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What is a Neural Network and How Does It Work?
Like in a human, a neuron is the basic element of any deep learning AI, think Chat-GPT, Dalle, or our own Number Recognizer. Each of these neurons contains a specific value, allowing it to have some meaning to our model...
What is AI, Really?
Artificial Intelligence is a broad term that refers to any computer program that has human-like capabilities. For example, a chat bot is an AI program because it does a thing that...
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Adam Cheyer - Talking about Entrepreneurship and AI
Adam Cheyer is an inventor, entrepreneur, engineering executive, pioneer in AI and computer human interfaces, co-founder or founding member of five successful startups, including Siri, Change.org, Viv Labs, Sentient, and GamePlanner.AI, authored more than 60 publications and 39 patents. He graduated from UCLA School of Engineering with an “Outstanding Masters Student” award.
Erik Learned-Miller - Talking about AI in Facial Recognition, Computer Vision, and more
Erik G. Learned-Miller, MIT graduate and Professor of computer science at Umass Amherst, focusing on Computer Vision, received Microsoft-MIT graduate student fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, Mark Everingham Award, was on the editorial board of the Journal of Machine Learning Research and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference.
Thomas Dietterich - Talking about AI in Safety Engineering, Systems, and more
Thomas G. Dietterich, Stanford graduate and Professor Emeritus of computer science at Oregon State University, is a pioneer of machine learning, ex-president of AAAI and the International Machine Learning Society, cofounder of Strands, Smart Desktop, and BigML.
Deb Roy - Talking about AI in social media and more
Deb K. Roy is a Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, director of MIT Center for Constructive Communication, Co-Founded Cortico, a nonprofit aimed at amplifying underrepresented voices using deep systematic listening, co-founded X's (Twitter's) Bluefin Labs, linking TV to social media data, previously served as X's (Twitter's) Chief Media Scientist.
Thomas Davenport - Talking about AI in businesses, jobs, and more
Thomas Davenport is a Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, the co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, a Fellow of the MIT Initiative for the Digital Economy.