The Future of AI, Free Data Books, Making Better Future Predictions by AI and GANs

Driven by a massive increase in data, soaring computational power at shrinking costs, and breakthroughs in technology, AI is now a commercial reality.

As a productivity enhancer, it is augmenting human labor and physical capital, optimizing processes with intelligent automation systems, and propelling new innovations. But perhaps even more importantly, if AI can take over the repetitive work of your people, their new role description could be finding new ways to contribute to the higher purpose of your company.

I recently hosted a panel discussion with ??? Ben Taylor , Chief AI Evangelist at?DataRobot ,?Prof. Matt Kuperholz , Chief Data Scientist at?PwC , and?Peter Williams , Healthcare Advisor APAC,?Oracle about the Future of AI, AGI, Bias and having a beer on the beach!

Don’t miss the discussions, check it out here .

• [TC]?VR glove startup says Meta ’s recently unveiled prototype is ‘substantively identical’ to theirs : Meta, showed off a new prototype haptic feedback glove and a VR startup with that same mission called HaptX released a fairly aggressive statement accusing Meta of showing off “substantively identical” glove to their own patented technology.
• [The Verge] Several states are investigating how Instagram keeps kids on the platform : AI recommender algorithm is responsible for delivering content to keep us more glued to our phone watching Tiktok or Instagram posts.
• [Time]?100 groundbreaking inventions 2021 —including vaccines for COVID-19 and malaria, an emotional support robot for hospitalized children, an environmentally friendly dye for jeans, and a brand new pasta shape—that are changing how we live, work, play and think about what’s possible.
• [ZDNet]?Google launches Bot-in-a-Box to nudge along conversational AI : The new Bot-in-a-Box feature lets businesses launch a chatbot with an existing customer FAQ document, whether it's from a web page or an internal document, to keep the service simple.
• [Google AI]?Making Better Future Predictions by Watching Unlabeled Videos : successful future prediction requires both capturing meaningful transitions in the environment (e.g., dough transforming into bread) and adapting to how transitions unfold over time in order to make decisions.
• [Bloomberg]?AI Giant SenseTime Wins Nod for Over $1 Billion Hong Kong IPO : It makes AI technology for interpreting images and facial recognition, plans to start gauging demand for its IPO as soon as next week, the people said, asking not to be identified as the information isn’t public.

• [HBR]?Managing AI Decision-Making Tools: these decision-making algorithms are often described as artificial intelligence (AI). The critical question is, how do human managers manage these types of algorithm-powered systems. An autonomous system is conceptually very easy. Imagine a driverless car without a steering wheel!
• [ArXiv]?Attention Mechanisms in Computer Vision: A Survey ( Paper /Repo of the papers )
• [LinkedIn Post] GAN Sketching : It takes in one or a few hand-drawn sketches and customizes an off-the-shelf GAN to match the input sketch. It changes an object’s shape and pose but other visual cues such as color, texture, background, are faithfully preserved after the modification.
• [TC]?How MLOps is accelerating enterprise AI adoption : Enterprises are in a similar phase of trying out and accepting machine learning (ML) in their production environments, and one of the accelerating factors behind this change is MLOps.Similar to cloud-native startups, many startups today are ML native and offer differentiated products to their customers.
• [FC] AI and data: The 15 next big things, from culture-aware algorithms to password-free security : Microsoft and InfernoRed’s platform for safer elections, fraud-preventing puzzles, a tool for detecting bias in automated decision-making systems, and more.
• [Meta] Teaching AI to perceive the world through your eyes??

• [??]?MLOps repository : 40+ Pytorch implementation of different GANs (SOTA GANs: LGAN, TACGAN, StyleGAN2, MDGAN, MHGAN, ADCGAN, ReACGAN.)
• [??]?Convolutional Neural Network Cheatsheet
• [??] Free Data Science Books (20+)
• [??]?15 Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer
• [??] Cant argue with this one!

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