AI - Top 30 Posts - Edition- II, Learn to Benefit!

I believe this artificial intelligence is going to be our partner. If we misuse it, it will be a risk. If we use it right, it can be our partner. - Masayoshi Son (SoftBank)

In this second edition of curated AI (Artificial, Augmented, Advanced, Automated - Intelligence) posts - I am covering Future of AI, AI Ethics, AI Forecasts for years to come, Advantages and Benefits of AI, Skepticism of AI, Some Intriguing news articles about AI and some General AI Topics in some good blogs - by some of the best and brightest authors and writers across the globe. I Hope you enjoy reading them.

Interesting Articles with Crisp Summary

• How can you stay on top of thousands of new papers are published in the Machine Learning and NLP research? This article is a brilliant read if you want to keep abreast of the latest developments. - 57 Summaries of Machine Learning and NLP Research

• How can you roll out your own high accuracy Machine Learning Models in a day? This article is a brilliant one to refer - Roll-your-own machine learning
• A cost optimized mobile ML course selected by Mashable's commerce team with a rigorous standards for awesomeness. - Learn to build apps driven by AI in this new course dedicated to mobile machine learning
• Well curated list of statistical techniques data scientists needs to master. - The 10 Statistical Techniques Data Scientists Need to Master
• A recursive curation! A brilliant post covering 10 blog posts of brilliance on Machine Learning - Machine Learning Top 10 Articles for the Past Month
• A real challenge for talent shortage. Companies are willing to pay a 20% premiums for basic skills for good candidates. When it comes to AI, ML and niche skills, good candidates get a fortune - including hefty stock options! - 2018's Software Engineering Talent Shortage— It’s quality, not just quantity
• A crisp article on how "information gold mine" companies have in the form of data can be leveraged in an advantageous manner by companies. Obviously, rightful use of AI and leveraging good tools and approaches are key. - Is Your Company’s Data Actually Valuable in the AI Era?
• One of the superstars of AI research and currently Director of AI at Facebook Research, Yann Lecun covers some key aspects of Deep Learning - A crisp summary indeed - Power of Deep Learning - By Yann Lecun. Yann recently questioned about the intelligence of the first robotic citizen of the world – SOPHIA by Hanson Robotics

Good articles covering Benefits of AI

• How can you build ML systems without coding? Google announced the alpha launch of AutoML Vision, a new service that helps developers — including those with no machine learning (ML) expertise — build custom image recognition models. - Google’s AutoML lets you train custom machine learning models without having to code
• Machine Learning for analytical masters who do not want to code and reap the benefits. Google just made it a lot easier to build your very own custom AI system. A new service, called Cloud AutoML, uses several machine learning tricks - Google’s Self-Training AI Turns Coders Into Machine-Learning Masters - MIT Technology Review
• Will Samsung revelation that its Internet of Things or IoT platform now has facial recognition technology mean a new way of operating connected devices, from Galaxy mobile? - Galaxy S9 To Feature Face ID? Samsung AI Gets Facial Recognition Technology
•  A brilliant use case of how AI can be beneficial with killer predictions (word play) for patients with terminal illnesses and give targeted care to address the challenges. - New AI System Predicts How Long Patients Will Live With Startling Accuracy
• https://cloud.google.com/automl/ is a brilliant tool for leveraging advanced APIs for computer vision and other recognition methods - Google Has Made It Simple for Anyone Tap Into Its Image Recognition AI
• This will become the next generation cold war and a global war without casualties with technology playing a key role in superior hegemony for superpowers. Per some published reports cyber security hackers from Russia have taken over electricity plants of Ukraine and similar state-sponsored cyber wars may expand the horizon of AI. - AI Can Help Hunt Down Missile Sites in China
• The Future of Life Institute, an AI watchdog organization supported by the likes of Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, releases a terrifying short film "SLAUGHTERBOTS" to warn about the dangers of technology gone awry in a dystopian world! - AI Experts Make a Terrifying Film Calling for a Ban on Killer Robots
• Will machines one day be conscious on the same level as humans? A new study describes three quantitative levels of consciousness, and current machine learning technologies only use one. - Neuroscience is helping us build a machine with consciousness
• Nice Slide share covering an approach to build fantastic ML applications - Fantastic ML apps and how to build them

Brilliant Articles having some critical analysis of AI Progress

• How champions of Ethics and Policies who champion (AI Intelligence as a solution to the kinds of biases that humans) fall prey to fail to understand the fact that even good law enforcement AI systems fall prey to the same biases. - A Law Enforcement A.I. Is No More or Less Biased Than People
• Will Point and Click AI be a reality soon, with the modularization of stable and proven AI tool-sets? - Google's Cloud AutoML And Its Push To Democratize Point And Click AI For All
•  A nice summary by a product leader who built a platform that uses AI-based cognitive computing for unstructured audio and video data to be processed, transformed, correlated, and analyzed to generate actionable intelligence. - Taking the narrow path to artificial general intelligence
• An argument of Eye-Wash Vs I wish - and the argument continues. Will AI help technology level the playing field of intelligence for humans and machines? How far are we? Is it a decade, two decades, Half a century? - AI won’t peak at human intelligence
• Its next generation of social security and real-time credit and associated societal rating of citizens. Will this breach all sorts of right to privacy and protection of citizens? Will this be a good use of technology for effective Governance? - Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens
• US Immigration department ICE asked Silicon Valley for technology to do ‘extreme vetting’ of immigrants as a part of deciding who is a contributing member of society. Will this become a fast track mode of naturalization in future, avoiding long wait times in an algorithmic manner? What are the repercussions? - Algorithm May Decide Who Is a ‘Contributing Member of Society,

The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity - Grady Booch

 Nice articles on AI Investments

•  A big move by Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) as Canada becomes a AI focused hub with Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal Triad of technology hubs - RBC opening AI lab in Montreal, joining several tech giants
• One of the benefits of AI based algorithms in investment industry is the fact that expense ratio is very less. A new AI powered ETF using IBM Watson has an expense ratio of 0.75% and uses machine learning for investment processes. The AI Powered Equity ETF is a new AI-based ETF that uses IBM Watson technology.

 Good training courses and material for AI and Data Science Enthusiasts

• A Good course for structuring ML Projects - Structuring Machine Learning Projects
• Good training program from Google on Big Data and Machine Learning - Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals
• Good online training programme recommended by many on Applied data science using Python, leveraging models useful for AI and ML - Applied Data Science with Python
• Another good program recommended by many on Applied data science using Python, leveraging models useful for AI and ML - A Crash Course in Data Science
• Very good training program from the institute that started the revolution in the silicon valley on Natural Language Processing - Stanford.NLP.CoreNLP - Stanford.NLP.NET
• Finally an article I wrote on AI for The Qrius Magazine - How Artificial Intelligence is revolutionising the industry with its limitless power

I hope you enjoyed the articles shared. Comments are welcome.

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