Machine Learning News Issue 48

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IBM Watson: Machine-Of-All-Trades - InformationWeek From fashion to food to healthcare, IBM's Watson has many guises across different industries. Here's a look at some of the work IBM's AI system has been doing since its Jeopardy! heyday. After defeating Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings in a game of Jeopardy! in 2011, IBM's Watson couldn't survive on its $77,147 in winnings.

Using Machine Learning to Enhance the Customer Experience - HPCwire Thanks to machine learning, the page you see when you log-on to Amazon.com is likely very different from the one I see. Advertising, product recommendations, and special deals are all tailored to our unique customer profiles based on historical browsing trends and buying behavior.

Machine Learning and Fraud: Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't Enough Machine-learning is all the rage in fraud detection, with industry analysts, academics, businesses and technology media examining the advantages of algorithms and big data in the fight against e-commerce fraud. Especially for fraud analysts working in companies with small budgets , machine-learning tools are seen as a cost-effective way to

What is machine learning: definition, how it works and applications Everyone is talking about it, but do you really know what machine learning is and what's here for? Machine learning is all about process optimisation. With this type of artificial intelligence discipline, machines and other electronic devices are able to learn on the go and adjust their behaviour to make production more efficient.

After Google, now Amazon open sources its machine learning engine DSSTNE Following examples set by the likes of Google and others, Amazon has made its Deep Scalable Sparse Tensor Network Engine (DSSTNE) generally available to researchers, developers and everyone else. The engine, which is used to provide product recommendations to Amazon shoppers - usually under the "You may also be interested in" - is now available on .

The real prerequisite for machine learning isn't math, it's data analysis When beginners get started with machine learning, the inevitable question is "what are the prerequisites? What do I need to know to get started?" And once they start researching, beginners frequently find well-intentioned but disheartening advice, like the following: You need to master math. You need all of the following: - Calculus - Differential equations [...]

Machine learning examples crop up for data center management For some leading-edge thinkers and organizations, machine learning is starting to appear in practical applications.... Although people have theorized about this subset of artificial intelligence for more than half a century, machine learning examples are finally making their way to the home territory of computer science -- the data center.

Companies are making 350% on their investments in machine learning - The Daily Reckoning - UK Edition by Sean Keyes Posted 17th May 2016 I've been skim-reading articles in The Economist, The Sunday Times and The Evening Standard lately about the coming wave of robotics and automation. Those articles are all the same. They talk vaguely about how robots will replace lots of white collar workers within ten years.

DataKind | Machine Learning To Help Rural Households Access Electricity Use historical customer payment behavior data to predict which new applicants are likely to be a good fit for their pay-as-you-go solar power systems program Customers that make three or fewer payments in its first 180 days have a 60% chance of having their system be repossessed.

Misconceptions about Machine Learning and Cybersecurity - DATAVERSITY by Angela Guess Sven Krasser and Dmitri Alperovitch recently wrote in Information Management, "Machine learning has never been more accessible than it is right now. Amazon utilizes it to uncover shopping habits and Netflix uses it to propose personalized movie selections... Leaders in the cybersecurity space are utilizing machine learning in a similar fashion.