Hi there and welcome your Brain Boost. A
collaboration between Google's Deepmind
team in the UK and Oxford University. They
have been developing an AI platform
designed to read lips and, recently, they
published their astonishing results.
The AI team put their software up against
a professional lip reader for a string
of two hundred clips from television
broadcasts and the AI platform won big
time. The professional --the human-- got
about 12% of the words spoken
by people on TV without any error but the
AI platform got nearly 47%
percent of the words correctly. Almost
four times better than human and many of
the mistakes made by the software were
just missing little things like an "s" at
the end of the word. What's happening is
a total reorientation of cloud computing
towards AI. One person to follow in this
space is Oren Etzioni, who is the CEO of
the seattle-based nonprofit Allen
Institute for artificial intelligence.
I'm going to put a link to his
Twitter handle in the description of the
video. Now, Mr. Etzioni and others are
observing that the major tech giants
-- pretty much all of them: Amazon, Google,
Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft-- they're all
totally reorienting their cloud services
businesses to AI driven services, much
like IBM's Watson. Each of these tech
giants has plans for an AI as a service
platform where companies or individuals
--maybe people like you-- will send things
like images and videos through the AI
platforms of these tech firms so that
their AI cloud services can do things
with that data for you. But there is a
talent problem. Deep neural networking
is a really different way of building
computer services. So, rather than
programming the software to behave
in a particular way, engineers need to
do more coaxing of results from tons and
tons of data. What people on the
inside are saying is that AI developers
need to think of themselves more as data
coaches than a programmer.
Google, for example, in their internal
class on Deep Learning for Googlers,
titled this class The Art of Deep
Learning. In a short, AI developers
are in high demand and short supply
but, lucky for us, Google recently
released its three-month AI course for
free on Udacity because you gotta love
Google. I'll put a link to that
course in the description of the video.
Next week, in part 2 of this update,
we're going to meet two of the most
powerful people in Artificial
Intelligence and they happen to be women.
I'll see you next Friday at 10 a.m.
Pacific Time for another Brain Boost and,
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