The Challenge of Forex Trading for Machine Learning
Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence that has grabbed a lot of headlines previously. People are fascinated by the concept of machines seemingly ‘thinking’, and learning how to carry out tasks more...
Embedding Cyber Trust Into The Black Box
One of the shared issues in the fields of both information security and artificial intelligence (AI) is the need to make an explanation to the end user with the objective of gaining trust. Trust is...
AI & Creativity: BigGAN as a creative engine
Truly, the year 2018 can be seen as the beginning of the creativity heyday made with/by Artificial Intelligence. Sure, the whole story begun earlier, Google Deep Dream was already a continuation of human attempts to use a machine for...
Ready or not, the revolution is upon us
"We must develop a comprehensive global shared view of how technology is affecting our lives and reshaping the economic and social environments." Emboldened by the challenge, Nazareen Ebrahim is ready to answer the call to...
Machine Learning in Finance
Before we cover some Machine Learning finance applications, let’s first understand what Machine Learning is. Machine Learning (ML) is a part of data science that uses different models to analyze data and make predictions. The cool thing...
How The Rise of Conversational AI Will Impact The World
From different professional services, insurance, education, finance, travel, telecom, to construction, banking, and business, AI has caused a stir across sectors. As we can see in today's world, many businesses have been trying to...
AI animates marketing returns
Known as The Computer Guy, Joseph Ngare once dreamed of being a sports commentator. Now his thoughts have turned to another sort of sport: artificial intelligence. He sees brands having a choice between embarking on...
8 Skills You Need to Become a Data Scientist
Numbers do not scare you? There is nothing more satisfying than a beautiful excel sheet? You speak several languages, but only in code? Then it might be time for you to explore how to become...
The Artificial Intelligence 8 Billion Dataset Ecosystem
In about 5 years from now, 2024, the world population is expected to be around 8 billion. Now, not all of that 8 billion will be using natural language processing (NLP)-enabled services, but this...
Application of Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS)
Monitoring Labour and Productivity through A.I. What is RTLS? RTLS can determine the location of a medium in real time, monitor and analyse movement in a designated location, and carry voice and data communications. It has great potential on...
Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading
When a friend of yours uploads your new beach-body photo on Facebook and the platform suggests to tag your face, it is not because Mark Zuckerberg is secretly stalking you and knows your name....
AI & Creativity: Deep Dream comes true
Artificial Intelligence always fascinated me. Not only as a useful set of tools, continuously evolving, but also as an experiment field. Some years ago, as Neural Network-based solutions popped up everywhere, it was a breakthrough. A...
Deep Learning Explained in 7 Steps
Self-driving cars, Alexa, medical imaging - gadgets are getting super smart around us with the help of deep learning. But why does deep learning work? Why does Alexa recognize me and how can a car...
Wearing Multiple Glasses in Tech
Today's issues of technology can be discussed from several perspectives. Although philosophy is not a common approach to discuss technological issues, some principles from this field might work well when it comes to evaluating...
Thinking Differently About A.I.
The field of AI (artificial intelligence) has witnessed significant successes in terms of solving well-defined problems. Yet, so far, no step seems to have been taken towards the direction of creative problem-solving. It is often...
Using AI As A Weapon Against Disinformation
Given the stress that today's democracy is exposed to, technology is referred to as being a scapegoat due to the rising information disorder which is seen being a cause of this stress, globally. Not...
How to make AI Flourish?
Given the proliferation of various AI-related technologies into our lives, -ranging from smart robots to machine learning- our past disbelief in software being able to automate things that were definitely within the area of expertise...
Fairness Through Awareness
Several decisions in our lives, ranging from the determination of insurance rates to the provision of health care, occur through the reliance of information systems on statistical inference and learning. Given the increasing use...
Data Driven Statistics, Trends & Facts 2018
The most challenging part for me personally when writing a blog is to find the relevant data driven statistics about that particular topic. Often it takes a considerable amount of time to figure out...
Interpreting Machine Leaning Models: A Myth or Reality?
Despite the predictive capabilities of supervised machine learning, can we trust the machines? As much as we want the models to be good, we also want them to be interpretable. Yet, the task of...