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Has Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) been upstaged?

August 20, 2019August 20, 2019 by Alternative Intelligence

Google’s TPU is a custom ASIC specifically designed for machine learning with the accent on TensorFlow. It’s been in use now for a couple of years and has also been powering RankBrain, … Read more

Brunel’s legacy deciphered.

August 19, 2019August 19, 2019 by Alternative Intelligence

Isombard Kingdom Brunel, one of the most ingenious and prolific engineers in history, famous for railway lines, tunnels, bridges, docks and ships was infamous for his poor handwriting. Leaving copious notes, diaries … Read more

Sensory deprivation

August 18, 2019August 17, 2019 by Alternative Intelligence

Most machine learning or AI applications will rely on input. Whether from a keyboard or more possibly from a real time sensor (for the purposes of this brief thought cloud I will … Read more

Facing up to recognition

August 16, 2019August 16, 2019 by Artificial Iconoclast

In the West we are told we live in a surveillance society. Certainly in the UK there are cameras everywhere. Formerly they were connected to tape based security recording equipment which were … Read more

AI algo used to predict ‘no show’ patients at up coming appointments.

August 16, 2019August 15, 2019 by Artificial Iconoclast

UCL London has developed an algorithm using previously gathered data from those who have had appointments for MRI scans to predict 90% of those who would not turn up for their appointment. … Read more

An alternative AI health helpline

August 14, 2019August 14, 2019 by Artificial Iconoclast

Alan Turing argued that if the machine could successfully pretend to be human to a knowledgeable observer then you certainly should consider it intelligent. With that in mind I want to explore … Read more

Plotting TensorFlow.js Activation Functions

October 24, 2019August 13, 2019 by Justin Emery

When getting started with a modern machine learning library such as TensorFlow.js, you have to become comfortable with designing Artificial Neural Network (ANN) structures. An ANN is formed from a number of … Read more

Muffins, Chihuahuas and AI

August 17, 2019July 8, 2019 by Alternative Intelligence

We have seen in the news that facial recognition has a problem differentiating between some muffins and Chihuahuas. A contending muffin could be characterised as having a sandy colour bun and three … Read more

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