by andy@homeAI | Oct 31, 2016 | News Stories
FRET-FLIM Optimization Shows Activity of Two Signalling Molecules in Single Dendritic Spine
Jupiter, FL (Scicasts) — An ongoing challenge for scientists working to understand the brain is being able to see all its parts. Researchers have spent centuries...
by andy@homeAI | Oct 31, 2016 | News Stories
Does your mind jump around or get stuck?
During downtime, some of us daydream while others might focus on a to-do list, or get stuck in a negative loop. Psychology has traditionally defined all these thought patterns as variations of “mind-wandering.” A...
by andy@homeAI | Oct 31, 2016 | News Stories
A.I. ‘Nightmare Machine’ Knows What Scares You
[unable to retrieve full-text content]The designers used a form of artificial intelligence called “deep learning” — a system of data structures and programs mimicking the...
by andy@homeAI | Oct 31, 2016 | News Stories
MIT Nightmare Machine uses deep learning AI to create horror
Google used algorithms to create trippy, dreamy images, and now MIT has done something similar…only with a horror slant to keep in theme with Halloween. Called the Nightmare Machine, this deep...
by andy@homeAI | Oct 31, 2016 | News Stories
A Day Out at the Fair
A Day Out at the Fair Lucinda Gardner, Christine Trotter, and I were extremely impressed with how the potential applicants conducted themselves, both in their professionalism and their passion to find out more about market research....
by andy@homeAI | Oct 31, 2016 | News Stories
Databricks Adds Deep Learning Support to Cloud-Based Apache Spark Platform
Databricks, the company founded by the creators of the Apache Spark project, has added deep learning support to its cloud-based Apache Spark platform.This enhancement adds GPU...
by andy@homeAI | Oct 31, 2016 | News Stories
Graphcore Touts 100x ML Speedup with PCIe Plug-In
(Mcimage/Shutterstock) Graphcore emerged from stealth mode today with news of a $30 million Series A round to help finance ongoing development of its machine learning (ML) and deep learning acceleration...
by andy@homeAI | Oct 31, 2016 | News Stories
Study reveals the brain regulates social behavior differently in males and females Georgia State …
IMAGE: Dr. Elliott Albers is director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Regents’ Professor of Neuroscience at Georgia State...
by andy@homeAI | Oct 31, 2016 | News Stories
Balancing time & space in the brain: New model holds promise for predicting brain dynamics
PITTSBURGH–For as long as scientists have been listening in on the activity of the brain, they have been trying to understand the source of its noisy,...
by andy@homeAI | Oct 31, 2016 | News Stories
NVIDIA (NVDA) Has Room to Grow, Everywhere
Written by Ophir Gottlieb PREFACE NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is our number one Spotlight Top Pick and our best performer as well. The question I get rather often is whether the stock has peaked and the...
by andy@homeAI | Oct 31, 2016 | News Stories
Just in Time for Halloween, We Now Have an A.I. Program for Making Celebrities Look Absolutely …
Can artificial intelligence learn what keeps you up at night? Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images Angelina Jolie’s lips bleed onto her sallow,...
by andy@homeAI | Oct 31, 2016 | News Stories
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit Version 2.0 Beta
The open source Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit has a new website together with the first beta of Version 2.0. Previously known as CNTK is sets out to be a commercial-grade toolkit for training deep learning...
by andy@homeAI | Oct 31, 2016 | News Stories
NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) Has Room to Grow
PREFACENVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is our number one Spotlight Top Pick and our best performer as well. The question I get rather often is whether the stock has peaked and the opportunity is over. The...
by andy@homeAI | Oct 31, 2016 | News Stories
This Machine Was Built To Give You Nightmares
Great news, technophobes: Machines are now learning how to scare us. With the help of deep learning algorithms, an artificial intelligence project dubbed the Nightmare Machine is figuring out how to create the...
by andy@homeAI | Oct 31, 2016 | News Stories
PhD Positions at IMPRS for Molecular Life Sciences – Focus on Circuit Neuroscience
The IMPRS for Molecular Life Sciences: From Biological Structures to Neural Circuits (IMPRS-LS) is a PhD program that brings together two renowned Munich based Max...
by andy@homeAI | Oct 31, 2016 | News Stories
Databricks Spark Platform Gets Deep Learning Boost
News Databricks Spark Platform Gets Deep Learning Boost By David Ramel 10/31/2016 Databricks Inc. said it’s wedding Big Data with deep learning in the latest update to its Apache Spark-based...
by andy@homeAI | Oct 31, 2016 | News Stories
MIT’s ‘Nightmare Machine’ transforms photos into creepy images
Comments Print You no longer need to step into a haunted house, or watch a cinematic thriller, to conjure up a good scare. As a treat leading up to Halloween, researchers at...
by andy@homeAI | Oct 31, 2016 | News Stories
Facilitating deep learning techniques with HPEC
The long-sought era of machine learning in finally at hand. The potential benefit to the warfighter of deep learning techniques both enormous and profound. With defense systems trending towards greater...
by andy@homeAI | Oct 31, 2016 | News Stories
Money 20/20 Panel: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Written by: Ryan Strauss 2016/10/31 12:00 PM On Wednesday morning at the Money20/20 conference in Las Vegas, a unique and timely panel discussed the emergence and potential applications...
by andy@homeAI | Oct 31, 2016 | News Stories
Sound perception and the importance of context
A study published this week in Nature Neuroscience takes a fresh look at how context impacts the way in which we respond to sound stimuli. The results show that the underlying neuroscience is both complex and...