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Learning Under Supervision (Semi-Supervised Learning)Archive 2021
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Learning Under Supervision (Semi-Supervised Learning)

Traditional machine learning (ML) divides the universe into algorithms that learn with a teacher (‘supervised learning’) and without a teacher (‘unsupervised learning’), but as is often the case…

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A New Champion on the Scene?Archive 2021
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A New Champion on the Scene?

The Switch Transformer language model from Google is nearly six times larger than GPT-3! The Switch Transformer has 9 times more parameters, totalling 1.6 trillion. Google has optimised…

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New 'Colab Pro' Layer from GoogleArchive 2020
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New 'Colab Pro' Layer from Google

Google Colab is an exceptionally useful tool for AI enthusiasts who enjoy working online. This week, Google quietly introduced a paid layer, 'Colab Pro'…

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Google Teaches Artificial Intelligence to Predict the WeatherArchive 2020
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Google Teaches Artificial Intelligence to Predict the Weather

It can generate highly accurate precipitation forecasts up to six hours in advance with a resolution of one kilometre in just a few minutes of computation. This is much…

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Outputs from AI Explored at the NeurIPS Conference. What Did It Conclude?Archive 2019
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Outputs from AI Explored at the NeurIPS Conference. What Did It Conclude?

Recently, the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference took place in Vancouver, Canada, gathering over 13,000 scientists from various fields….

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Another Course CompletedArchive 2019
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Another Course Completed

I have just completed the course ‘Learn BERT – the most powerful NLP algorithm by Google’. It is an advanced course that introduces…

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How Would You Like a Real-Time Translation That Preserves the Colour of Voice?Archive 2019
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How Would You Like a Real-Time Translation That Preserves the Colour of Voice?

Google's AI results are not perfect yet, but there's much to look forward to. Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613559/google-ai-language-translation/?fbclid=IwAR2yZPZ8MBeI26x54UkxS8VnHtmL2BotsWw8L9ycOrBx8V4Imc5EpYI4rb0

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What’s the Deal with Google’s Quantum Supremacy?Archive 2019
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What’s the Deal with Google’s Quantum Supremacy?

Google is an amazing company that comes up with many interesting things. I have no doubt about that. This time, quite a few people asked me what I think about…

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Will China be a Leader in AI in a Few Years?Archive 2019
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Will China be a Leader in AI in a Few Years?

A few months ago, we wrote here about the book AI Superpowers by IT guru Kai-Fu Lee. Now, an article is being published in 'Česká pozice' that simply summarises the book…

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I Completed Another AI Certification :)Archive 2019
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I Completed Another AI Certification :)

It was the final course on TensorFlow from Google – time series modelling. It began, as usual, with data preparation. This was followed by RNNs and 1D Conv and similar algorithms….

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Google's Cloud Neural Network WaveNet Can Now Speak Czech and Slovak!Archive 2019
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Google's Cloud Neural Network WaveNet Can Now Speak Czech and Slovak!

It is the same network that should be able to make smacking sounds, pant, and above all, synthesise the human voice more effectively and authentically. You can try it for free…

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CTK Receives Grant from Google for AI Development in Text Generation!Archive 2019
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CTK Receives Grant from Google for AI Development in Text Generation!

Texts are created based on data and prepared templates. The planned system will also assign photographs to them. For CTK, this is reportedly the first project with…

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Interview with Vojtěch Dlouhý from FeedyouArchive 2019
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Interview with Vojtěch Dlouhý from Feedyou

Read an inspiring interview about the implementation of a chatbot from the Pardubice startup Feedyou, which has been intensely engaged in this field for several years, having completed over…

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How Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Our Roads? A Group of Students Translates Theory into PracticeArchive 2019
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How Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Our Roads? A Group of Students Translates Theory into Practice

A group of American students uses TensorFlow and a camera to identify various road damages, such as cracks and potholes. The aim was to teach the programme to quickly locate road damage from footage captured by a camera mounted on the car's bonnet...

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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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He Taught Google to Translate, Now He Works on Artificial Intelligence for FacebookArchive 2019
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He Taught Google to Translate, Now He Works on Artificial Intelligence for Facebook

Another intriguing interview with Tomáš Mikulov. Tomáš shares the same sentiment as I do regarding the fact that most scientific papers are somewhat 'exaggerated'. But he also writes about how marketing influences AI...

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Auto-Keras and AutoMLArchive 2019
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Auto-Keras and AutoML

Google introduces Neural Architecture Search, abbreviated as NAS. NAS is essentially an algorithm that searches for the most optimal neural network to perform a specific task for your particular dataset.

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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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Intel this week unveiled the Neural Compute Stick 2 with VPU (Vision Processing Unit) for artificial intelligenceArchive 2018
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Intel this week unveiled the Neural Compute Stick 2 with VPU (Vision Processing Unit) for artificial intelligence

The Intel NCS 2 is suitable for testing deep neural networks, tuning them, and creating prototypes of the resulting devices. As you can see in the photo, it offers…

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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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Google Mocks Failed Photos. It Won't Happen to Them!Archive 2018
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Google Mocks Failed Photos. It Won't Happen to Them!

Anyone with a keen interest in mobile phones has likely noticed that Google is poking fun at Apple's iPhone in its campaigns this year. This time, it's a practical matter – how to avoid failed photos. The phone takes numerous shots, and AI selects the best one. This puts an end to unflattering grimaces.

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An Interesting Interview with the Czech AI Legend – Tomáš MikolovArchive 2018
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An Interesting Interview with the Czech AI Legend – Tomáš Mikolov

For a quick introduction: Tomáš not only has 5 years of experience in Silicon Valley from Facebook, but also from Google. He has enriched NLP development with amazing...

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A Set of Seven Ethical Principles That Google Commits to Uphold in the Development of Artificial IntelligenceArchive 2018
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A Set of Seven Ethical Principles That Google Commits to Uphold in the Development of Artificial Intelligence

In early June 2018, Google CEO Sundar Pichai published a set of seven principles that Google commits to uphold in the development of artificial intelligence. It includes…

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Take a Selfie and AI Will Find Your Doppelgänger in Famous Galleries.Archive 2018
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Take a Selfie and AI Will Find Your Doppelgänger in Famous Galleries.

Artificial intelligence in action. Take a selfie, and Google will find your doppelgänger in famous galleries. When I tried it this morning, I had mixed feelings. I was…

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