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Google ColaboratoryArchive 2019
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Google Colaboratory

Sometimes someone approaches me, eager to delve into AI, but lamenting their weak laptop without a graphics card. What’s not widely known is that Google…

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The AI Model GPT-2 Generated an Article About Alpha Industries! What’s the Result?Archive 2019
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The AI Model GPT-2 Generated an Article About Alpha Industries! What’s the Result?

I had the much-discussed AI model GPT-2 generate an article on the topic: “I love Alpha Industries – the best company in the world that...

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Emotion Detector or How We Defeated IBMArchive 2019
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Emotion Detector or How We Defeated IBM

Time and Space: 26.2.2019, 18:00 – VŠE Žižkov, SB 321 Is artificial intelligence and virtual assistants still a distant future? We invited Honza Tyl to prove otherwise...

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Artificial Intelligence Surprises in Debate CompetitionArchive 2019
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Artificial Intelligence Surprises in Debate Competition

The AI project Debater from IBM recently faced off against a world debate champion.

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The End of Politicians' Lies? Artificial Intelligence Will Soon Be Able to Verify Their Statements in Real TimeArchive 2019
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The End of Politicians' Lies? Artificial Intelligence Will Soon Be Able to Verify Their Statements in Real Time

Scientists from Duke University have created a tool that could find application, for instance, in the American presidential elections in 2020. It should be able to...

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Emotion Detector in SocietyArchive 2019
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Emotion Detector in Society

It has been exactly 14 days since we asked you which public figure or well-known brand we should assess emotions in the public space. According to…

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Gamers Unknowingly Helped China Build a Supermodern Police System Using Artificial IntelligenceArchive 2019
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Gamers Unknowingly Helped China Build a Supermodern Police System Using Artificial Intelligence

The world today brings many surprises. Computer gamers have always demanded excellent performance from their machines and the most faithful representation of increasingly demanding games. The willingness...

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Unsupervised MT - Machine Learning Without a TeacherArchive 2019
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Unsupervised MT - Machine Learning Without a Teacher

It is still more of a concept, with relatively weak results, but I am surprised that it works at all. Let’s take a look at machine translation. Traditionally…

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Publications on Machine Learning and NLP Written in 2018Archive 2019
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Publications on Machine Learning and NLP Written in 2018

In this article, you will find a number of statistical graphs regarding what has been published in this field, in which journals, how much each author has published, and so on.

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Test Your Knowledge of NLP (Natural Language Processing)Archive 2019
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Test Your Knowledge of NLP (Natural Language Processing)

I found the quiz quite challenging. I didn't know all the answers :) Some questions were trivial, while others seemed a bit speculative. It's interesting that everyone considers something different to be important. In any case, a challenge for all NLP wizards!

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Discussion: How to Program a Chatbot for Amazon?Archive 2019
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Discussion: How to Program a Chatbot for Amazon?

We are pleased to share an invitation to this unique meeting with the creators of the Alquist chatbot, which (as you surely know) secured second place in the prestigious global competition by Amazon Alexa in 2017 and 2018. We wish them the best in the coming years!

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Chatbots create more jobs than they take. They handle boring tasks, allowing people to engage in something more creative, says the manufacturerArchive 2019
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Chatbots create more jobs than they take. They handle boring tasks, allowing people to engage in something more creative, says the manufacturer

Chatbots create more jobs than they take. They handle boring tasks, allowing people to engage in something more creative, says Viktor Kustein (32). Chatbots can save…

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I am honoured to introduce our latest project in the field of natural language processing – the emotion detector!Archive 2019
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I am honoured to introduce our latest project in the field of natural language processing – the emotion detector!

EMO – works on a similar principle to the toxic word detector, but is a bit more advanced. You type or paste text into the box and press Enter…

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By tomorrow (31.12.2018) you can compete to catch our detector of insults and toxic wordsArchive 2018
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By tomorrow (31.12.2018) you can compete to catch our detector of insults and toxic words

Tomorrow we will ceremoniously draw one of you to receive a few symbolic prizes. 😊 PS. Don't forget to leave your contact details (email, or perhaps a screenshot...)

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Košík at Christmas Minimises Food Waste Thanks to Artificial IntelligenceArchive 2018
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Košík at Christmas Minimises Food Waste Thanks to Artificial Intelligence

The grocery e-shop Košík.cz is already testing a system in live operation this Christmas, aimed at streamlining its supply and the entire supplier-customer chain. The new platform,…

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The Dutch Have Invented a Laser Cannon Against Birds, Controlled by Artificial IntelligenceArchive 2018
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The Dutch Have Invented a Laser Cannon Against Birds, Controlled by Artificial Intelligence

The Dutch startup – Bird Control Group has created a bird deterrent that operates on the same principle as a larger laser pointer. The purpose of this invention is to protect…

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NVIDIA's AI Rendered an Entire City in Unreal Engine 4Archive 2018
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NVIDIA's AI Rendered an Entire City in Unreal Engine 4

The images and video in this article were created by artificial intelligence solely based on its own interpretation derived from real video footage, so it is essentially its...

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Artificial Intelligence Created at a Catholic School Dresses Naked Girls in BikinisArchive 2018
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Artificial Intelligence Created at a Catholic School Dresses Naked Girls in Bikinis

Researchers from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro have developed software that scans risqué photographs of women and overlays bikinis on intimate areas. The scientists presented the tool…

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Czech AI Celebrity Tomáš Mikolov on DV TV!Archive 2018
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Czech AI Celebrity Tomáš Mikolov on DV TV!

We are still a long way from AI, and perhaps we are doing it all wrong, says Tomáš. For him, artificial intelligence is a computer that can communicate like a human…

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Students from ČVUT Finished Second in the Competition for Conversational Artificial IntelligenceArchive 2018
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Students from ČVUT Finished Second in the Competition for Conversational Artificial Intelligence

A team of students from Prague's ČVUT – Alquist – has secured second place for the second time in the prestigious Alexa Prize competition for the best conversational artificial intelligence, organised by…

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Smart Cities for the Future 2018: Prague Dominated the Awards, Other Cities Experienced Remarkable GrowthArchive 2018
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Smart Cities for the Future 2018: Prague Dominated the Awards, Other Cities Experienced Remarkable Growth

In 2018, Prague dominated smart cities in the Czech Republic. Other domestic cities also recorded a rise in so-called smart solutions. Awards were presented in Prague…

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And here it is! Toxic II. = an advanced insult detector that combines the power of Deep Learning and expert systems is ready.Archive 2018
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And here it is! Toxic II. = an advanced insult detector that combines the power of Deep Learning and expert systems is ready.

The Czech language is incredibly flexible and diverse. Despite the fact that Toxic II has learned from over a hundred thousand sentences and knows nearly ten thousand...

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Friends from Posobota Release the Card Game Deploy or Die!Archive 2018
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Friends from Posobota Release the Card Game Deploy or Die!

If you enjoy creative projects, contribute to the release of version 1.0.0 of a new card game where you become a web application developer. Your goal is…

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This Week, Google Unveiled Its Latest Technological Toy – Bidirectional Encoder Representations Transformers, or BERTArchive 2018
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This Week, Google Unveiled Its Latest Technological Toy – Bidirectional Encoder Representations Transformers, or BERT

How does BERT differ from traditional NLP models like word2vec and GloVe? Word2vec and other models generate context-free word embeddings. Each word...

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