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Ask Tomáš Mikolov a Question via the Neuron FoundationArchive 2020
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Ask Tomáš Mikolov a Question via the Neuron Foundation

The Neuron Foundation now allows you to ask legendary Tomáš Mikolov questions on their Facebook page. Tomáš will then answer them in a summary article. An ideal opportunity to ask...

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Have you ever heard of http://ai-writer.com/?Archive 2020
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Have you ever heard of http://ai-writer.com/?

It's an AI writer that can craft a tailored article for you in just a few minutes. This isn't new to me, but I was surprised that…

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In the Czech Artificial Intelligence Competition AI Awards, the Digital Philosopher Scores!Archive 2020
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In the Czech Artificial Intelligence Competition AI Awards, the Digital Philosopher Scores!

Today, you can find the results of the prestigious AI Awards. Our Digital Philosopher is named Idea of the Year! “The project was a collaboration between the Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University and a Prague company…

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Have you heard about the conversational agent, or chatbot, named Meena?Archive 2020
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Have you heard about the conversational agent, or chatbot, named Meena?

At the end of January, Google AI introduced it. It is a robust model with 2.6 billion parameters. The model's architecture is based on 13 decoding...

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Schools, galleries, and theatres are closing: Do you still want to experience something extraordinary? Become part of the Digital Writer project!Archive 2020
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Schools, galleries, and theatres are closing: Do you still want to experience something extraordinary? Become part of the Digital Writer project!

We are launching an innovative experiment where people and artificial intelligence write a book together. We are just getting started. Join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/312579806364839/

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The Expert Team Will Address the Issues of Research, Development, and the Impacts of Artificial Intelligence Utilisation in the Czech RepublicArchive 2020
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The Expert Team Will Address the Issues of Research, Development, and the Impacts of Artificial Intelligence Utilisation in the Czech Republic

The Czech Republic, as one of the first countries in the EU, has established a specialised expert platform and forum focusing on the regulation of artificial intelligence. The modern format of the so-called Observatory...

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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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Will the World Be Flooded with Living Robots Made from Frog Embryos?Archive 2020
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Will the World Be Flooded with Living Robots Made from Frog Embryos?

Scientists in the USA have announced that they have created the world's first living robots using stem cells from frog embryos. https://www.novinky.cz/…/vedci-stvorili-prvniho-ziveho-robo…

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Do You Know the Czech Project OLS?Archive 2019
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Do You Know the Czech Project OLS?

Today I noticed a trio of articles by Mr Miroslav Pivoda, and I must say, I have never read anything quite like it! Thirty years ago, when machine…

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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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In Images: Digital Philosopher 2019Archive 2019
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In Images: Digital Philosopher 2019

14,000 days ago, Bill Gates introduced the MS-DOS operating system, 3,303 days ago Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad, and today Alpha Industries presented a digital human with students from the Faculty of Philosophy…

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Meeting of Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy Enthusiasts – the Digital Philosopher is Already at the Door!Archive 2019
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Meeting of Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy Enthusiasts – the Digital Philosopher is Already at the Door!

The planned agenda includes lectures and a debate with students. It will be a unique opportunity to pose questions to many thinkers who are long gone. The concluding discussion should also be interesting…

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“True AI should understand the relationship between cause and effect,” says Judea Pearl, a pioneer in artificial intelligence.Archive 2019
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“True AI should understand the relationship between cause and effect,” says Judea Pearl, a pioneer in artificial intelligence.

Let’s teach machines to understand the question “Why?”. While in the 1980s we created programmes that primarily calculated probabilities (for example, Bayesian networks), this is no longer sufficient….

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Karen Hao analysed nearly 17,000 studies on artificial intelligence and wrote an article on where he believes AI is headingArchive 2019
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Karen Hao analysed nearly 17,000 studies on artificial intelligence and wrote an article on where he believes AI is heading

• The biggest shift was the transition from expert systems (knowledge-based systems) to machine learning in the early 2000s. The word “logic” is increasingly less used in research…

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New AI Clones Your Voice from Just 5 Seconds of Audio Recording!Archive 2019
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New AI Clones Your Voice from Just 5 Seconds of Audio Recording!

New research introduces us to AI that converts text to speech (TTS). The algorithm is traditionally based on a neural network. Upon closer inspection, it consists of 3 main components…

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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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Navigate the Terms of Deep Learning!Archive 2019
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Navigate the Terms of Deep Learning!

Navigating the jungle of deep learning isn't always straightforward. Recently, I came across an interesting glossary that could assist beginners in getting a rough orientation. After all, take a look...

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They Trained Neural Networks to 'Read Thoughts' in Real TimeArchive 2019
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They Trained Neural Networks to 'Read Thoughts' in Real Time

As part of the NeuroNet NTI Assistive Neurotechnology project, employees from the Neurobotics Group of Companies and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology trained neural networks to...

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Facebook Quietly Releases a New Version of the PyTorch Library, Featuring Several Amazing Enhancements!Archive 2019
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Facebook Quietly Releases a New Version of the PyTorch Library, Featuring Several Amazing Enhancements!

AI developers, particularly those working with images, are in for a treat. This library competes for their attention primarily with TensorFlow. At the beginning of the year, the number of articles citing it increased by nearly 200%...

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Czech Companies Plan More Investments in Artificial Intelligence. What Do They Hope to Achieve?Archive 2019
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Czech Companies Plan More Investments in Artificial Intelligence. What Do They Hope to Achieve?

More than 60% of Czech companies plan investments in artificial intelligence and its future applications across various fields, as revealed by a brief study by EY and the Chamber of Commerce of the Czech Republic…

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The Launch of 'Digital Philosophy' and Its First TasksArchive 2019
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The Launch of 'Digital Philosophy' and Its First Tasks

The first session of 'Digital Philosophy' is behind us, and with it came a voluntary task: to take a look at Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy. I took it upon myself…

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Twelve Ideas from Sophia Martin for Developing a Smart AppArchive 2019
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Twelve Ideas from Sophia Martin for Developing a Smart App

Are you looking to embark on the development of a smart mobile application but lack an idea? Sophia Martin presents twelve ideas she sees as promising. Whether it's a healthcare app or a story reader that narrates books like a professional storyteller – there are always plenty of ideas.

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Event: Digital Philosopher 2019Archive 2019
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Event: Digital Philosopher 2019

Come and see the presentations of results from the students of the Faculty of Philosophy. In two months, they must create a digital philosopher using artificial intelligence and pose the right questions to him…

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