The world of work is always changing, with career options and opportunity never static. We can traverse multiple careers across a lifetime, and work across time zones and continents. Yet we need to find ways to keep our work relevant and meaningful. … Read more
Generative AI: creating objects with machine learning
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have allowed many companies to develop algorithms and tools to automatically generate artificial (but realistic) 3D or 2D images. Such algorithms are part of a research area … Read more
Machine learning as a service – serving reusable ML models
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are huge topics at the moment. So, when I saw the title of this talk at Codemotion Amsterdam 2019 I was intrigued. The talk was given by three developers from ING, who build components for the rest of the … Read more
Fantastic Data and Where to Find Them
In 2016 Richard Lee was applying for a passport online in New Zealand when the system objected to the image he uploaded: “subject’s eyes are closed”. Richard is an Asian male and actually his eyes in the photo were open, but the machine learning … Read more
This week’s top tech news stories
Happy Friday! Welcome to our roundup of the biggest tech stories in the news this week.We're going to find aliens, say scientistsThe search for extraterrestrial lifeforms has ramped up as space agencies launched ambitious programmes to answer … Read more
Election technology: making voting great again?
Boris in No. 10, Putin in the Kremlin, Trump in the White House. Our voting decisions in national elections have an enormous impact, for better or for worse.But how to vote in an election is changing across the world, thanks to digital … Read more
Artificial Intelligence and Stupidity: can robots be smart?
Are robots going to steal your job? The answer is probably yes, but this won’t be any time soon. AI bugs are a thing so let’s talk about Artificial Stupidity.Why do we fear Robots?Everyone who has ever heard of Artificial Intelligence knows that … Read more
Jobs in artificial intelligence and robotics top LinkedIn list for 2020
Artificial intelligence specialist and robotics engineer are the fastest-growing jobs in the US, according to LinkedIn.The annual Emerging Jobs Report highlights the skills associated with these roles and the cities and industries in which … Read more
Design in the Age of AI
Hello Norman, for those who don't already know you, please introduce yourself! My name is Norman Di Palo, I'm from Naples but I live in Rome, though currently I live in Helsinki and I work as an AI researcher in a startup. I have a degree in … Read more
iPhone X’s Face ID using Deep Learning
Hello Norman. Recently you’ve presented to the members of the Facebook Developer Circle community your talk on "How I implemented iPhone X's Face ID using Deep Learning". Would you like to tell us what it was about? I gladly accepted the … Read more
The importance of Cloud Computing for AI and Big Data
With no surprise, we are witnessing an incredibly growing interest towards cloud computing. There are many applications where developers can't just rely on a private server, needing higher computational resources that only good cloud service … Read more
Conversation AI is the new UX
The use of chatbots is a fast-growing business that meets the needs of all stakeholders involved. According to some recent researches, 80% of custom interactions can be resolved by well-designed bots (Accenture), 60% of the consumers want easier … Read more
From artificial intelligence to generative deep learning
In recent years, artificial intelligence has evolved at an exponential rate, especially after a new kind, or perhaps an improvement, of machine learning emerged, namely deep learning. Deep learning techniques renewed neural networks both by defining … Read more
Understanding AI: Training
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are terms informally used to mean a machine’s ability to mimic human cognitive functions, such as perceiving, reasoning and problem-solving. With human-like abilities to “think,” AI is taking on … Read more
Understanding AI: Inference
Inferencing is the second phase of machine learning, following on from the initial training phase. During the training phase, the algorithm generates a new model or repurposes a pre-trained model for a specific application and helps the model learn … Read more
Let’s all discover TensorFlow Eager and TensorFlow Lite
Simone Scardapane is a very talented AI and machine learning researcher and developer. In this interview he told us what are TensorFlow Eager and TensorFlow Lite. Hello Simone. At one of the AperiTech meetups you presented your talk "Let's all … Read more
Eager execution – interactive codelab, a low-level interface to write TensorFlow code in a simpler and more intuitive way
Simone Scardapane is a very talented AI and machine learning researcher and developer. He gave us some precious suggestions to simplify TensorFlow-based development. Hello Simone. As we know, Tensorflow is one of the most popular deep learning … Read more
AI in the news: what’s new from F8 2018
Simone Scardapane is a very talented AI and machine learning researcher and developer. He told us some of the news in the field of AI from F8 2018. Hello Simone. At one of the AperiTech meetups you gave the talk entitled "AI in the news: what's … Read more
Facebook Messenger: what are chatbots and what can they offer
Hello Paolo, let’s start with a simple question: could you tell us something about yourself? I did my studies in computer engineering and I got in touch with AperiTech through the Facebook Developer Circle Rome community. I'm the CTO at Hej! which … Read more
Bot Framework: how to create our first Bot
Hello Alessio. During one of our #AperiTech meetups, you presented a talk on a very interesting topic: the Bot. Could you tell us about that? In this talk, being more focused on Microsoft technologies, we talked about the toolkit for bot … Read more