New Improved Machine Learning Platform by Google

New Machine Learning Platform by Google

It was announced by Google of a new machine learning platform which developers can use in their applications and solutions. 

It was presented at NEXT Google Cloud Platform user conference. It was stated by Google chairman Eric Schmidt "Google believes machine learning is “what’s next.”

The service is now available in limited preview and it was stated. “Major Google applications use Cloud Machine Learning, including Photos (image search), the Google app (voice search), Translate and Inbox (Smart Reply),” the company . “Our platform is now available as a cloud service to bring unmatched scale and speed to your business applications.”

Presently, Google’s Cloud Machine Learning platform consists of two parts: one that allows developers to build machine learning models from their own data, and another that offers developers a pre-trained model. To train or operate these machine learning models, developers can choose their data from tools such as Google Cloud Dataflow,Google BigQuery,Google Cloud Dataproc, Google Cloud Storage, and Google Cloud Datalab.

The pre-trained models include existing APIs like the Google Translate API and Cloud Vision API, but also new services like the Google Cloud Speech API. The Cloud Speech API powers Google’s own voice search and voice-enabled apps. It can do speech-to-text conversion for 80+ languages.

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Artificial Intelligent Facebook Personal Digital Assistant

Facebook Personal Digital Assistant on Messenger App via Artificial Intelligence 

The messenger app has moved another level in terms of capabilities for its users, following this new capability. As a result this new offering is a competing solution with the other IT giants such as Apple Siri, Google and Microsoft Cortana in the digital personal assistant arena.

The Facebook Messenger lead David Marcus stated:

We are beginning to test a new service called M. M is a personal digital assistant inside of Messenger that completes tasks and finds information on your behalf. It’s powered by artificial intelligence that’s trained and supervised by people.

The differentiating factor from other Artificial Intelligence services currently available as from the examples mentioned above is that the facebook service called M is able to complete tasks on a user behalf.  Furthermore, it can also purchase items, organize orders to be delivered to your friends locations, book restaurants, travel arrangements, appointments and much more.

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Surgery by Auto Robots Advanced Platform From Google and Johnson & Johnson (Ethicon)

Google and Johnson & Johnson (Ethicon) have announced and following news that they are partnering in order to develop an advanced robot surgery platform with a view to possibly decrease the risk of human error and increase autonomous patterns of procedures. 

It results in a partnership that will include capabilities, intellectual property and expertise from both companies, and will involve Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon, an expert maker of medical devices.

However at this stage the companies are not intending to fully replace human surgeons, nevertheless the potential and as a natural development this goal may be in their projects objectives.

At present, robot-assisted surgery does require a human surgeon that is in full control of instruments via a computer or a remote device.

In this context, it is not new that Google Glass has been previously used in robot-assisted surgery configurations, so Google already has an interest in this field not to mention the Artificial Intelligence R&D that it conducts. 

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Marketing New App Processes Natural Language, Machine Learning and Social Graphs

Following on the context on a recent development on third party content that could be hosted on Facebook , a new startup Keywee that processes content marketing is utilizing natural language processing, machine learning and social graphs so that it can filter patterns and recognize relevant stories for its users, which it claims to focus on content discovery and advertisement technology.

Content marketing is offered by a variety of businesses, and most tend to use different approaches in serving their users with data content based recommendations and discovery. These providers include Outbrain, Taboola, Contently, Newscred, among many others. ”

With this tool, content is analysed based on stories and matching to user profiles which can provide better results in terms of marketing and understanding for content placement.

A trending subject at the moment is that of paid content, as advertising is focusing more on programmatic models whereas prices continue to drop on placement data pools, 

Keywee, innovation is on the ability to find audiences for content, whether audiences are on Facebook, Twitter, or any other social platform. 

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Artificial Intelligence Businesses Catching Attention and Investment

So far this year artificial intelligence has caught the attention of Google with its DeepMind purchase in January, it now follows that a Venture Capital group is investing millions into Vicarious.

The investment was lead by Venture capital firm Formation 8 and the news were reported on the Wall Street Journal . 

This investment include partners such as Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and actor Ashton Kutcher. Re/code reports that Box CEO Aaron Levie, incoming Y Combinator president Sam Altman, Braintree founder Bryan Johnson, Khosla Ventures, Good Ventures Foundation, Felicis Ventures, Initialized Capital, Open Field Capital, Zarco Investment Group, Metaplanet Holdings and Founders Fund. It will be interesting to discuss this topic and innovation technology market at the Venture Capital World Summit 2014.

The background features of Vicarious is that it first announced as an initial showcase last year that it was capable with its own software to crack CAPTCHAs with at least 90 percent accuracy. Furthermore more recently Vicarious presented a solution system that can understand and process features on photographs including video processing very much emulating the interpretation and recognition capability of that of a human would.

Nevertheless, the technology if at all possible is still at least a decade away in building a fully functional autonomous virtual brain. However it does not mean that world class influential companies like Facebook and Google are not joining the game of intelligence potential.

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Artificial Intelligence Now Tracking Conversations on Social Media

Salorix has a new analytics tool called Amplify, this new tool is built based on machine learning relating to artificial intelligence and it is designed to operate on learning data acquired via social networking. The way it works by searching social media data involving user conversations and interactions that contain keywords based on specific search terms that flagged by any monitoring business. Furthermore, this analysis tool also searches for conversations that may be related and of interest to products and services that a business may be currently providing.

Amplify works as a supervised machine learning where the criteria for searching relevant conversations is based by scores given on a large data set of tweets that were made available publicly as interactive data. In order to improve its accuracy it bases its scores on input by humans that have voted relevance results. Users of Amplify can also further fine tune scores so that the program is as best and efficient as possible. it as the program works for them.

A direct consequence of this new solution, is that for marketers they can utilize the information to direct their campaigns to a relevant audience that is engaging and influential on their business services or products.
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Dancing and Martial Arts, Done by a Robot

For all Information Technology enthusiasts and particularly Artificial Intelligence the Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics sometime can appear too short on the possibilities of innovation.  We have found a robot that is capable of dancing, the humanoid robot was developed by Dongbu Robot.  This robot costs around $900, and is programmable which includes commands for movement and dancing. More information is available here.