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Greatest Hurdles in AI Proliferation in Education

Business + Management Conferences Applications Conferences West 2018posted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC July 16, 2019

Whenever we talk about AI’s applications, we tend to doubt the reality of AI proliferation in education. The advancements and new research don’t talk much about applications in education, and Varun Arora, founding director of Open Curriculum, has some ideas about why this might be the... Read more

OS for AI: How Serverless Computing Enables the Next Gen of ML

Business + Management Conferences Machine Learning Conferences West 2018posted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC July 11, 2019

Jon Peck is a Full Spectrum Developer & Advocate for Algorithmia, an open marketplace for algorithms. At ODSC West 2018, he delivered a talk “OS for AI” which discussed how serverless computing enables the next generation of machine learning. The slides for Peck’s presentation can be... Read more

Watch: State of the Art Natural Language Understanding at Scale

Conferences Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Conferences natural language understanding NLP West 2018posted by ODSC Team July 10, 2019

Natural language understanding is a key component in many data science systems that must understand or reason about text. Common use cases include question answering, paraphrasing or summarization, sentiment analysis, natural language BI, language modeling, and disambiguation. Building such systems usually requires combining three types of... Read more

Watch: Understanding Unstructured Data with Language Models

Conferences Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Conferences NLP West 2018posted by ODSC Team July 8, 2019

As data scientists, we’ve seen a rapid improvement in the last decades in the tools available for working with structured data (be it tabular data, graph data, sensor data etc.). Yet, the vast majority of our data (Merrill Lynch puts the figure at roughly 90%) is... Read more

Using Auto-sklearn for More Efficient Model Training

Machine Learning Modeling AutoML Conferences Machine Learningposted by Luke Coughlin June 14, 2019

Applying a machine learning algorithm to any number of data-related tasks can be an enormous time saver, but the variable factors associated with creating an algorithm can be daunting. One must consider a variety of design-related decisions, and the risks surrounding the creation of an accurate... Read more

Trends in AI: Towards Learning Systems That Require Less Annotation

Conferences Featured Post Conferences odsc east Opinionposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC June 12, 2019

There’s a lot of hype surrounding AI. Unfortunately, a lot of it is hyperbolic warnings about how we’ll lose our humanity and the machines will be smarter than we are. Just about every field and institution is preparing for an AI revolution. There’s even a brand... Read more

Adversarial Attacks on Deep Neural Networks

Conferences Modeling Conferences Neural Networks odsc eastposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC June 11, 2019

Our deep neural networks are powerful machines, but what we don’t understand can hurt us. As sophisticated as they are, they’re highly vulnerable to small attacks that can radically change their outputs. As we go deeper into the capabilities of our networks, we must examine how... Read more

Ben Vigoda on the New Era of NLP

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences NLP/Text Analytics Conferences NLPposted by Luke Coughlin May 30, 2019

Many apps and programs claim to be able to understand you and are at least capable of engaging in superficial interactions. Spend long enough talking to one of these programs, however, and you’ll no doubt see the hallmarks of imperfectly reproduced natural language. That technology has... Read more

ODSC East 2019: Major Applications of AI in Healthcare

Business + Management Conferences Conferences East 2019 Healthcareposted by Kailen Santos May 28, 2019

The healthcare industry has come a long way to arrive at what we know today as modern medicine. Medical professionals have spent decades putting their research to work in order to create a healthier population. But there’s always room for growth and innovation, especially with the... Read more

Watch: Challenges and Opportunities in Applying Machine Learning

Business + Management Conferences Machine Learning Accelerate AI Conferences Machine Learningposted by ODSC Team May 28, 2019

There are many opportunities in applying machine learning, whether as an individual developer or in a business. But how do you get started? This talk provides an overview that separates fact from fiction and proposes processes to find opportunities for applying ML. This includes understanding where... Read more