machine learning
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ACS Puts Spotlight On AI Challenges
A panel hosted by the Australian Computer Society (ACS), featuring Liz Bacon (a past President British Computer Society), Marita Cheng (Founder/CEO of Aubot and winner of Young Australian of the Year), Mike Hinchey (from the International Federation for Information Processing) and Anthony Wong (current President of the ACS) discussed what AI is and how it…
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Moving From Data Collection To Decisions and Predictions
At last week’s SplunkLive! event, the company’s global field leader for IT markets, Johnathon Cervelli opened the event, saying the company has continued to grow their business with a focus on more than security analytics although this continues to be an area the company is working on. Cervelli says companies are using data, not just…
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Conspiracy Bot Shows That Computers Can Be As Gullible As Humans
Computers believe in conspiracy theories now. The New Inquiry‘s Francis Tseng trained a bot to recognise patterns in photos and draw links between similar pictures, forming the kind of conspiracy-theory diagram seen in the last act of a Homeland episode or the front page of Reddit. It’s a cute trick that reminds us that humans…
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Briefly: Microsoft Surface Studio Review, Dying Japan, Alien Star
Brief news items of note for Lifehacker readers, including: Microsoft Surface Studio Australian review, the latest developments from Tabby’s Star, Japan’s fertility woes.