Chessmasters praise AlphaZero AI games and says it has an aggressive playing style

Chess players have analyzed the games that AlphaZero played against the Stockfish program and found many innovative moves and tactics. Chessbase has an analysis that discusses the quality of its games and its playing style. AlphaZero uses Monte Carlo tree search but has a combined policy and value network for evaluating moves. Previously AlphaGo had …

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Landing.Ai will use AI to transform manufacturing starting with Foxconn

Andrew Ng, who helped start the Google Brain project and previously served as the head of Baidu’s AI efforts, announced Landing.ai, a company aimed at helping businesses in the manufacturing sector transform themselves into AI companies. Ng picked manufacturing because it has a number of problems that machine learning techniques can help with, and AI …

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Cracking General Intelligence for competitive advantage leveraging hundreds of billions in research over next few years

In 2017,companies globally have completed around $21.3 billion in mergers and acquisitions related to AI, according to PitchBook, a data provider, or around 26 times more than in 2015. Alphabet (Google’s parent), Amazon, Apple, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent are all making large investments in to Artificial Intelligence. Alphabet is widely perceived to be …

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NASA will have big Kepler AI assisted discovery announced on Thursday

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Thursday, Dec. 14, to announce the latest discovery made by its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope. The discovery was made by researchers using machine learning from Google. Machine learning is an approach to artificial intelligence, and demonstrates new ways of analyzing Kepler data. The briefing participants …

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Scaling Deep Learning until systems reach human level performance or better

BAIDU results indicate that in many real world contexts, simply scaling your training data set and models is likely to predictably improve the model’s accuracy. This predictable behavior may help practitioners and researchers approach debugging and target better accuracy scaling. On the extreme other end, @BaiduResearch's thorough analysis on scaling properties of neural networks would …

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AI AlphaGo Zero started from scratch to become best at Chess, Go and Japanese Chess within hours

The AlphaZero program developed by Google and DeepMind took four hours of playing against itself to create chess knowledge beyond any human or other computer program. It could beat any person and beat the best World Computer Champion Stockfish 28 wins to 0 in a 100-game match. Starting from random play, and given no domain …

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IBM demonstrates 10x faster large-scale machine learning

Together with EPFL scientists, our IBM Research team has developed a scheme for training big data sets quickly. It can process a 30 Gigabyte training dataset in less than one minute using a single graphics processing unit (GPU) — a 10x speedup over existing methods for limited memory training. The results, which efficiently utilize the …

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Google’s Eric Schmidt says US could lose lead in AI and Basic Science Research to China

Artificial intelligence is the new frontier, and the Defense Department must invest in this breakthrough or be in danger of not being competitive in the future, said Eric Schmidt, the chairman of the Defense Innovation Board, during a discussion at the Center for a New American Security today. Schmidt spoke about the Chinese AI program. …

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