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30 Black Friday Deals on Amazon Devices (2022): Kindle, Echo, Fire TV Stick
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16 Best Black Friday Mattress Deals (2022): Bedsheets, Pillows, Blankets
We’ve found discounts on bedsheets, weighted blankets, and sound machines to help make bedtime a little sweeter.
13 Best Soundbars for Every Budget (2022): Vizio, Sonos, Samsung, Yamaha, Sony
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A simpler path to better computer vision
Research finds using a large collection of simple, un-curated synthetic image generation programs to pretrain a computer vision model for image classification yields greater accuracy than employing other pretraining methods that are more costly and time consuming, and less scalable.
LaundroGraph: Using deep learning to support anti-money laundering efforts
In recent years, deep learning techniques have proved to be highly valuable for tackling countless research and real-world problems. Researchers at Feedzai, a financial data science company based in Portugal, have demonstrated the potential of deep learning for the prevention and detection of illicit money laundering activities.
A deep learning model that generates nonverbal social behavior for robots
Researchers at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in Korea have recently developed a deep learning-based model that could help to produce engaging nonverbal social behaviors, such as hugging or shaking someone’s hand, in robots. Their model, presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv, can actively learn new context-appropriate social behaviors by observing interactions …
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Mimicking human sleep as a way to prevent catastrophic forgetting in AI systems
A trio of researchers from the University of California, working with a colleague from the Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences, has found that it is possible to prevent catastrophic forgetting in AI systems by having such systems mimic human REM sleep.
Report: 72% of U.S. workers want to delegate mundane tasks to AI
72% of U.S. employees say they’d like to delegate mundane tasks like invoice management, auditing and simple reporting to AI so they can focus on tasks that help them grow at work.Read More
How AI iteration can uplevel the customer experience
With AI, ML and bots, we should be spending 80% of our attention deploying what we already have and only 20% of our time on the prototypes.Read More