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Say Hello to Bard, Google’s Answer to ChatGPT
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Google’s Response to ChatGPT: What the Tech Giant Is Doing to Improve Its Own AI Efforts
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How AI Could Have Forseen the Crypto Crash -(It Already Analyzes Exchange Markets)
Historically, the stock market has been shown to swing high and low. If the same can be said of the crypto market, then we have been waiting quite a long time for things to start looking bullish. Apologies if you invested in crypto, but if the crypto bear market ever...
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How AI Could Have Helped Southwest Avoid Its Holiday Disaster
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Whether you are a small business with one or a couple AI tools implemented or an enterprise with a sophisticated suite of AI algorithms at your disposal, something you will need to focus on in the upcoming year, 2023, is just how the world of AI is going to change...
TikTok For Businesses in 2022 – Why Your Business Needs a TikTok SEO Strategy
When we talk about Search Engine Optimization (SEO), many of our minds naturally go to traditional search engines such as Google, Bing, even DuckDuckGo. However, more and more people are ditching these traditional search engines for a truly next-gen platform:...
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Machine Learning for Manufacturers: Employing Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality for Research and Development
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This article is part of an ongoing series on the uses for artificial intelligence (AI) in manufacturing, starting with our article introducing machine learning and AI, and their relevance to manufacturing. This article will cover how AI can be used for product...
Machine Learning for Manufacturers: Capacity Planning Prediction Using Artificial Intelligence
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How Google is Supporting Ukraine Throughout a Crisis
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Machine Learning for Manufacturers: Tracking and Managing Production Floor Operations Using Artificial Intelligence
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The Artificial Intelligence Technology That Powers Google’s Search Engine
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Why Cannabis Companies Should Look Beyond Branding in Their Marketing Efforts
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How Legislation on Digital Marketing Tools Will Impact Your Business—And How You Can Work Against It Using AI
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Machine Learning for Manufacturers: Value Creation with Artificial Intelligence
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AInsurance: How AI-Powered Lead Generation Can Benefit Insurance Companies
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Optimize Your Content and Webpages with These AI Services
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Bringing AI to SEO
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Enjoy Your Stay: How Automation is Going to Improve Your Next Night in a Hotel
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Machine Learning for Manufacturers: Transport the Goods Safely and Effectively with AI Solutions
Hit the Road, Jack The order of 5,000 plush orangutan dolls that your factory just manufactured has just been loaded into the back of the semi-truck for its voyage to the last remaining Toys ‘R’ Us in the world. Thanks to the AI prediction platform you recently...
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Artificial Intelligence Is Bringing Big Changes to the World of Agriculture
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Hiring With Artificial Intelligence: How to Use Machine Learning to Find the Best Candidate
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Monetizing the Metaverse: What Businesses Ought to Be Using the Metaverse For
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Using AI to Assist You in Professional Services
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Artificial Intelligence is Helping Content Regulation and Child Safety Online
Facebook, d/b/a Meta, is front-and-center in the debate around content regulation. Recently, in case you missed it (if that is even possible for someone online), Facebook has ignited social media, and other media platforms, aflame after a former employee and current...
I See You: AI and Facial Recognition
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Digital Transformation for Systems Integrations
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AI Services for the Government
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Conversational Computing for Your Congregation and Clients
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Checking in to the Metaverse: How the Hotel and Hospitality Industry is Benefitting from VR
If you have not been paying attention to the digital world’s latest advances—actual, proposed, or in-development—, then there is one word above all else that you ought to familiarize yourself with: Metaverse. The word went global after Facebook, stumbling from the...
Protecting Your Privacy: AI and De-Identification
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AI High: How AI is Improving the World of Education
When we tell you that advances in artificial intelligence are being incorporated into schools everywhere, from pre-school to the university level, you may have a few ideas as to what this resembles. Some of your ideas may actually have an analogue to reality. For...
Machine Learning Makes Outsourcing Manageable
Outsourcing has been a practice of companies big and small, major and minor, for a long time now, and that process is being streamlined through innovations in artificial intelligence, as seen in companies such as Findability Sciences’ BPO services. BPO stands for...
Channel Surfing and Machine Learning: How AI Improves Telecommunications and Utilities
Few fields have enjoyed as much growth in the past few centuries as telecommunications. Humble beginnings can be found in Alexander Graham Bell’s introduction of the telephone into society, or the inclusion of the television into the majority of American homes in the...
Add to Cart: How AI is Revolutionizing the World of Online Shopping
From Amazon to Zappos, online shopping is has become most people’s preferred method for buying products they need and do not need, along with items that we probably would not have encountered on a trip to the local Target, such as garden gnomes riding dogs. Whatever...
Man vs. Machine: Which Has the Better Mind?
“Intelligence” tends to denote how smart a person is, which in turn typically refers to a person’s aptitude for the traditional school subjects like math and science. A person’s ability to understand knowledge and, importantly, apply it, is the measure of their...
General Motors’ Driverless Car Unit Slows Down, and What This Means for AI Innovation
American auto giant General Motors has been pedal to the metal in the race to incorporate artificial intelligence into the world of automobiles in innovative ways, and at the forefront of those efforts is its self-driving automobile unit, Cruise, based in San...
The US Government’s National Artificial Intelligence Initiative is One Giant Leap for AI
If you want to know what the future of America will look like, you can be assured, based primarily on efforts taking place in business and education and research institutions, that there will be widespread use of AI, and American politicians are helping foster this...
Facebook Addresses Harmful Content Controversy with a Content-Regulating AI Tool
In recent months, a whistleblower who was previously employed by Facebook revealed that the company was often completely aware that content such as eating disorder posts and racist messages were being posted on this site. This ignited fierce debate between people who...
Swipe Again: How Credit Card Companies are Using AI to Improve Financial Transactions
Have you ever met a criminal hacker? In credit card fraud, pretty much every purchase you make is information that can be exploited. This is especially true if you are an online shopper. Credit card fraud is only getting worse, with a 40% increase in cases reported...
Can Artificial Intelligence Help Humanity Solve Moral Dilemmas? Why AI Researchers in Seattle are Looking for the Answer, and Why it Affects You.
Should I rob a bank if I am poor? Is it okay to clean a toilet bowl with a wedding dress? Can I stab a cheeseburger? These odd questions are some of the examples that are used as examples on the website for Delphi, the prototype of an artificial intelligence moral...
Holding AI Accountable: How Can the Machine, the User, and the Maker Become Better?
Many controversies have sprung up in the the world of AI recently, many of which involve the problem of bias or just poor ethical judgment in a machine learning agent. Examples include algorithms that screen potential home renters or buyers having a bias against...
Borrowing with Bots: How AI is Revolutionizing Financial Collections
Debt collections, in its various forms, tend to be represented by a human, either the creditor themself or sent by a creditor, demanding payment from the debtor. A landlord knocking on the door demanding rent. A tough guy who is probably connected to the mob that...
Why the “Transformation” of Digital Transformation is Only the First Step to Success
You may have heard the phrase “digital transformation” being tossed around lately, but may be wondering what exactly it means. Digital transformation has gone under a number of names over the past few decades, most notably “digitization,” but the meaning has not...
Robot-atouille? How AI Can Help Your Restaurants Thrive in the Kitchen.
When you hear of AI and restaurants, your mind may immediately imagine a frustrating experience with an automated cashier at a McDonald’s, repeating for the eleventh time that you want a Quarter Pounder, not a “Quart of Powerade.” Rest assured, this is not quite what...
7 Tips for Implementing AI in Enterprise
There's ALOT of talk about AI. Many digital agencies claim to have it, few actually do. Most owners we speak to don't even care to understand it they just want to know how it will impact their business. If you're a decision maker, below are a few tips to...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 49
This is the forty-ninth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will open back up our discussion of reinforcement learning, a topic we delved into a fair number of articles ago, for the purpose of filling you in...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 48
This is the forty-eighth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will continue our discussion of the main topic of our last essay, which is the combination of two popular forms of machine learning: Analytical...
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This is the forty-seventh article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will move our discussion of the main topic of the last few essays, a concept that is called “Analytical Learning,” which includes the popular form...
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This is the forty-sixth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will continue our discussion of a concept that is called “Analytical Learning,” which includes a popular form of learning called “explanation-based...
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This is the forty-fifth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will introduce a concept that is called “Analytical Learning,” which includes a popular form of learning called “explanation-based learning,” which...
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This is the forty-fourth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will continue our lesson on the concept of learning sets of rules in machine learning. We will dive deeper into the process of learning a “set” of...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 43
This is the forty-third article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will introduce the concept of learning sets of rules in machine learning. We’ll illustrate what it means to learn a “set” of rules (it is not a...
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This is the forty-second article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will continue the discussion of genetic algorithms, which is a form of learning that finds its basis in the biological concept of evolution. We will...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 41
This is the forty-first article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will introduce genetic algorithms, which is a form of learning that finds its basis in the biological concept of evolution. You’re back in grade...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 40
This is the fortieth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will continue the discussion of lazy vs. eager learning by going over the benefits and drawbacks of lazy learning and covering a few of the most popular...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 39
This is the thirty-ninth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will outline the difference between lazy vs. eager learning. It is the day of the big test, and you feel woefully over-prepared. You have...
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This is the thirty-eighth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will continue the discussion of computational learning theory, a school of thought dedicated to answering or even just pondering some of the most...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 37
This is the thirty-seventh article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will introduce computational learning theory, a school of thought dedicated to answering or even just pondering some of the most profound,...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 36
This is the thirty-sixth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will go further into detail on Bayesian learning, one of the key approaches to learning in the machine learning field, covering the different ways...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 35
This is the thirty-fifth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will go into detail on Bayesian learning, one of the key approaches to learning in the machine learning field. If you’ve made it this far in the...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 34
This is the thirty-fourth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will give a brief overview of the history of machine learning. Our previous article dealt with the capability of a machine learning agent to reach...
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This is the thirty-third article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will detail a major development in the field of artificial intelligence, which is the restoration of art. We’ll go over some of the key machine...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 32
This is the thirty-second article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will discuss the decision-making behind choosing one learning algorithm over another, a key aspect of the machine learning process. There’s more...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 31
This is the thirty-first article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will cover confidence intervals, a key aspect of the machine learning process of evaluating a learned hypothesis. Additionally, this article will...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 30
This is the thirtieth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will dive into the machine learning process of evaluating a learned hypothesis, and what methods an agent employs to do such a thing. If you’ve ever...
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Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 29
This is the twenty-ninth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will discuss the problems to be found in the machine learning process of evaluating a learned hypothesis. Many Americans have heard the legend...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 28
This is the twenty-eighth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will extend the discussion of the types of environments an AI agent will need to deal with. Our last article in the series covered a few of the...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 27
This is the twenty-seventh article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will cover the types of environments an AI agent will need to deal with. Driving on the highway during a heavy downpour is one of the most...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 26
This is the twenty-sixth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will cover backpropagation algorithms, which is the most important type of learning method employed for neural networks in machine learning agents. ...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 25
This is the twenty-fifth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will cover common types of search algorithms in machine learning. When we are running down our many options for dinner, we tend to do a mental...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 24
This is the twenty-fourth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will cover common machine learning problems that neural networks are good at solving. The mind is a jungle. Or the ocean. Take your pick. Whatever...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 23
This is the twenty-third article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will continue the discussion of bias in Machine Learning agents by focusing on the bad kind of bias, where an agent will make decisions that...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 22
This is the twenty-second article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will dive into the issue of bias in Machine Learning agents, specifically biases in the process of induction. Note that this is not covering bias...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 21
This is the twenty-first article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will explain another fundamental aspect of machine learning, which is concept learning. We’ll tell you how it is that a machine learning agent,...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 20
This is the twentieth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will introduce a “basic” language of many machine learning agents, which is First Order Logic (FOL). We’ll show how this language allows for logical...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 19
This is the nineteenth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will focus on the design of learning systems, providing an overview of essential concepts like target functions and representations of target...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 18
This is the eighteenth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will discuss the problem of creating ethical agents in the field of machine learning, demonstrating why it is important for developers to think of the...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 17
This is the seventeenth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will cover a field of AI that can be physically viewed in action: Robotics. We will specifically focus on how aspects of machine learning play a role...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 16
This is the sixteenth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will introduce one of the most innovative and essential fields of AI: computer vision (CV). Like language, the ability to see is something that many...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 15
This is the fifteenth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will continue the discussion of natural language processing (NLP) by considering how it can be assisted by deep learning, another major field of...
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Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 14
This is the fourteenth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will continue the discussion of natural language processing (NLP) by covering a few of the essential components that go into the development on an NLP...
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This is the thirteenth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will introduce the concept of natural language processing (NLP) and cover the role of natural language processing in machine learning. ...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 12
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This is the eleventh article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning (ML). Today’s article will provide a general overview of reinforcement learning (RL), which is distinguished from other types of machine learning because of its...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 10
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Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 9
This is the ninth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning. Today’s article will be continuing the discussion on learning algorithms, with a focus on ensemble learning, which can help agents work around complications brought about by...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 8
This is the eighth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning. Today’s article will go in-depth on one of the most widely-used forms of machine learning, which is decision tree algorithms. This piece will offer insight into a few aspects...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 7
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Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 6
This is the sixth article in a series dedicated to the various aspects of machine learning. Today’s article will break types of algorithms used in machine learning, offering insight into the various ways that ML agents make use of data. Our previous article on the...
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 5
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Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 4
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Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning Part 3
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Robotics: What to Know About Machine Learning This is the third article in a series dedicated to the wide-ranging and various aspects of machine learning. Today’s article will focus on the multiple learning techniques that a machine...
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