All stories by Ben
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Why Elon Musk is wrong about Level 5 self-driving cars
“I’m extremely confident that level 5 [self-driving cars] or essentially complete autonomy will happen, and I think ...
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AI models need to be 'interpretable' rather than just 'explainable'
Last November, Apple ran into trouble after customers pointed out on Twitter that its credit card service was discriminating ...
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How to trick deep learning algorithms into doing new things
Two things often mentioned with deep learning are “data” and “compute resources.” You need a lot of both when developing, training, and testing deep learning models. When developers don’t have a lot of training samples or access to very powerful servers, they use transfer ...
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Embarking on a Python journey? Then ‘Hands-on Machine Learning’ is a must read
Writing an all-encompassing book on Python machine learning is difficult, given how expansive the field is. But reviewing one is not an easy feat either, especially when it’s a highly acclaimed title such as Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow: Concepts, ...
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What is adversarial machine learning?
To human observers, the following two images are identical. But researchers at Google showed in 2015 that a popular object ...
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COVID-19 canceled doctors' office visits — these startups are bringing the doctor to you
What do you do when you can’t go to the doctor’s office? As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced people around the world to stay at home and avoid crowded and possibly contaminated areas, this has become a big concern. The pandemic has spurred a new wave of innovation, shedding ...
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Everything you need to know about transfer learning in AI
Today, artificial intelligence programs can recognize faces and objects in photos and videos, transcribe audio in real-time, ...
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Weird AI illustrates why algorithms still need people
These days, it can be very hard to determine where to draw the boundaries around artificial intelligence. What it can and ...
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What is the difference between artificial neural networks and biological brains?
What is the master algorithm that allows humans to be so efficient at learning things? That is a question that has perplexed ...
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Here's what’s stopping AI from reaching human-like understanding
The short excerpt below from the 1938 film La Femme du Boulanger (The Baker’s Wife) ingeniously depicts how the human ...
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These 2 books will strengthen your command of Python machine learning
Mastering machine learning is not easy, even if you’re a crack programmer. I’ve seen many people come from a solid background ...
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What will happen when we reach the AI singularity?
Should you feel bad about pulling the plug on a robot or switch off an artificial intelligence algorithm? Not for the moment. ...
