to check out Ersatz, the name of the new GPU-powered deep l Read more…

Deep Neural Networks Power Big Gains in Speech Recognition

Ten years ago, Bill Gates declared speech recognition as one of the "holy grails" of computing challenges that would fall within the next decade. Right on cue, Microsoft this week revealed that its research in deep neura Read more…

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