Machine Learning News Issue 35

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Crowdsourcing Used to Augment Machine Learning As unstructured data continues to pile up, different approaches and platforms are emerging to help businesses make greater analytical use of what otherwise might amount to clutter. Among the latest approaches is an "intelligent crowdsourcing platform" from Spare5, a Seattle-based startup specializing in, among other things, data "cleanup."

Google Calendar's New Goals Feature Uses Machine Learning | NewsFactor Network Google Calendar's New Goals Feature Uses Machine Learning By Shirley Siluk / NewsFactor Network If you have personal goals you've long wanted to achieve but just can't seem to find the time to do them, Google says it can help.

Machine learning is going to revolutionize the way you use your phone Shutterstock If you think chatbots are hot right now - being used in psychotherapy, turning into racist trolls, and presenting an existential threat to Apple - just wait until they turn into full-fledged personal assistants.

Machine Learning = Smarter Contract Lifecycle Management We've long been fascinated with the idea of smart robots that serve human society. Think about Isaac Asimov's "I, Robot" short stories, Robby in the film "Forbidden Plant," and R2D2 or BB8 in "Star Wars." In these works, robots have some significant advantages over people. They are highly intelligent without being ruled by emotions.

How Machine Learning Will Improve Retail and Customer Service Technology has transformed how customers and brands interact with each other. Shoppers once relied on face-to-face, in-store interactions to make purchases and receive support. Now, shoppers do their research before entering a store (81 percent of shoppers conduct online research before buying) and seldom rely on salespeople to help them make decisions.

Be Everywhere All the Time: Virtual Sales Coaching for Success As any coach or parent knows, the best time to teach and keep activities on track is in the moment and in context. The advantages are obvious. Everyone can use direction and positive reinforcement at the exact time when it makes a difference to be more successful.

Machine Learning Thesis Defense For both humans and machines, understanding the visual world requires relating new percepts with past experience. We argue that a good visual representation for an image should encode what makes it similar to other images, enabling the recall of associated experiences.

Learning Science Changes the Brain Man's mind was basically utilized for fundamental surviving activities, like protecting themselves as well as hunting and gathering. However, 200,000 years afterwards the same mind has the capacity to gain knowledge of abstract concepts, such as momentum, energy not to mention the law of gravity, which have just been officially identified in the past few hundreds of years.

Enterprise Search: Incorporating Machine Learning and Predictive Algorithms to Gain Relevance By Dick Weisinger Search for documents and data within the enterprise has been tough. A survey by SearchYourCloud found that people would spend between five and 25 minutes everytime they needed to look for a document. Much of the problem has been that tools for enterprise search have been lacking.

Machine Learning Could Be Weaponized In Fight Against ISIS By Christine Kern , contributing writer Deep learning machines could help decode ISIS as a network and develop strategy for defeat. The use of deep learning machines could help the Pentagon decode the structure of ISIS as a network and allow for a more precisely, developed strategy for its defeat, according to Pentagon Deputy Secretary Robert Work.