Real-world Personas
Until today, there’s been a significant gap between online personas and what actually happens in the real world. Unfortunately, the limits of only deriving information from online searches and website visits means web personas are in danger of being overly skewed to an aspect of a visitor’s life that is...
Terry Sejnowski on the Future of Machine Learning
In his new book, The Deep Learning Revolution, Terry Sejnowski explains how deep learning went from being an arcane academic field to a disruptive technology in the information economy. Sejnowski played an important role in the founding of deep learning, as one of a small group of researchers in the 1980s...
Why AI That Lives and Learns on the Device Will Save Our Privacy
Seeing Mark Zuckerberg summoned to Washington as a consequence of the improperly accessed personal data of millions of Facebook users by Cambridge Analytica marks a powerful defining moment of 2018 and a pivotal moment in our digital existence. Two fronts have clashed: the fast-moving pack of internet giants, harvesting and mining seas...
Machine Learning Projects: A Step by Step Approach
Machine learning is one of the most talked about fields in seemingly every industry spanning autonomous vehicles to health monitoring, financial management to education, robotics to biometrics, surveillance to home automation. Indeed, no industry will go untouched by the many machine learning technologies. The reasons for this boom are threefold:...
Human-Machine Interaction gets Emotional
You’ve seen it in just about every classic noir film: the disheveled suspect is man-handled into an old wooden chair before a small table in a nondescript, dimly lit room. A bright, harsh light is suddenly turned on and tilted, full glare, into the unshaven face. Then the interrogation begins....
