Highly recommended reading - How Artifical Intelligence is Reshaping Repression Some points of note: “Around the world, AI systems are showing their potential for abetting repressive regimes and upending the relationship between citizen and state, thereby accelerating a global resurgence of authoritarianism.” AI technology, primarily in the form of facial recognition is being adopted by security forces, driven, in part, with investment from China. Zimbabwe is implementing facial recognition - this is a country that recently carried out large post-election crackdowns. ...

Interesting article - “Will AI end the Art of Lying?” Some points of note: Swarm Intelligence: the concept that more minds are greater than one is being explored with interesting results from an AI perspective ...

I recently passed Exam 70-774 - Performing Cloud Data Science with Azure Machine Learning and thought it may be helpful to provide some guidance on how best to prepare for the exam. ...

What is a Data Lake? A Data Lake is a term that gets thrown around a fair amount, often in conjunction with big data. But what does it really mean? At its core, its a central repository for storing unlimited amounts of data from many different sources that you can bring analytics to bear on top of to gain insights. ...

Blockchain technology is all the rage these days. You hear about it more and more yet what does it really do and how can you use it? ...

In 2015, Microsoft acquired Revolution Analytics. Microsoft R was a rebranding of Revolution R. Since the R landscape at Microsoft can be a bit confusing I want to try to lay it out simply. First, Microsoft R Server has been rebranded to Microsoft Machine Learning Server. At the time of writing, ML Server 9.2 was available. So, what are the different ways to use R from Microsoft? ...

I have recently started to work on a set of introductory videos focusing on deep learning and neural networks. The goal of these videos is to explain some of the basic concepts behind various types of neural networks and then give you a hands-on example to show you how you can build your own neural network. I showcase a variety of frameworks such as Keras, CNTK and Tensorflow. I also use a variety of tools from Jupyter Notebooks through to Azure Machine Learning Workbench. I will continue to add more videos over time. You can check out the full collection here. ...

Below I have highlighted some of the commonly used, open source, machine learning frameworks you will find in use today. ...

Sometimes you come across something that just blows you away. I had this experience recently with the Program Synthesis by Example functionality in the newly release Azure Machine Learning Workbench. ...