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Enthusiasm and Concerns about Artificial IntelligenceArchive 2019
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Enthusiasm and Concerns about Artificial Intelligence

Editors of the scientific editorial office of Czech Radio focused on artificial intelligence and the issues it brings. Here you will find sections on ethics, artificial intelligence in...

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The Latest Artificial Intelligence Model for Natural Language Processing – ALBERT!Archive 2019
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The Latest Artificial Intelligence Model for Natural Language Processing – ALBERT!

Among the top artificial intelligence models for natural language processing (Bert, Robert, GPT-2, or Megatron), a new player ALBERT joined the ranks last week! ALBERT is brought to us by…

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Czech Business Does Not Trust Artificial Intelligence. Why Has It Chosen a Wait-and-See Tactic?Archive 2019
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Czech Business Does Not Trust Artificial Intelligence. Why Has It Chosen a Wait-and-See Tactic?

An article inspired by Microsoft’s research titled “Czech Business Does Not Trust Artificial Intelligence. Why Has It Chosen a Wait-and-See Tactic?” is now appearing in Forbes and myBIZ. In accordance with...

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Are you interested in the future of medicine and want to meet us in person? Come to FutureMED!Archive 2019
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Are you interested in the future of medicine and want to meet us in person? Come to FutureMED!

At the FutureMED conference in Olomouc, there will be three speakers from Alpha Industries. You will learn about the news and trends shaping the world of medicine, and you'll get acquainted with…

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A New AI Hype Cycle from Gartner is OutArchive 2019
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A New AI Hype Cycle from Gartner is Out

According to Gartner, the number of companies that have implemented AI has increased from 4% to 14% in the past year! Both proprietary ML solutions and…

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Hackathon of Public Administration ver. 3.0Archive 2019
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Hackathon of Public Administration ver. 3.0

The Supreme Audit Office, in collaboration with the Czech Telecommunications Office, is hosting an interesting event today and tomorrow! About 20 institutions will participate, providing their open data to...

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Map – Entities Working with Artificial Intelligence in the Czech RepublicArchive 2019
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Map – Entities Working with Artificial Intelligence in the Czech Republic

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has established a map that records companies and institutions engaged in the development of artificial intelligence. It is a combination of entities from the academic sphere and…

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Ladies and gentlemen, this week we are witnessing one groundbreaking step after anotherArchive 2019
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Ladies and gentlemen, this week we are witnessing one groundbreaking step after another

First, Nvidia releases the colossal Megatron (the largest model in the world, five times bigger than the largest GPT-2), to which OpenAI responds by releasing its large model with...

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Yay! Open AI has released a large model (774M parameters)Archive 2019
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Yay! Open AI has released a large model (774M parameters)

Only the final, largest one is missing! It took me about 5 minutes to get it fully operational. I asked this model to complete this sentence: 'Alpha Industries,…'

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Don't Know What Superintelligence Is? We Have a Video for You!Archive 2019
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Don't Know What Superintelligence Is? We Have a Video for You!

Do you want it explained simply and in Czech in 8 minutes? Check out the following video.

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Nvidia Announces It Has Trained the Largest Language Model in the World, GPT-2 8B!Archive 2019
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Nvidia Announces It Has Trained the Largest Language Model in the World, GPT-2 8B!

The model uses 8.3 billion parameters and is 24 times larger than BERT and 5 times larger than the previously largest GPT-2 from OpenAI. Nvidia employed parallelism that…

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Israeli Scientists Develop a New Type of Neural Network!Archive 2019
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Israeli Scientists Develop a New Type of Neural Network!

Israeli scientists from the Department of Physics at Bar-Ilan University have developed a new type of neural network that draws more inspiration from the human brain. The biological learning algorithms incorporate asynchronous…

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Microsoft invests a billion dollars in OpenAI!Archive 2019
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Microsoft invests a billion dollars in OpenAI!

We write about OpenAI quite often. Not only were we amazed by their GPT-2 model, but we also noted how the famous Elon Musk helped establish it back in 2015, although he recently departed from the company.

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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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Another Certificate from Google is Home!Archive 2019
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Another Certificate from Google is Home!

This is the third course from the TensorFlow series, and this time it was about natural language processing – my area of expertise. For me, it was more of a refresher, but I appreciate...

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Elon Musk drew inspiration from sci-fi books; after the chip is introduced, you can read thoughts or insert them!Archive 2019
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Elon Musk drew inspiration from sci-fi books; after the chip is introduced, you can read thoughts or insert them!

Elon Musk's company Neuralink had a presentation a few hours ago. They discussed their breakthroughs in electronics research, where instead of using a keyboard, you will use your thoughts….

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Artificial Intelligence Can Make Scientific Discoveries!Archive 2019
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Artificial Intelligence Can Make Scientific Discoveries!

In the July issue of Nature, you will read about how scientists from the American Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory used a simple Word2Vec algorithm to analyse a large number of...

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AI Pluribus Defeats Five Live Professional Poker Players!Archive 2019
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AI Pluribus Defeats Five Live Professional Poker Players!

Another AI milestone is behind us. In 1997, Deep Blue defeated the best human chess player, in 2011 the supercomputer Watson won Jeopardy, in 2015 AlphaGo beat the best player…

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DeepNude – an erotic application with neural networksArchive 2019
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DeepNude – an erotic application with neural networks

A team of programmers from Estonia decided to fulfil their teenage dream and create an application that can calculate the areas covered by clothing. The result is a revealed...

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Today I Completed Another Course Specialising in Machine Learning with TensorFlowArchive 2019
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Today I Completed Another Course Specialising in Machine Learning with TensorFlow

This time it was about advanced techniques for improving computer vision models – Convolutional Neural Networks in TensorFlow. Strategies to prevent overfitting were demonstrated, such as…

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God, they've turned against us! The robot uprising has begun.Archive 2019
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God, they've turned against us! The robot uprising has begun.

Let’s start charging the global EMP – it’s the only way to stop them! https://www.reddit.com/…/comments/c0s0xl/maybe_maybe_maybe/…

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The Third Year of the Data Science Olympics!Archive 2019
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The Third Year of the Data Science Olympics!

So, what do you think of the latest Olympics? In case anyone missed it, at the end of May, the third year of the Data Science Olympics took place...

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The First AI Academy for Secondary Schools Has Launched!Archive 2019
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The First AI Academy for Secondary Schools Has Launched!

You may have noticed that there haven't been as many articles appearing here lately. Our attention has turned to creating the first AI Academy and…

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Another Certificate for the Collection: Introduction to TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning.Archive 2019
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Another Certificate for the Collection: Introduction to TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning.

This time it was quite easy. Nicely designed to create simple networks using TensorFlow. I like the idea of using the Colaboratory environment. Given that the course is…

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