Machine Learning News Issue 33

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Bots Could Permanently Change the Military Chain of Command Everyone on the internet had a great time with Tay, Microsoft's Twitter robot that became a racist Holocaust denier in a matter of a few hours (then came back and did it again).

How to approach machine learning as a non-technical person The last few years have seen an explosion of interest in machine learning technology and potential applications. As a non-expert, you've probably either had to assess ML technology for your product and business or as a potential investment.

Advancing Machine Learning to Uncover New Insights The sheer volume and unstructured nature of the data generated by billions of connected devices and systems presents significant challenges for those in search of turning this data into insight. For many, machine learning holds the promise of not only structuring this vast amount of data but also to create true business intelligence that can be monetized and leveraged to guide decisions.

Machine learning's biggest job When Satya Nadella made machine learning the centerpiece of the Microsoft Build conference, I think it became official: 2016 is the year of machine learning. All the major clouds now have (or will soon have) machine learning APIs. In fact, InfoWorld's Martin Heller has already reviewed the machine learning services offered by AWS, Azure, and IBM Cloud.

IBM TrueNorth-Based Computer Chip Monitors Brain Activity And May Help Predict Seizures International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation and University of Melbourne partner for a very unique but significant undertaking. They are trying to test if TrueNorth may be used to predict seizures. Contrary to popular belief, seizures, a condition defined as the brain's electrical activity going haywire, don't usually occur suddenly.

3 Ways Machine Learning Makes Your Content More Effective Recently, an AI from Deep Mind called Alpha Go beat the 5th ranked Go player in the world, a feat that most thought was about a decade off. That's the way things are going these days in the world of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Industry Veteran Calls Machine Learning 'Critical' to Detect Tomorrow's Threats Darktrace, the leader in Enterprise Immune System technology, presented a radical vision of cyber defense at InfoSec World 2016, Orlando, yesterday, where 'immune system'-inspired technology can automatically find and respond to evolving cyber-threats. IT Security Architect at Steelcase, Stuart Berman, joined Sean O'Connor, Director at Darktrace on the conference stage as a guest speaker, to discuss how enterprises can tackle the cyber security challenges of tomorrow.

RankBrain & It's Potential Impact on All Parts of Organic Search In today's hangout, someone asked an inevitable RankBrain question, this time about whether Google's RankBrain impacts other parts of the organic search, such as news and image results. Is Rankbrain's query processing used by organic results only, or are any parts shared with other widgets, e.g. images, Shopping/PLAs, etc?

Google Is Launching a New Machine Learning Platform ( Newswire.net -- April 8, 2016) -- Google's job since inception has been to make everyone's lives easier, from everyday consumers to business people. At the NEXT Google Cloud Platform user conference in San Francisco, Google's officials announced they're taking it a step further by offering limited access to a new machine-learning platform that everyone can use.

The Future of Economics May Be in the Hands of Machine Learning Ari Amster Economists have largely preferred to act within their own field and interpretations. However, the rise of big data challenges, data analytics, and machine learning is beginning to change all that. In the summer of 2015, Susan Athey, a Professor of Economics of Technology at Stanford attracted a crowd of over 250 economists for a one-day instructive session on machine learning.