Image Vector Representation for Machine Learning Using OpenCV

One of the pre-processing steps that are often carried out on images before feeding them into a machine learning algorithm is to convert them into a feature vector. As we will see in this tutorial, there are several advantages to converting an image into a feature vector that makes the latter more efficient.  Among the …

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Q-Star: OpenAI’s Exploration of Q-Learning in Pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) This article is based on a Reuters news article from 2023-11-22 titled OpenAI Researchers Warned Board of AI Breakthrough Ahead of CEO Ouster Q-learning, a cornerstone in artificial intelligence, is integral to reinforcement learning. This model-free algorithm aims to discern the value of …

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Generative AI in Financial Services: How Banks Are Using It to Boost Engagement

The ongoing uncertainty in the economy has put particular strain on financial institutions such as banks and investment firms. Times are challenging especially for those operating in the traditional, brick-and-mortar side of the banking and insurance businesses. But there are digitally-enabled strategies that equip financial institutions to optimize customer relationships and gain traction, even during …

Hardware-Accelerated AI for Windows Apps Using ONNX RT

Sponsored Content   By Rajan Mistry Sr. Applications Engineer with the Qualcomm Developer Network Today, you can’t help but read the media headlines about AI and the growing sophistication of generative AI models like Stable Diffusion. A great example of a use case for generative AI on Windows is Microsoft 365 Copilot. This AI assistant can …

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Improving simulations of clouds and their effects on climate

Posted by Tapio Schneider, Visiting Researcher, and Yi-fan Chen, Engineering Lead, Google Research Today’s climate models successfully capture broad global warming trends. However, because of uncertainties about processes that are small in scale yet globally important, such as clouds and ocean turbulence, these models’ predictions of upcoming climate changes are not very accurate in detail. …

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Building with Palantir AIP: Semantic Search

https://medium.com/media/0254ccf83cea026c178db2df184c0d42/href By Chad Wahlquist, Palantir Forward Deployed Architect Welcome! This is the first “cooking show”-style video in the Building with Palantir AIP series, where Palantir engineers and architects will take you through how to build end-to-end workflows using Palantir’s AI Platform. This first installment demonstrates how AIP enables developers to go from unstructured data to …

Winning the cloud game: Phoning the right friend to answer the cloud optimization question

Cloud optimization is essential as organizations look to accelerate business outcomes and unlock the value of their data. At its core, cloud optimization is the process of correctly selecting and assigning the right resources to a workload or application. But cloud optimization is also a lifecycle process that balances performance, compliance and cost to achieve efficiency. …