Using Google Search Trends to Predict Initial Jobless Claims
For several years now, my focus has been on using alternative data of many kinds to predict macroeconomic statistics. When ran the Futures Group for the PDT Group at Morgan Stanley in the 1990’s...
Encoder Decoder Sequences: How Long is Too Long?
In machine learning many times we deal with the input being a sequence and the output also a sequence. We call such a problem a sequence-to-sequence problem. A popular architecture for dealing with the sequence-to-sequence...
Rehumanizing Data and Analytics
I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with social media. I read what others have to say to be pissed off enough to be inspired to write in hopes of stirring up a...
Cognitive computing – a skill-set widely considered to be the most vital manifestation of...
As its users, we have grown to take technology for granted. Hardly anything these days is as commonplace and unremarkable as a personal computer that crunches numbers and enables us to read files and...
Five Data Science and Machine Learning Trends That Will Define Job Prospects in 2020
Data Science and ML have been one of the most talked-about trends in 2019 and without any surprise, they will continue to be so in 2020 as well. From shopping online, hailing rides, ordering food...
The Case for Making AI Human-Centric
Given the proliferation of AI into our socio-technological environments, we as AI researchers should also ponder on how justice system can contribute (and be used) to ensure the inclusion and the rights of marginalized...
On Robot Rights: Can Robots Be Enslaved?
Are people allowed to treat their robots anyhow they like? Can a person be “violent” to their robot? Should a robot be able to join a labour union? Can robots be subject of enslavement?...
Has General AI Exceeded the Intellectual Capacity of Humans?
Machines are outsmarting humans not only in games but also in the labor market. In many fields today, the use of pattern recognition and big-data analysis show how AI’s capacities have already exceeded those...
Is AI Technology Outpacing the Law?
New technology often presents exciting possibilities. Whether there's potential for new discoveries about our universe, or it simply makes our day-to-day lives a little easier, we’re always keen to explore it. The rise of...
How an AI-based Chatbot Can Help You Form Better Long-Term Habits
When we think about our everyday behaviors, we often do not realize, how big is the percentage of the actions we do each day automatically. The reason: we're "hooked" by unconscious actions that deeply connect...
What’s the Difference Between AI and Machine Learning?
There is a lot of excitement behind these two topics, so this serves as a quick guide on what they are and what’s the difference. Artificial Intelligence The term Artificial Intelligence was coined by John McCarthy,...
Deep learning Gamification and Artificial Intelligence as a modern learning tool; or an agent...
Science and technology are on a fast track towards the elusive embodiment on the infinite horizon- destination, painted with the idealistic resemblance coating the edge of a deep cliff. Over-idealized technocracy is evolving the...
The Math in ML: Cosine Similarity
In Machine Learning, we frequently express the similarity between two vectors as cosine similarity. What exactly does that mean? What has ‘cosine’ got to do with similarity? Well, there is Math in ML and cosine...
AI Art in Korea: ‘Commune with…’
On October 31, 2019, Korea’s first AI art gallery had a special session where hyperrealism artist Doomin and founder of an AI art startup Pulse9 Jieun Park discussed the ‘Commune with…’ project. It is...
The Anatomy of Self-Driving Cars
Modern cars have been around for over a century, and are fundamental to our daily lives. Despite the duration of time that cars have been around, we have always had to be proficient in...
Robotic Agents and Human Principals
Development of science and technologies are anticipated to lead to the emergence of artificial cognition and robots with technical and cognitive capabilities of human beings. Future workforces shall be able to compute faster, work...
Thinking in Algorithms: Computer or Mathematics?
The concept of computation has mostly been related to mathematical thinking in the past century. Yet, can we count computer science (CS) as a mathematical science at all? Before answering this question, it might...
Sensory Marketing with AI: A New Way to Stimulate Senses
Did you know according to research visual appearance is the key deciding factor for making purchasing decisions for 93% of consumers? Every feature of your website presentation leaves an impact on the viewers. In...
Predicting Weather and Restoring Maps Using Deep Learning
Predicting the weather is a difficult task that involves statistics and data processing. Nowadays, in weather forecast, Machine Learning plays a crucial role. However, it is in numerical models where ML is more used. This...
How does a Machine Learn?
This article is for tech enthusiasts’ who are always inquisitive. I will give an introduction on Machine Learning, starting with a brief introduction about the concept of Machine Learning and then dive into how...