Machine Learning News Issue 46

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Beyond Siri: The AI revolution coming from the web From HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey to Samantha in Spike Jonze's Her, for decades we have been obsessed with the idea that artificial intelligence powered-computers will one day be able to interact with people, follow spoken instructions and make decisions independently, like a human would.

How to build a robot's brain - The Daily Reckoning - UK Edition by Sean Keyes Posted 11th May 2016 If you haven't heard about machine learning lately, you haven't been reading the papers... Here's some machine intelligence news from just the last week: a giant hedge fund, the Man Group, ordered an Oxford University department it funds to switch its focus to machine learning...

How smart storage will rescue big data | ZDNet IBM researchers are demoing an intelligent storage system that works something like your brain: It's easier to remember something important, like a beautiful sunset over the Grand Canyon, than the last time you waited for a traffic light. Here's how it works.

The Role of DQM in Machine Learning and Predictive Analysis - Blazent (null)

'Machine learning' a boon for insurers, but can't replace human touch in healthcare The concept of "machine learning" has tremendous potential to help health insurers leverage data and improve care, though one prominent insurance CEO argues that such disruptive technologies will never be able to replace the valuable role of clinicians.

Is Your Machine Learning Algorithm Smarter Than a Dog? | Xconomy Do we need an Asimov's Law for chatbots? And how do they compare with a talking parrot? What can dairy farmers learn from outfitting cows with pedometers? How can algorithms better explain to humans not just what they're predicting, but why?

Enhancing efficiency via machine learning Firms are increasingly using machine learning technology in their efforts to drive automation and innovation Mumbai: Gurgaon-based employability assessment company Aspiring Minds is perhaps best known for giving the industry a very dim view of the quality of engineers in India. According to its 20 January report, "more than 80% of engineers in India continue to be unemployable".

Machine Learning Technologies Introduce a Step Change in Maintenance and Reliability (null)

Schoold Uses Machine Learning to Do Your College Scholarship Hunt | Xconomy Now that high school seniors have made the fateful choice of a college to attend in the fall, their parents are free to pull out tufts of hair as they figure out how to pay for it. Scholarships are life-saving options, but they can be hard to ferret out, says San Francisco-based startup Schoold, which offers a free college-planning mobile app.

Deep Machine Learning provides state-of-the-art performance in image-based plant phenotyping bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution