Machine Learning News Issue 16

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Facebook is using AI to make detailed maps of where people live Facebook is now applying its significant computing muscle toward creating maps of where people live and how that affects their internet connections. The maps should help Facebook determine which types of connectivity solutions work best for the 10 percent of the world's population without internet access.

Why big tech companies are open-sourcing their AI systems The world's biggest technology companies are handing over the keys to their success, making their artificial intelligence systems open-source. Traditionally, computer users could see the end product of what a piece of software did by, for instance, writing a document in Microsoft Word or playing a video game.

How Machine Learning Works [Interactive] As an employee of a company that provides digital security through machine learning, Stephanie Yee spent a lot of time familiarizing clients with the secret sauce behind her product. So she and her colleague, designer Tony Chu, set out to create an interactive graphic that would do the explaining for them.

How machine learning can influence the customer journey Delivering great customer experiences based on mapping how customers interact with your brand across all touchpoints can be challenging for any marketer. Doing it at scale can seem impossible. According to one expert, when it comes to ensuring great customer experiences via one-to-one personalization, machine learning is the answer.

How Landr is bringing machine learning to the music business Before a hit song ever reaches your ears, chances are it's gone through a process called mastering. It's a somewhat mysterious and rarefied technique for outsiders, one performed by trained audiophiles who essentially fine-tune a mix so that the finished track sounds loud, clear, and consistent with other songs on an album.

Nasdaq adds machine learning to surveillance platform Nasdaq has signed a partnership with Digital Reasoning that will allow it to incorporate machine-learning technology into its Smarts platform, a step that will increase trading firms' abilities to monitor for fraud and market abuse. Digital Reasoning's technology uses cognitive computing to analyse the context around pieces of information.

Let's hope the NSA hasn't actually used this machine-learning model to target drone strikes The U.S. National Security Agency could be relying on a seriously flawed machine-learning model to target drone strikes in Pakistan, according to a new analysis of slides uncovered last year by whistleblower Edward Snowden. last May by The Intercept, the slides detail the NSA's so-called Skynet program, in which machine learning is apparently used to identify likely terrorists in Pakistan.

MasterCard's Machine-Learning Network Thwarts ATM Attacks MasterCard Inc. says new machine-learning technology has helped it quickly control three separate cyberattacks that targeted automated bank tellers, limiting the damage to about $100,000 each. The transaction-monitoring system, which also employs data visualization tools, caught the three attacks during the first two months of 2016, according to MasterCard.

Can Machine Learning Decode Depression? D epression affects almost 15 million Americans and is the leading cause of disability among U.S adults, yet many people with depression continue to go undiagnosed and untreated. Depression remains a condition that is identified through a clinical assessment focused on signs and symptoms, and there is currently no available diagnostic blood test or scan for depression.

E8 Security Chooses Cloudera Enterprise to Build Next Generation, Machine Learning Based Security Analytics Solution for Defending Against Cyber Threats - EconoTimes PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 24, 2016 -- Cloudera, the global provider of the fastest, easiest, and most secure data management and analytics platform built on Apache Hadoop and the latest open source technologies, announced today it is partnering with E8 Security, a pioneer in behavioral intelligence and cybersecurity, to deliver scalable, self-learning security analytics for detecting and prioritizing enterprise cybersecurity threats.