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TensorFlow is an increasingly popular tool for deep learning. Robert Schroll offers an overview of the TensorFlow graph using its Python API. You'll start with simple machine learning algorithms and move on to implementing neural networks. Along the way, Robert covers several real-world deep learning applications, including machine vision, text processing, and generative networks. Read more.

Delip Rao explores natural language processing with deep learning, walking you through neural network architectures and NLP tasks and teaching you how to apply these architectures for those tasks. Read more.

Angie Ma and Jonny Howell offer a condensed introduction to key AI and machine learning concepts and techniques, showing you what is (and isn't) possible with these exciting new tools and how they can benefit your organization. Read more.

Benoit Dherin leads an introduction to designing and building machine learning models on Google Cloud Platform. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hand-ons labs, you'll learn machine learning (ML) and TensorFlow concepts and develop skills in developing, evaluating, and productionizing ML models. Read more.

Computer vision has led the artificial intelligence renaissance, and pushing it further forward is PyTorch, a flexible framework for training models. Mo Patel offers an overview of computer vision fundamentals and walks you through PyTorch code explanations for notable objection classification and object detection models. Read more.

Join Denis Batalov for an overview of the Amazon SageMaker machine learning platform. Denis walks you through setting up an Amazon SageMaker notebook (a hosted Jupyter Notebook server), using a built-in SageMaker deep learning algorithm, and building your own neural network architecture using SageMaker's prebuilt TensorFlow containers. Read more.

Melinda King walks you through the process of building a complete machine learning pipeline, from ingest and exploration to training, evaluation, deployment, and prediction. Read more.

Even as AI technologies move into common use, many enterprise decision makers remain baffled about what the different technologies actually do and how they can be integrated into their businesses. Rather than focusing on the technologies alone, Kristian Hammond provides a practical framework for understanding your role in problem solving and decision making. Read more.

Benoit Dherin explains how machine learning is applied to image classification, discusses evolving methods and challenges, and walks you through creating increasingly sophisticated image classification models using TensorFlow. Read more.

Buisnesses use forecasting to make better decisions and allocate resources more effectively. Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have achieved a lot of success in text, speech, and video analysis but are less used for time series forecasting. Join Yijing Chen, Dmitry Pechyoni, Angus Taylor, and Vanja Paunic to learn how to apply RNNs to time series forecasting. Read more.

Ion Stoica, Robert Nishihara, Richard Liaw, Eric Liang, and Philipp Moritz lead a deep dive into Ray, a new distributed execution framework for reinforcement learning applications, walking you through Ray's API and system architecture and sharing application examples, including several state-of-the art RL algorithms. Read more.

Machine learning sits at the core of many essential products and services at Facebook. Yangqing Jia and Dmytro Dzhulgakov offer an overview of the hardware and software infrastructure that supports machine learning at global scale. Read more.

TensorFlow is one of the world’s biggest open source projects, and it continues to grow in adoption and functionality. Sandeep Gupta and Edd Wilder-James share major recent developments, highlight some future directions, and explain how you can become more involved in the TensorFlow community. Read more.

Ashok Srivastava explains how to make your organization AI ready, determine the right AI applications for your business and products, and accelerate your AI efforts with speed and scale. Read more.

Nigel Toon explains how scaling IPUs will increase the productivity of machine intelligence researchers everywhere. Join in to explore what can we do and expect from the field with vastly more compute. Read more.

In recent years, there's been a quantum leap in the performance of AI, as deep learning made its mark in areas from speech recognition to machine translation and computer vision. However, as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly popular, data privacy issues also gain traction. Yishay Carmiel reviews these issues and explains how they impact the future of deep learning development. Read more.

Jonathan Hung, Keqiu Hu, and Anthony Hsu offer an overview of TensorFlow on YARN (TonY), a framework to natively run TensorFlow on Hadoop. TonY enables running TensorFlow distributed training as a new type of Hadoop application. Its native Hadoop connector, together with other features, aims to run TensorFlow jobs as reliably and flexibly as other first-class objects on Hadoop. Read more.

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With the growing buzz around data science, many professionals want to learn how to become a data scientist—the role Harvard Business Review called the "sexiest job of the 21st century." Francesca Lazzeri and Jaya Mathew explain what it takes to become a data scientist and how artificial intelligence solutions have started to reinvent businesses. Read more.

Danny Lange discusses the role of intelligence in biological evolution and learning and demonstrates why a game engine is the perfect virtual biodome for AI’s evolution. You'll discover how the scale and speed of simulations is changing the game of AI while learning about new developments in reinforcement learning. Read more.

Building machine learning models is a multistage process. TensorFlow's high-level APIs make this process smooth and easy, whether you are starting small or going big. Amit Patankar walks you through building, training, and debugging a model and then exporting it for serving using these APIs. Read more.

Deep learning works well when you have large labeled datasets, but not every team has those assets. Paco Nathan offers an overview of active learning, an ML variant that incorporates human-in-the-loop computing. Active learning focuses input from human experts, leveraging intelligence already in the system, and provides systematic ways to explore and exploit uncertainty in your data. Read more.

Alan Mosca shows how any deep learning model can be improved and made more secure with the use of targeted ensemble methods and other similar techniques and demonstrates how to use these techniques in the Toupee deep learning framework to create production-ready models. Read more.

Imagine building a model whose training data is collected on edge devices such as cell phones or sensors. Each device collects data unlike any other, and the data cannot leave the device because of privacy concerns or unreliable network access. This challenging situation is known as federated learning. Ryan Micallef discusses the algorithmic solutions and the product opportunities. Read more.

Diego Oppenheimer explains why machine learning is a natural fit for serverless computing, shares a general architecture for scalable ML, discusses issues he ran into when implementing on-demand scaling over GPU clusters at Algorithmia, and provides general solutions and a vision for the future of cloud-based ML. Read more.

Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed platform that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale. Julien Simon offers a quick overview of SageMaker. Then, using Jupyter notebooks, he dives into the more advanced features of this service. Read more.

In 2016, the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s new national institute for data science and AI, announced a funded strategic multiyear research partnership with HSBC. Christine Foster and Rakshit Kapoor share insights and use cases that emerged while making this ambitious and innovative cross-sector partnership work. Read more.

Dmytro Dzhulgakov explores PyTorch 1.0, from its start as a popular deep learning framework for flexible research to its evolution into an end-to-end platform for building and deploying AI models at production scale. Read more.

Ryan Sepassi offers an overview of Tensor2Tensor, an open source library of datasets and models and a framework for training, evaluation, and decoding, built on top of TensorFlow. Tensor2Tensor is actively used and maintained by scientists and engineers within Google Brain. Read more.

What do the world's most innovative and fastest growing companies have in common? They are in industries with a high level of VC funding. Accenture has analyzed five years of VC investment data to discover the AI use cases and technologies that are attracting the most money and will drive enterprise AI innovation. Diego Saenz explains where the top 10 investors in AI are placing big bets. Read more.

Business forecasting generally employs machine learning methods for longer and nonlinear use cases and econometrics approaches for linear trends. Pasi Helenius and Larry Orimoloye outline a hybrid approach that combines deep learning and econometrics. This method is particularly useful in areas such as competitive event (CE) forecasting (e.g., in sports events political events). Read more.

The increase in automated decision making, along with doubts in the quality of algorithmic decisions, has driven demand for transparency and accountability in AI. Rupert Steffner explains why the shift from black box to white box is a great opportunity to build AI models that create trust with the user and shares Sense-Infer-Act-Learn, a logical AI execution model to enable a more trustworthy AI. Read more.

Gaurav Kaul, Grigori Fursin, and Suneel Marthi share trade-offs and design choices that are applicable to deep learning models when training in the cloud, specifically focusing on convergence and numerical stability, which are very important for autonomous driving and medical imaging. They then demonstrate how to optimize cost, performance, and convergence using CPU spot instances in AWS. Read more.

Gary Brown explains how the use of AI in the IoT is leading to fascinating growth in various applications from industrial and medical to smart transportation and retail. Gary discusses Intel’s unique vantage point of the platforms paving the way for interesting new AI experiences. Along the way, he shares Intel’s latest IoT innovations. Read more.

Martin Goodson and Mark St. John Qualter share the results of a yearlong feasibility study on the introduction of AI into the onboarding process at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Along the way, Martin and Mark share their experiences in translating this complex business process into a high-performance computational system. Read more.

Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz details a unified network that jointly performs various mission-critical tasks in real time on a mobile environment, within the context of driving. Along the way, he outlines the challenges that emerge when training a single mobile network for multiple tasks, such as object detection, object attributes recognition, classification, and tracking. Read more.

Joshua Dillon and Wolff Dobson discuss core TensorFlow Probability (TFP) abstractions and demo some of TFP's modeling power and convenience. They also share some of the recent results from Project Magenta, a research project exploring the role of machine learning in the process of creating art and music. Read more.

Executives are being asked to "innovate with AI,” but the barriers to successful adoption for most enterprises are organizational, not technical. Mariya Yao explains why effective application of AI requires extended interdisciplinary coordination between executive and functional teams, investments in retraining your workforce, and the cultivation of an open, experimental, data-driven culture. Read more.

Andrea Pasqua investigates the merits of using deep learning and other machine learning approaches in the area of forecasting and describes some of the machine learning approaches Uber uses to forecast time series of business relevance. Read more.

Data bias is not only an AI problem; it's also a UI problem. Non-AI experts use custom application interfaces to help them make decisions based on predictions from machine learning models. These application interfaces need to be designed so that the decisions made are unbiased. Rachel Bellamy and Casey Dugan explain how to represent model predictions so that people can recognize if they are fair. Read more.

Shaoshan Liu explains how PerceptIn built the first FPGA-based computing system for autonomous driving. Read more.

Christopher Hillman explores the reasons why AI projects fail and why in some cases this is good and in others bad. Chris then explains how to avoid making the same mistakes again. Read more.

By some estimates, soon it will require eight million people doing nothing but looking at satellite imagery 24/7 in order to ensure every photo taken on a daily basis is viewed. James Crawford explains how artificial intelligence solves this problem of scale, allowing us to accurately analyze reams of satellite imagery and detect patterns of socioeconomic change in a timely fashion. Read more.

Neural networks are particularly vulnerable to adversarial inputs. Carefully designed perturbations can lead a well-trained model to misbehave, raising new concerns about safety-critical and security-critical applications. Pin-Yu Chen offers an overview of CLEVER, a comprehensive robustness measure that can be used to assess the robustness of any neural network classifiers. Read more.

Cloud AutoML is a suite of machine learning products that enables developers with limited machine learning expertise to train high-quality models specific to their business needs, leveraging Google’s state-of-the-art transfer learning and neural architecture search technology. Lucio Floretta demonstrates the power and ease of use of AutoML Vision, Translate, and Natural Language. Read more.

Daeil Kim delineates the advantages of synthetic data and explains how to avoid traps that lead to dead zones and false positives. He also reviews work on simulations for synthetic data in application verticals in which it is traditionally difficult to manually acquire significant datasets. Read more.

Gaurav Chakravorty explains how recommender systems can be utilized for investment management and details how AI and deep learning are used in trading today. Read more.

Artificial intelligence is mature enough to make substantial contributions to the legal industry. Rahul Dodhia offers an overview of an AI assistant that can perform routine tasks such as contract review and checking compliance with regulations at higher accuracy rates than legal professionals. Read more.

Machine learning and object recognition have matured to the point that exciting applications are now possible. Anmol Jagetia demonstrates how to create a Pokédex that uses a camera phone to recognize the Pokémon it's looking at in real time. You'll see how to gather data, prepare your dataset, tune models, and deploy it to a mobile device, using the same tech that is used in self-driving cars. Read more.

Many industries, including banking, financial sectors, and insurance, continuously face the problem of detecting fraudulent activities. Giorgia Fortuna explores state-of-the-art innovations in fraud detection and explains how unsupervised ML fits into the picture, focusing on signature checks and face recognition. Read more.

Fueled by the growth of messaging apps, conversational interfaces are quickly becoming an essential component of every service and product. Join Alice Zimmermann to learn how Google approaches the emerging UX challenges in its conversational agent platform. Along the way, Alice discusses the opportunities in this space and the future of conversation agents. Read more.

Kaz Sato offers an overview of ML Ops (DevOps for ML), sharing solutions and best practices for bringing ML into production service. You'll learn how to combine Apache Airflow, Kubeflow, and cloud services to build a data pipeline for continuous training and validation, version control, scalable serving, and ongoing monitoring and alerting. Read more.

Zack Akil shares pragmatic techniques and useful tools that can help you avoid common pitfalls when building ML, including tools for notebook collaboration and version control that will help prevent you and your teammates from stepping on each others' toes as well as an iterative ML model development approach that will prevent your project from stagnating. Read more.

We're experiencing an AI gold rush. Tech giants, corporations, startups, and governments are investing billions, and headlines about AI have reached fever pitch. It's dizzying to keep track of the latest AI developments and claims. Join Simon Greenman to learn who can and who will make money in this gold rush—and who will become economic casualties along the way. Read more.

Alan Nichol walks you through building fully machine learning-based voice and chatbots with the open source Rasa stack. Read more.

eLife’s mission is to accelerate discovery and encourage responsible behaviors in science. Daniel Ecer and Paul Shannon detail eLife’s journey in using NLP, computer vision, and similarity algorithms to find more diverse peer reviewers, apply semantics to archive content, automate the submission process, and find insights into the sentiment of scholarly content. Read more.

Gal Novik offers an overview of Reinforcement Learning Coach, an open source Python library that models the interaction between an agent and an environment in a modular way, making it easy for researchers to implement new reinforcement learning algorithms and for data scientists to integrate additional simulation environments modeling their business problems. Read more.

Does good technology equal a good product? Not necessarily. Instead of taking only technology into account, you may need to deep dive into the AI ecosystem and look at other players and factors. Weiyue Wu explains how such analysis can help in predicting AI implementation schedules, prioritizing corporate tasks, and allocating resources efficiently. Read more.

Mikio Braun looks back on the past 20 years of machine learning research to explore aspects of artificial intelligence. He then turns to current examples like autonomous cars and chatbots, putting together a mental model for a reference architecture for artificial intelligence systems. Read more.

TensorFlow.js is the recently released JavaScript version of TensorFlow that runs in the browser and Node.js. Daniel Smilkov and Nikhil Thorat offer an overview of the TensorFlow.js ML framework and share a demo of a complete machine learning workflow, including training, client-side deployment, and transfer learning. Read more.

Susan Etlinger explores how AI fundamentally changes the relationship between people and businesses, lays out its risks and opportunities, and demonstrates emerging best practices for designing customer-centric and ethical products and services. Read more.

Understanding user listening behavior is essential for personalizing music listening experiences on Spotify. Mounia Lalmas explains how Spotify uses machine learning recommenders that take into account what and how users consume playlists and the rich diversity of playlist experiences. Read more.

Vitaly Kuznetsov and Zelda Mariet compare sequence-to-sequence modeling to classical time series models and provide the first theoretical analysis of a framework that uses sequence-to-sequence models for time series forecasting. Read more.

Andrew Trask details the most important new techniques in secure, privacy-preserving, and multiowner governed artificial intelligence and offers a demonstration of the OpenMined project. Read more.

Multitask learning is an approach to problem solving that allows supervised algorithms to master more than one objective in parallel. Ryan Micallef shares a multitask neural net in PyTorch trained to classify news from several publications, which highlights distinct language use per publication enabled by the analysis of task-specific and agnostic representations part of multitask networks. Read more.

How can AI impact national security? Collaborating with the UK Home Office Counterterrorism Unit, ASI Data Science built a tool that removes extremist propaganda from the web. Drawing on this experience, Marc Warner discusses the role of AI in the fight against terror and explains how shared access to this technology may be part of the answer. Read more.

The availability of large idea repositories (e.g., patents) could significantly accelerate innovation and discovery by providing people inspiration from solutions to analogous problems. Dafna Shahaf presents an algorithm that automatically discovers analogies in unstructured data and demonstrates how these analogies significantly increased people's likelihood of generating creative ideas. Read more.

TensorFlow AutoGraph automatically converts plain Python code into its TensorFlow equivalent, using source code transformation. Brian Lee and Priya Gupta demonstrate how to distribute your training in TensorFlow easily across multiple accelerators and machines. Read more.

Max Gadney and Sabih Ali explore some of the ways designers and product teams are designing systems with transparency, trust, and privacy in mind. Read more.

Recent research has shown that training for quantization can lead to large gains in energy efficiency, and embedded runtime packages like TensorFlow Lite and Caffe2Go offer portability over a number of platforms. Cormac Brick asks, Why can't we have both performance and portability? Cormac explores industry challenges and details the progress needed to close the portability-performance gap. Read more.

While great strides have been made in perceptual AI (for example, in speech recognition), there's been relatively modest progress in reasoning AI—systems that can interact with us in natural ways and understand the objects in our environment. David Barber explains why general AI will be out of reach until we address how to endow machines with knowledge of our environment. Read more.

Christopher Nguyen shares lessons learned implementing multiple AI commercial projects at Panasonic. Along the way, Christopher discusses a number of use cases at various stages of implementation maturity and explains what AI really means today in enterprise products, where the key opportunities are, their impact, and key success factors in the adoption of AI across the enterprise. Read more.

Deep learning for time series prediction has made rapid progress in the past few years, but performance still greatly lags that of other intelligence tasks. Aileen Nielsen offers an overview of the state of the art in 2018, covering the hottest new architectures, emerging best practices for RNN training, and long overdue standard metrics to measure and compete on neural network prediction. Read more.

The common perception of applying deep learning is that you take an open source or research model, train it on raw data, and deploy the result as a fully self-contained artifact. The reality is far more complex. Nick Pentreath shares lessons learned building a deep learning model exchange and discusses the future of standardized cross-framework deep learning model training and deployment. Read more.

Thomas Endres and Samuel Hopstock demonstrate how to apply machine learning techniques on a program's source code, covering problems you may encounter, how to get enough relevant training data, how to encode the source code as a feature vector so that it can be processed mathematically, what machine learning algorithms to use, and more. Read more.

Training complex machine learning models with large amounts of data can take a very long time. Thomas Norrie explores methods for accelerating this process by distributing training across multiple accelerators and machines and leads a technical deep dive into Google Cloud’s TPU accelerators. Read more.

AI is a key innovation accelerator for digital business transformation. To help you with your strategic roadmap, Philip Carnelley shares IDC's research into the AI market across hundreds of European organizations and explains why organizations should establish a digital platform based on big data, AI, and cloud technologies, with an intelligent core, as part of their transformation strategy. Read more.

Even in the age of big data, labeled data is a scarce resource in many machine learning use cases. Florian Wilhelm evaluates generative adversarial networks (GANs) when used to extract information from vehicle registrations under a varying amount of labeled data, compares the performance with supervised learning techniques, and demonstrates a significant improvement when using unlabeled data. Read more.

Automatic summarization is the computational process of shortening one or more text documents in order to identify their key points. Guy Feigenblat surveys recent advances in unsupervised automated summarization technologies and discusses recent research publications and datasets. Guy concludes with an overview of a novel summarization technology developed by IBM. Read more.

Transfer learning allows data scientists to leverage insights from large labeled datasets. The general idea of transfer learning is to use knowledge learned from tasks for which a lot of labeled data is available in settings where only little labelled data is available. Lars Hulstaert explains what transfer learning is and demonstrates how it can boost your NLP or CV pipelines. Read more.

When you train a model on private data, how much of that information does the model retain? Katharine Jarmul reviews research on attacks against models to extract training data and expose potentially sensitive information. Katharine then shares potential defenses as well as best practices when training models using private or sensitive data. Read more.

Chris Boyd and John Wiley explain how the Wall Street Journal uses machine learning and a proprietary algorithm to predict the likelihood for someone subscribing, which in turn dictates the paywall experience that customer receives. Read more.

SURFSara and Intel collaborated as part of the Intel Parallel Computing Center initiative to advance the state of large-scale neural network training on Intel Xeon CPU-based servers. Ananth Sankar, Valeriu Codreanu, Damian Podareanu, and Steve Smith share insights on several best-known methods for neural network training and present results from tests performed on Stanford's CheXNet project. Read more.

Pete Warden discusses the surprising effectiveness of deep learning on low-power devices. Read more.

Advertising in China is on the frontline of AI adoption and innovation. Join Bessie Lee and Ching Law for a conversation on how AI is changing advertising. You'll hear how China's white-hot AI advertising applications can serve as roadmaps and spark ideas in other industries and how companies like Tencent are improving performance by leveraging AI technology. Read more.

On his journey to the top spot at Kaggle, Marios Michailidis noticed that many of the things he does to perform competitively in data challenges could be automated. Marios shares lessons learned from his Kaggle experience and shows how you can achieve competitive performance in predictive modeling tasks automatically, using H2O.ai’s Driverless AI—an AI that creates AI. Read more.

When building natural language processing (NLP)-based applications, you quickly learn that no single NLP algorithm can handle the wide range of tasks required to turn text into value. Amy Heineike explains how she orchestrates natural language processing, understanding, and generation algorithms to build text-based AI applications for Fortune 500 companies. Read more.

Blockchain technologies offer new internet primitives for creating open and online data marketplaces. Roger Chen explores how data markets can be constructed and how they offer a shared resource on the internet for AI-based research, discovery, and development. Read more.

Peter Cahill explains why Wavenet will be the next generation of recognition, synthesis, and voice-activity detection. Read more.

We're in the year of the AI fake out. "Fake news" is the order of the day, as nebulous chatbots have become significant political actors. Startups peddle robotically handwritten notes and algorithmically personalized gifts for our loved ones. Soon we won't even be able to tell if a customer service agent is a real person. Aileen Nielsen asks, How should we redefine intelligence as fakes flourish? Read more.

In recent years, we’ve seen a shift from traditional vision algorithms to deep neural network algorithms. While many companies expect to move to deep learning for some or all of their algorithms, they may have a significant investment in classical vision. Paul Brasnett explains how to express and adapt a classical vision algorithm to become a trainable DNN. Read more.

As machine learning evolves from experimentation to serving production workloads, so does the need to effectively manage the end-to-end training and serving workflow. Kenny Song and Quentin de Laroussilhe offer an overview of TensorFlow Extended, the end-to-end machine learning platform for TensorFlow that powers products across all of Google. Read more.

What does a workforce augmented by digital humans look like? Marie Johnson shares the story of the creation of Nadia, the world’s first digital human for service delivery. Drawing on her experience developing the concept and leading the delivery, Marie presents a framework to help leaders meet exponential changes across industries augmented by digital humans, including healthcare. Read more.

Dramatic progress has been made in computer vision. Deep neural networks (DNNs) trained on millions of images can recognize thousands of different objects, and they can be customized to new use cases. Vanja Paunic and Patrick Buehler outline simple methods and tools that enable users to easily and quickly adapt Microsoft's state-of-the-art DNNs for use in their own computer vision solutions. Read more.

Sid Reddy shows you how to avoid the hype and decide which use cases are the best for deep reinforcement learning. You'll explore the Markov decision process with conversational AI and learn how to set up the environment, states, agent actions, transition probabilities, reward functions, and end states. You'll also discover when to use end-to-end reinforcement learning. Read more.

Machine learning and AI models now outperform humans on many tasks. However, sending sensor data up to the cloud and back is too slow for many apps and autonomous machines. Jameson Toole explains why developers seeking to provide seamless user experiences must now move their models down to devices on the edge, where they can run faster, at lower cost, and with greater privacy. Read more.

Archisman Majumdar and Jai Ganesh describe the effects of AI techniques on frontend GUI development—specifically, the use of automatically generated code and architecture from text descriptions—and share deep learning techniques for text-to-image creation and template-to-code generation, along with cloud technologies in automated deployment, management, and scaling of such applications. Read more.

With the more applications of machine learning-based applications, the complex algorithms that automate behaviors can get out of control. Ira Cohen explains how to catch problems and glitches early on by using machine learning algorithms to monitor these algorithms for anomalous behavior. Read more.

Detection of moving vessels with satellite sensors is a challenging problem. Satellite imagery is expensive, covers a very small area, and can be acquired only at predefined acquisition opportunities. Natalie Fridman dives into this challenging problem and shares ISI's AI-based solution along with successful examples of detecting maritime vessels with ISI's satellites. Read more.

Whether you’re new to machine learning (ML) or you’re already an expert, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has a variety of tools to help you. Sara Robinson starts with the basics: how to use a pretrained ML model with a single API call. She then demonstrates how to customize a pretrained model with AutoML. Sara concludes by explaining how to train and serve a custom TensorFlow model on GCP. Read more.

As organizations turn to data-driven strategies, there's been increasing interest in creating AI centers of excellence (COEs). Benjamin Wright-Jones and Simon Lidberg take you through the building blocks of a center of excellence and describe the value for organizations embarking on data-driven strategies. Read more.

Christopher Cho details how to leverage Kubernetes and the mighty Kubernetes APIs to build a complete deep learning pipeline, from data ingestion and aggregation to preprocessing and ML training to serving. Along the way, Christopher covers Kubeflow, a Google open source solution for managing machine learning with TensorFlow in a portable, scalable manner. Read more.

Cashflow is responsible for 80–90% of UK SME failure. Fluidly uses the wealth of financial data available through APIs to instantly predict cashflow. Johnnie Ball details how the company built an automated cashflow engine, explores the challenges faced in applying AI to financial data, and explains how machine learning can redefine how we think about established approaches to modeling. Read more.

Zhipeng Huang explains how resource representation (RR) works with various intermediate representation (IR) technologies to help achieve the democratization of AI. Read more.

Google's AIY Projects kits bring Google's machine learning algorithms to developers with limited experience in the field, allowing them to prototype machine learning applications and smart hardware more easily. Alasdair Allan walks you through setting up and building the kits and demonstrates how to use the kits' Python SDK for machine learning both in the cloud and locally on a Raspberry Pi. Read more.