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Emotion Detector or How We Defeated IBM

Time and Space: 26.2.2019, 18:00 – VŠE Žižkov, SB 321 Is artificial intelligence and virtual assistants still a distant future? We invited Honza Tyl to prove otherwise...

I bring bad news. We have improved the Czech and English emotion detector!

We have modernised the algorithms, so you can now see which words the neural network places greater weight on (the AI attention button in the bottom right). We also used much larger and more diverse datasets for training...

Is this your machine for machine learning?

Yes! You throw your data onto this great heap of linear algebra, and then answers pop out the other side. What if those answers are wrong?…

Myths about Data Science Debunked!

Becoming a data scientist is complex. Not only do you need to learn mathematics, statistics, and programming, but you also have to constantly battle the myths you hear around you…

Artificial Intelligence Manipulates Us. We Are Unable to Understand Why Neural Networks Decide as They Do, Says Professor Pěchouček

Professor Michal Pěchouček established the CTU Centre for Artificial Intelligence 18 years ago. Today, he is surrounded by more than a hundred experts, and that number will grow. Last year, he began...

Support for Artificial Intelligence Research Has Doubled. Schools Are the Biggest Beneficiaries

Support for artificial intelligence research has doubled. Schools are the biggest beneficiaries. We informed you about this and other interesting facts about Czech AI last year. Now...

Czech Scientists Build the Car of the Future. It Drives on the Road, but the Steering Wheel is Controlled from the Office

In addition to cars that will drive themselves, the future also belongs to vehicles and machines controlled remotely. Czech scientists are working on it. In Brno...

Chinese Artificial Intelligence Will Become a Tool for the Oppression of People, Warns Soros

Chinese artificial intelligence will become a tool for the oppression of people, warns Soros – the American billionaire. The American billionaire, philanthropist, and lobbyist George Soros has accused China and its…

How Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Our Roads? A Group of Students Translates Theory into Practice

A group of American students uses TensorFlow and a camera to identify various road damages, such as cracks and potholes. The aim was to teach the programme to quickly locate road damage from footage captured by a camera mounted on the car's bonnet...

The End of Politicians' Lies? Artificial Intelligence Will Soon Be Able to Verify Their Statements in Real Time

Scientists from Duke University have created a tool that could find application, for instance, in the American presidential elections in 2020. It should be able to...

Czech Republic Aims to Break Through in Europe with Artificial Intelligence. Prague Generates Five Times More Experts than Key Montreal, Says Expert

At CTU, they are also developing robotic technology that will transport cars from the production line and park them autonomously at Škoda's factories. And the American corporation IBM...

Unsupervised MT - Machine Learning Without a Teacher

It is still more of a concept, with relatively weak results, but I am surprised that it works at all. Let’s take a look at machine translation. Traditionally…

Publications on Machine Learning and NLP Written in 2018

In this article, you will find a number of statistical graphs regarding what has been published in this field, in which journals, how much each author has published, and so on.

Certificate – Applied Machine Learning For Healthcare

After a recent certificate from MIT – CITI 'Data Only or Specimens Only Research' – which was truly a luxurious training, I completed another one today. This time…

Research into the Potential Development of Artificial Intelligence in the Czech Republic Highlights Possible Issues

On 17th December, the Government Office published four reports from the study Research into the Potential Development of Artificial Intelligence in the Czech Republic, including a summary report. The study was prepared by a team from the Technology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CTU, and the Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

With Sound, the Famous Video Featuring Reinforcement Learning Looks Completely Different :-)

Did you know that AI Christmas arrived 12 days early?

My favourite instructor on Udemy is launching a royal course: Artificial Intelligence – MASTERCLASS. Are you interested in artificial intelligence? Do you want to build the most powerful AI model developed to date…

NVIDIA's AI Rendered an Entire City in Unreal Engine 4

The images and video in this article were created by artificial intelligence solely based on its own interpretation derived from real video footage, so it is essentially its...

Artificial Intelligence Created at a Catholic School Dresses Naked Girls in Bikinis

Researchers from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro have developed software that scans risqué photographs of women and overlays bikinis on intimate areas. The scientists presented the tool…

Machine Learning is Not Just Statistics

We are increasingly hearing that ML is just a 'sexy' name for old statistical techniques. This article aims to prove that this is not the case. On one hand, there are…

Students from ČVUT Finished Second in the Competition for Conversational Artificial Intelligence

A team of students from Prague's ČVUT – Alquist – has secured second place for the second time in the prestigious Alexa Prize competition for the best conversational artificial intelligence, organised by…

The Trend Among the Best-Rated Theses is Artificial Intelligence!

The ninth edition of the elite student competition IT SPY, which selects the most interesting and innovative IT theses from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, has announced its finalists. The academic jury…

Thanks, Vašek! Proof that artificial intelligence is slowly but surely coming to secondary schools in the Czech Republic.

After the introductory lecture, simple school projects will follow. Which secondary school will be next to join the AI movement? https://www.spsejecna.cz/akce/1667

Have You Heard of RPA (Robotic Process Automation)?

It is a relatively new technology for automating business processes using software robots or artificial intelligence. To be honest, rather than advanced AI, it reminds me more of automated testing in a production environment.