Artificial Intelligence

A new BuzzFeed quiz is the first in what VP of Product Chris Johanesen said he’s hoping will be a series of “stunt-y experiments” that the publisher launches this year. The quiz, timed for Valentine’s Day weekend, promises to “create your perfect boyfriend (or girlfriend) using AI technology.” Johanesen said it’s designed to “poke fun at the situation we’re all in” (quarantine, … [Read more...] about BuzzFeed uses AI to create romantic partners in its latest quiz – TechCrunch

Work and the 40th coffeeMy fingers were jittering due to continuous typing, eyes hurt due to over screen time. ‘There’s another downtime’ shouted Dan. I sighed!I desperately needed some sleep.But my head was inside the code we were trying to run.Our team had decided to upgrade our artificial intelligence system to be more fair and unbiased in a span of 3 days. This was the … [Read more...] about The lost lady series: The selfishness behind the WHY

Source: Gérard Julien/AFP/Getty ImagesMicrosoft has recently been granted a controversial patent to recreate a deceased person as a conversational bot using their online data.The concept of “bringing dead back to life” using technology is not cutting-edge as it may sound at first and it’s already been promoted in the past, generating contrasting reactions.New technological … [Read more...] about The Rise of Digital Afterlife

2/12/2021Magnite, the largest Ad tech company announced that it agrees to buy SpotX for a $1.17 billion deal in order to create the largest independent video advertising platform in the programmatic marketplace and to expand CTV ad sales. Together, Magnite and SpotX hope this deal will provide the best support for sellers and will create an alternative to the connected TV … [Read more...] about Marketing Numbers of the Week

If I say transformer paper disrupted the entire AI/ML community, I wouldn’t exaggerate. We are now seeing an entire line of work based on transformers, not only in the original NLP domain but also in the computer vision domain. I’d like to list a couple of recent popular works that came out recently:In the NLP domain, GPT-2 [6], BERT [7], and, lately, GPT-3 [8]became state of … [Read more...] about Attention to Transformers

Let (Xk, Yk), k = 1, 2, …, n be a statistical sample from a pair of two random variables, X & Y.First, we compute the n by n distance matrices (aj, k) and (bj, k) containing all pairwise distances.Then we take the double centered distances.From a visual perspective, by taking the double centered distances, we are transforming the matrix representation (the left) to the … [Read more...] about Introducing Distance Correlation, a Superior Correlation Metric.

We all learn differently.Not just at different paces, but in different ways. This could be a reason as to why people are inclined towards different things — some of us are more creative, while others are more logical.Some of us enjoy public speaking and debates, while others enjoy painting and drawing.This inclination towards different paths stems from the way we think, and … [Read more...] about Speed up your data science learning process

Altair: Statistical visualization library for PythonPhoto by Pascal Bernardon on UnsplashData visualization is an integral part of data science. It is quite useful in exploring and understanding the data. In some cases, visualizations are much better than plain numbers at conveying information as well.The relationships among variables, the distribution of variables, and … [Read more...] about 5 Must-Know Data Visualizations for Better Data Analysis

Artificial intelligence is a combination of computer algorithms and human efforts to carry out a task typically associated with human intelligence. In other words, AI is made to lessen the burden of work with an efficient technology that saves resources and reduces errors.A human is bound to make errors and that is defined as human error. The future of healthcare is in the … [Read more...] about Artificial intelligence in HEALTHCARE

Sweden’s data protection authority, the IMY, has fined the local police authority €250,000 ($300k+) for unlawful use of the controversial facial recognition software, Clearview AI, in breach of the country’s Criminal Data Act. As part of the enforcement the police must conduct further training and education of staff in order to avoid any future processing of personal data in … [Read more...] about Sweden’s data watchdog slaps police for unlawful use of Clearview AI – TechCrunch