The global Machine Learning in Finance Market is carefully researched in the report while largely concentrating on top players and their business tactics, geographical expansion, market segments, competitive landscape, manufacturing, and pricing and cost structures. Each section of the research study is specially prepared to explore key aspects of the global Machine Learning in Finance Market. For instance, the market dynamics section digs deep into the drivers, restraints, trends, and opportunities of the global Machine Learning in Finance Market. With qualitative and quantitative analysis, we help you with thorough and comprehensive research on the global Machine Learning in Finance Market. We have also focused on SWOT, PESTLE, and Porters Five Forces analyses of the global Machine Learning in Finance Market.

Leading players of the global Machine Learning in Finance Market are analyzed taking into account their market share, recent developments, new product launches, partnerships, mergers or acquisitions, and markets served. We also provide an exhaustive analysis of their product portfolios to explore the products and applications they concentrate on when operating in the global Machine Learning in Finance Market. Furthermore, the report offers two separate market forecasts one for the production side and another for the consumption side of the global Machine Learning in Finance Market. It also provides useful recommendations for new as well as established players of the global Machine Learning in Finance Market.

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With the slowdown in world economic growth, the Machine Learning in Finance industry has also suffered a certain impact, but still maintained a relatively optimistic growth, the past four years, Machine Learning in Finance market size to maintain the average annual growth rate of 15 from XXX million $ in 2014 to XXX million $ in 2019, This Report analysts believe that in the next few years, Machine Learning in Finance market size will be further expanded, we expect that by 2024, The market size of the Machine Learning in Finance will reach XXX million $.

Segmentation by Product:

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Global Machine Learning in Finance Market is highly fragmented and the major players have used various strategies such as new product launches, expansions, agreements, joint ventures, partnerships, acquisitions, and others to increase their footprints in this market. The report includes market shares of Machine Learning in Finance Market for Global, Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, South America and Middle East & Africa.

Scope of the Report:The all-encompassing research weighs up on various aspects including but not limited to important industry definition, product applications, and product types. The pro-active approach towards analysis of investment feasibility, significant return on investment, supply chain management, import and export status, consumption volume and end-use offers more value to the overall statistics on the Machine Learning in Finance Market. All factors that help business owners identify the next leg for growth are presented through self-explanatory resources such as charts, tables, and graphic images.

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Table of Contents

Report Overview:It includes major players of the global Machine Learning in Finance Market covered in the research study, research scope, and Market segments by type, market segments by application, years considered for the research study, and objectives of the report.

Global Growth Trends:This section focuses on industry trends where market drivers and top market trends are shed light upon. It also provides growth rates of key producers operating in the global Machine Learning in Finance Market. Furthermore, it offers production and capacity analysis where marketing pricing trends, capacity, production, and production value of the global Machine Learning in Finance Market are discussed.

Market Share by Manufacturers:Here, the report provides details about revenue by manufacturers, production and capacity by manufacturers, price by manufacturers, expansion plans, mergers and acquisitions, and products, market entry dates, distribution, and market areas of key manufacturers.

Market Size by Type:This section concentrates on product type segments where production value market share, price, and production market share by product type are discussed.

Market Size by Application:Besides an overview of the global Machine Learning in Finance Market by application, it gives a study on the consumption in the global Machine Learning in Finance Market by application.

Production by Region:Here, the production value growth rate, production growth rate, import and export, and key players of each regional market are provided.

Consumption by Region:This section provides information on the consumption in each regional market studied in the report. The consumption is discussed on the basis of country, application, and product type.

Company Profiles:Almost all leading players of the global Machine Learning in Finance Market are profiled in this section. The analysts have provided information about their recent developments in the global Machine Learning in Finance Market, products, revenue, production, business, and company.

Market Forecast by Production:The production and production value forecasts included in this section are for the global Machine Learning in Finance Market as well as for key regional markets.

Market Forecast by Consumption:The consumption and consumption value forecasts included in this section are for the global Machine Learning in Finance Market as well as for key regional markets.

Value Chain and Sales Analysis:It deeply analyzes customers, distributors, sales channels, and value chain of the global Machine Learning in Finance Market.

Key Findings: This section gives a quick look at important findings of the research study.

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Deep learning applications usually involve complex optimisation problems that are often difficult to solve analytically. Often the objective function itself may not be in analytically closed-form, which means that the objective function only permits function evaluations without any gradient evaluations. This is where Zeroth-Order comes in.

Optimisation corresponding to the above types of problems falls into the category of Zeroth-Order (ZO) optimisation with respect to the black-box models, where explicit expressions of the gradients are hard to estimate or infeasible to obtain.

Researchers from IBM Research and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab discussed the topic of Zeroth-Order optimisation at the on-going Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2020 conference.

In this article, we will take a dive into what Zeroth-Order optimisation is and how this method can be applied in complex deep learning applications.

Zeroth-Order (ZO) optimisation is a subset of gradient-free optimisation that emerges in various signal processing as well as machine learning applications. ZO optimisation methods are basically the gradient-free counterparts of first-order (FO) optimisation techniques. ZO approximates the full gradients or stochastic gradients through function value-based gradient estimates.

Derivative-Free methods for black-box optimisation has been studied by the optimisation community for many years now. However, conventional Derivative-Free optimisation methods have two main shortcomings that include difficulties to scale to large-size problems and lack of convergence rate analysis.

ZO optimisation has the following three main advantages over the Derivative-Free optimisation methods:

ZO optimisation has drawn increasing attention due to its success in solving emerging signal processing and deep learning as well as machine learning problems. This optimisation method serves as a powerful and practical tool for evaluating adversarial robustness of deep learning systems.

According to Pin-Yu Chen, a researcher at IBM Research, Zeroth-order (ZO) optimisation achieves gradient-free optimisation by approximating the full gradient via efficient gradient estimators.

Some recent important applications include generation of prediction-evasive, black-box adversarial attacks on deep neural networks, generation of model-agnostic explanation from machine learning systems, and design of gradient or curvature regularised robust ML systems in a computationally-efficient manner. In addition, the use cases span across automated ML and meta-learning, online network management with limited computation capacity, parameter inference of black-box/complex systems, and bandit optimisation in which a player receives partial feedback in terms of loss function values revealed by her adversary.

Talking about the application of ZO optimisation to the generation of prediction-evasive adversarial examples to fool DL models, the researchers stated that most studies on adversarial vulnerability of deep learning had been restricted to the white-box setting where the adversary has complete access and knowledge of the target system, such as deep neural networks.

In most of the cases, the internal states or configurations and the operating mechanism of deep learning systems are not revealed to the practitioners, for instance, Google Cloud Vision API. This in result gives rise to the issues of black-box adversarial attacks where the only mode of interaction of the adversary with the system is through the submission of inputs and receiving the corresponding predicted outputs.

ZO optimisation serves as a powerful and practical tool for evaluating adversarial robustness of deep learning as well as machine learning systems. ZO-based methods for exploring vulnerabilities of deep learning to black-box adversarial attacks are able to reveal the most susceptible features.

Such methods of ZO optimisation can be as effective as state-of-the-art white-box attacks, despite only having access to the inputs and outputs of the targeted deep neural networks. ZO optimisation can also generate explanations and provide interpretations of prediction results in a gradient-free and model-agnostic manner.

The interest in ZO optimisation has grown rapidly over the last few decades. According to the researchers, ZO optimisation has been increasingly embraced for solving big data and machine learning problems when explicit expressions of the gradients are difficult to compute or infeasible to obtain.

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Market Overview

Machine learning has become a disruptive trend in the technology industry with computers learning to accomplish tasks without being explicitly programmed. The manufacturing industry is relatively new to the concept of machine learning. Machine learning is well aligned to deal with the complexities of the manufacturing industry.

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Manufacturers can improve their product quality, ensure supply chain efficiency, reduce time to market, fulfil reliability standards, and thus, enhance their customer base through the application of machine learning. Machine learning algorithms offer predictive insights at every stage of the production, which can ensure efficiency and accuracy. Problems that earlier took months to be addressed are now being resolved quickly.

The predictive failure of equipment is the biggest use case of machine learning in manufacturing. The predictions can be utilized to create predictive maintenance to be done by the service technicians. Certain algorithms can even predict the type of failure that may occur so that correct replacement parts and tools can be brought by the technician for the job.

Market Analysis

According to Infoholic Research, Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) Market will witness a CAGR of 49% during the forecast period 20172023. The market is propelled by certain growth drivers such as the increased application of advanced analytics in manufacturing, high volume of structured and unstructured data, the integration of machine learning with big data and other technologies, the rising importance of predictive and preventive maintenance, and so on. The market growth is curbed to a certain extent by restraining factors such as implementation challenges, the dearth of skilled data scientists, and data inaccessibility and security concerns to name a few.

Segmentation by Components

The market has been analyzed and segmented by the following components Software Tools, Cloud and Web-based Application Programming Interface (APIs), and Others.

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Segmentation by End-users

The market has been analyzed and segmented by the following end-users, namely process industries and discrete industries. The application of machine learning is much higher in discrete than in process industries.

Segmentation by Deployment Mode

The market has been analyzed and segmented by the following deployment mode, namely public and private.

Regional Analysis

The market has been analyzed by the following regions as Americas, Europe, APAC, and MEA. The Americas holds the largest market share followed by Europe and APAC. The Americas is experiencing a high adoption rate of machine learning in manufacturing processes. The demand for enterprise mobility and cloud-based solutions is high in the Americas. The manufacturing sector is a major contributor to the GDP of the European countries and is witnessing AI driven transformation. Chinas dominant manufacturing industry is extensively applying machine learning techniques. China, India, Japan, and South Korea are investing significantly on AI and machine learning. MEA is also following a high growth trajectory.

Vendor Analysis

Some of the key players in the market are Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google, Inc., and IBM Corporation. The report also includes watchlist companies such as BigML Inc., Sight Machine, Eigen Innovations Inc., Seldon Technologies Ltd., and Citrine Informatics Inc.

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The study covers and analyzes the Global MLaaS Market in the manufacturing context. Bringing out the complete key insights of the industry, the report aims to provide an opportunity for players to understand the latest trends, current market scenario, government initiatives, and technologies related to the market. In addition, it helps the venture capitalists in understanding the companies better and take informed decisions.

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June 16, 2020

As parts of the U.S. tentatively reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the nations long-term health continues to depend on tracking the virus and predicting where it might surge next.

Finding the right computer models can be tricky, but two researchers at Binghamton Universitys Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science believe they have an innovative way to solve those problems, and they are sharing their work online.

Using data collected from around the world by Johns Hopkins University, Arti Ramesh and Anand Seetharam both assistant professors in the Department of Computer Science have built several prediction models that take advantage of artificial intelligence. Assisting the research is PhD student Raushan Raj.

Arti Ramesh, assistant professor, computer science

Machine learning allows the algorithms to learn and improve without being explicitly programmed. The models examine trends and patterns from the 50 countries where coronavirus infection rates are highest, including the U.S., and can often predict within a 10% margin of error what will happen for the next three days based on the data for the past 14 days.

We believe that the past data encodes all of the necessary information, Seetharam said. These infections have spread because of measures that have been implemented or not implemented, and also because how some people have been adhering to restrictions or not. Different countries around the world have different levels of restrictions and socio-economic status.

For their initial study, Ramesh and Seetharam inputted global infection numbers through April 30, which allowed them to see how their predictions played out through May.

Certain anomalies can lead to difficulties. For instance, data from China was not included because of concerns about government transparency regarding COVID-19. Also, with health resources often taxed to the limit, tracking the virus spread sometimes wasnt the priority.

Anand Seetharam, assistant professor, computer science

We have seen in many countries that they have counted the infections but not attributed it on the day they were identified, Ramesh said. They will add them all on one day, and suddenly theres a shift in the data that our model is not able to predict.

Although infection rates are declining in many parts of the U.S., they are rising in other countries, and U.S. health officials fear a second wave of COVID-19 when people tired of the lockdown fail to follow safely guidelines such as wearing face masks.

The main utility of this study is to prepare hospitals and healthcare workers with proper equipment, Seetharam said. If they know that the next three days are going to see a surge and the beds at their hospitals are all filled up, theyll need to construct temporary beds and things like that.

As the coronavirus sweeps around the world, Ramesh and Seetharam continue to gather data so that their models can become more accurate. Other researchers or healthcare officials who want to utilize their models can find them posted online.

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Each data point is a day, and if it stretches longer, it will produce more interesting patterns in the data, Ramesh said. Then we will use more complex models, because they need more complex data patterns. Right now, those dont exist so were using simpler models, which are also easier to run and understand.

Ramesh and Seetharams paper is called Ensemble Regression Models for Short-term Prediction of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases.

Earlier this year, they launched a different tracking project, gathering data from Twitter to determine how Americans dealt with the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Machine learning follows a process of preparing data, training an algorithm and generating a machine learning model, and then making and refining predictions.

Preparing the data

Machine learning requires data that is analyzed, formatted and conditioned to build a machine learning model. Judith Hurwitz and Daniel Kirsch, authors of Machine Learning For Dummies, advise that machine learning requires the right set of data that can be applied to a learning process. Data preparation typically involves these tasks:

Training the algorithm

Machine learning uses the prepared data to train a machine learning algorithm. An algorithm is a computerized procedure or recipe. When the algorithm is trained on the data, a machine learning model is generated. Selecting the right algorithm is essential to applying machine learning successfully. Selection is largely influenced by the application and the data available. But there are some commonly used algorithms and applications:

Predicting and refining

Once the data is prepared and the algorithm trained, the machine learning model can make determinations or predictions about the data on its own. For example:

Consider a data set that has two basic values for cars: weight and speed. Values can be plotted on a graph that shows light cars tend to be fast and heavy cars tend to be slow.

When the machine learning model is provided with data about cars, it uses the algorithm to determine or predict whether a car will tend to be fast or slow, or light or heavy. It does this without explicit human intervention. And the more data provided, the more the model learns and improves the accuracy of its predictions.

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According to the approach embraced by McRO and BASCOM, while machine learning algorithms bringing a slight improvement can pass the eligibility test, algorithms paving the way for a whole new technology can be excluded from the benefits of patent protection simply because there are no alternatives.

In the past decade or so, humanity has gone through drastic changes as Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as recommendation systems and voice assistants have seeped into every facet of our lives. Whereas the number of patent applications for AI inventions skyrocketed, almost a third of these applications are rejected by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the majority of these rejections are due to the claimed invention being ineligible subject matter.

The inventive concept may be attributed to different components of machine learning technologies, such as using a new algorithm, feeding more data, or using a new hardware component. However, this article will exclusively focus on the inventions achieved by Machine Learning (M.L.) algorithms and the effect of the preemption test adopted by U.S. courts on the patent-eligibility of such algorithms.

Since the Alice decision, the U.S. courts have adopted different views related to the role of the preemption test in eligibility analysis. While some courts have ruled that lack of preemption of abstract ideas does not make an invention patent-eligible [Ariosa Diagnostics Inc. v. Sequenom Inc.], others have not referred to it at all in their patent eligibility analysis. [Enfish LLC v. Microsoft Corp., 822 F.3d 1327]

Contrary to those examples, recent cases from Federal Courts have used the preemption test as the primary guidance to decide patent eligibility.

In McRO, the Federal Circuit ruled that the algorithms in the patent application prevent pre-emption of all processes for achieving automated lip-synchronization of 3-D characters. The court based this conclusion on the evidence of availability of an alternative set of rules to achieve the automation process other than the patented method. It held that the patent was directed to a specific structure to automate the synchronization and did not preempt the use of all of the rules for this method given that different sets of rules to achieve the same automated synchronization could be implemented by others.

Similarly, The Court in BASCOM ruled that the claims were patent eligible because they recited a specific, discrete implementation of the abstract idea of filtering contentand they do not preempt all possible ways to implement the image-filtering technology.

The analysis of the McRO and BASCOM cases reveals two important principles for the preemption analysis:

Machine learning can be defined as a mechanism which searches for patterns and which feeds intelligence into a machine so that it can learn from its own experience without explicit programming. Although the common belief is that data is the most important component in machine learning technologies, machine learning algorithms are equally important to proper functioning of these technologies and their importance cannot be understated.

Therefore, inventive concepts enabled by new algorithms can be vital to the effective functioning of machine learning systemsenabling new capabilities, making systems faster or more energy efficient are examples of this. These inventions are likely to be the subject of patent applications. However, the preemption test adopted by courts in the above-mentioned cases may lead to certain types of machine learning algorithms being held ineligible subject matter. Below are some possible scenarios.

The first situation relates to new capabilities enabled by M.L. algorithms. When a new machine learning algorithm adds a new capability or enables the implementation of a process, such as image recognition, for the first time, preemption concerns will likely arise. If the patented algorithm is indispensable for the implementation of that technology, it may be held ineligible based on the McRO case. This is because there are no other alternative means to use this technology and others would be prevented from using this basic tool for further development.

For example, a M.L. algorithm which enabled the lane detection capability in driverless cars may be a standard/must-use algorithm in the implementation of driverless cars that the court may deem patent ineligible for having preemptive effects. This algorithm clearly equips the computer vision technology with a new capability, namely, the capability to detect boundaries of road lanes. Implementation of this new feature on driverless cars would not pass the Alice test because a car is a generic tool, like a computer, and even limiting it to a specific application may not be sufficient because it will preempt all uses in this field.

Should the guidance of McRO and BASCOM be followed, algorithms that add new capabilities and features may be excluded from patent protection simply because there are no other available alternatives to these algorithms to implement the new capabilities. These algorithms use may be so indispensable for the implementation of that technology that they are deemed to create preemptive effects.

Secondly, M.L. algorithms which are revolutionary may also face eligibility challenges.

The history of how deep neural networks have developed will be explained to demonstrate how highly-innovative algorithms may be stripped of patent protection because of the preemption test embraced by McRO and subsequent case law.

Deep Belief Networks (DBNs) is a type of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). The ANNs were trained with a back-propagation algorithm, which adjusts weights by propagating the outputerror backwardsthrough the network However, the problem with the ANNs was that as the depth was increased by adding more layers, the error vanished to zero and this severely affected the overall performance, resulting in less accuracy.

From the early 2000s, there has been a resurgence in the field of ANNs owing to two major developments: increased processing power and more efficient training algorithms which made trainingdeep architecturesfeasible. The ground-breaking algorithm which enabled the further development of ANNs in general and DBNs in particular was Hintons greedy training algorithm.

Thanks to this new algorithm, DBNs has been applicable to solve a variety of problems that were the roadblock before the use of new technologies, such as image processing,natural language processing, automatic speech recognition, andfeature extractionand reduction.

As can be seen, the Hiltons fast learning algorithm revolutionized the field of machine learning because it made the learning easier and, as a result, technologies such as image processing and speech recognition have gone mainstream.

If patented and challenged at court, Hiltons algorithm would likely be invalidated considering previous case law. In McRO, the court reasoned that the algorithm at issue should not be invalidated because the use of a set of rules within the algorithm is not a must and other methods can be developed and used. Hiltons algorithm will inevitably preempt some AI developers from engaging with further development of DBNs technologies because this algorithm is a base algorithm, which made the DBNs plausible to implement so that it may be considered as a must. Hiltons algorithm enabled the implementation of image recognition technologies and some may argue based on McRO and Enfish that Hiltons algorithm patent would be preempting because it is impossible to implement image recognition technologies without this algorithm.

Even if an algorithm is a must-use for a technology, there is no reason to exclude it from patent protection. Patent law inevitably forecloses certain areas from further development by granting exclusive rights through patents. All patents foreclose competitors to some extent as a natural consequence of exclusive rights.

As stated in the Mayo judgment, exclusive rights provided by patents can impede the flow of information that might permit, indeed spur, invention, by, for example, raising the price of using the patented ideas once created, requiring potential users to conduct costly and time-consuming searches of existing patents and pending patent applications, and requiring the negotiation of complex licensing arrangements.

The exclusive right granted by a patents is only one side of the implicit agreement between the society and the inventor. In exchange for the benefit of the exclusivity, inventors are required to disclose their invention to the public so this knowledge becomes public, available for use in further research and for making new inventions building upon the previous one.

If inventors turn to trade secrets to protect their inventions due to the hostile approach of patent law to algorithmic inventions, the knowledge base in this field will narrow, making it harder to build upon previous technology. This may lead to the slow-down and even possible death of innovation in this industry.

The fact that an algorithm is a must-use, should not lead to the conclusion that it cannot be patented. Patent rights may even be granted for processes which have primary and even sole utility in research. Literally, a microscope is a basic tool for scientific work, but surely no one would assert that a new type of microscope lay beyond the scope of the patent system. Even if such a microscope is used widely and it is indispensable, it can still be given patent protection.

According to the approach embraced by McRO and BASCOM, while M.L. algorithms bringing a slight improvement, such as a higher accuracy and higher speed, can pass the eligibility test, algorithms paving the way for a whole new technology can be excluded from the benefits of patent protection simply because there are no alternatives to implement that revolutionary technology.

Considering that the goal of most AI inventions is to equip computers with new capabilities or bring qualitative improvements to abilities such as to see or to hear or even to make informed judgments without being fed complete information, most AI inventions would have the higher likelihood of being held patent ineligible. Applying this preemption test to M.L. algorithms would put such M.L. algorithms outside of patent protection.

Thus, a M.L. algorithm which increases accuracy by 1% may be eligible, while a ground-breaking M.L. algorithm which is a must-use because it covers all uses in that field may be excluded from patent protection. This would result in rewarding slight improvements with a patent but disregarding highly innovative and ground-breaking M.L. algorithms. Such a consequence is undesirable for the patent system.

This also may result in deterring the AI industry from bringing innovation in fundamental areas. As an undesired consequence, innovation efforts may shift to small improvements instead of innovations solving more complex problems.

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A new project called Keen is launching today from Googles in-house incubator for new ideas, Area 120, to help users track their interests. The app is like a modern rethinking of the Google Alerts service, which allows users to monitor the web for specific content. Except instead of sending emails about new Google Search results, Keen leverages a combination of machine learning techniques and human collaboration to help users curate content around a topic.

Each individual area of interest is called a keen a word often used to reference someone with an intellectual quickness.

The idea for the project came about after co-founder C.J. Adams realized he was spending too much time on his phone mindlessly browsing feeds and images to fill his downtime. He realized that time could be better spent learning more about a topic he was interested in perhaps something he always wanted to research more or a skill he wanted to learn.

To explore this idea, he and four colleagues at Google worked in collaboration with the companys People and AI Research (PAIR) team, which focuses on human-centered machine learning, to create what has now become Keen.

To use Keen, which is available both on the web and on Android, you first sign in with your Google account and enter in a topic you want to research. This could be something like learning to bake bread, bird watching or learning about typography, suggests Adams in an announcement about the new project.

Keen may suggest additional topics related to your interest. For example, type in dog training and Keen could suggest dog training classes, dog training books, dog training tricks, dog training videos and so on. Click on the suggestions you want to track and your keen is created.

When you return to the keen, youll find a pinboard of images linking to web content that matches your interests. In the dog training example, Keen found articles and YouTube videos, blog posts featuring curated lists of resources, an Amazon link to dog training treats and more.

For every collection, the service uses Google Search and machine learning to help discover more content related to the given interest. The more you add to a keen and organize it, the better these recommendations become.

Its like an automated version of Pinterest, in fact.

Once a keen is created, you can then optionally add to the collection, remove items you dont want and share the Keen with others to allow them to also add content. The resulting collection can be either public or private. Keen can also email you alerts when new content is available.

Google, to some extent, already uses similar techniques to power its news feed in the Google app. The feed, in that case, uses a combination of items from your Google Search history and topics you explicitly follow to find news and information it can deliver to you directly on the Google apps home screen. Keen, however, isnt tapping into your search history. Its only pulling content based on interests you directly input.

And unlike the news feed, a keen isnt necessarily focused only on recent items. Any sort of informative, helpful information about the topic can be returned. This can include relevant websites, events, videos and even products.

But as a Google project and one that asks you to authenticate with your Google login the data it collects is shared with Google. Keen, like anything else at Google, is governed by the companys privacy policy.

Though Keen today is a small project inside a big company, it represents another step toward the continued personalization of the web. Tech companies long since realized that connecting users with more of the content that interests them increases their engagement, session length, retention and their positive sentiment for the service in question.

But personalization, unchecked, limits users exposure to new information or dissenting opinions. It narrows a persons worldview. It creates filter bubbles and echo chambers. Algorithmic-based recommendations can send users searching for fringe content further down dangerous rabbit holes, even radicalizing them over time. And in extreme cases, radicalized individuals become terrorists.

Keen would be a better idea if it were pairing machine-learning with topical experts. But it doesnt add a layer of human expertise on top of its tech, beyond those friends and family you specifically invite to collaborate, if you even choose to. That leaves the system wanting for better human editorial curation, and perhaps the need for a narrower focus to start.

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According to PwC, AIs potential global economic impact will reach USD 15.7 trillion by 2030. However, the enterprises who look to deploy AI are often hampered by the lack of time, trust and talent. Especially, with the highly regulated sectors such as healthcare and finance, convincing the customers to imbibe AI methodologies is an uphill task.

Of late, the AI community has seen a sporadic shift in AI adoption with the advent of AutoML tools and introduction of customised hardware to cater to the needs of the algorithms. One of the most widely used AutoML tools in the industry is H2O Driverless AI. And, when it comes to hardware Intel has been consistently updating its tool stack to meet the high computational demands of the AI workflows.

Now H2O.ai and Intel, two companies who have been spearheading the democratisation of the AI movement, join hands to develop solutions that leverage software and hardware capabilities respectively.

AI and machine-learning workflows are complex and enterprises need more confidence in the validity of their AI models than a typical black-box environment can provide. The inexplicability and the complexity of feature engineering can be daunting to the non-experts. So far AutoML has proven to be the one stop solution to all these problems. These tools have alleviated the challenges by providing automated workflows, code ready deployable models and many more.

H2O.ai especially, has pioneered in the AutoML segment. They have developed an open source, distributed in-memory machine learning platform with linear scalability that includes a module called H2OAutoML, which can be used for automating the machine learning workflow, that includes automatic training and tuning of many models within a user-specified time-limit.

Whereas, H2O.ais flagship product Driverless AI can be used to fully automate some of the most challenging and productive tasks in applied data science such as feature engineering, model tuning, model ensembling and model deployment.

But, for these AI based tools to work seamlessly, they need the backing of hardware that is dedicated to handle the computational intensity of machine learning operations.

Intel has been at the forefront of digital revolution for over half a century. Today, Intel flaunts a wide range of technologies, including its Xeon Scalable processors, Optane Solid State Drives and optimized Intel software libraries that bring in a much needed mix of enhanced performance, AI inference, network functions, persistent memory bandwidth, and security.

Integrating H2O.ais software portfolio with hardware and software technologies from Intel has resulted in solutions that can handle almost all the woes of an AI enterprise from automated workflows to explainability to production ready code that can be deployed anywhere.

For example, H2O Driverless AI, an automatic machine-learning platform enables data science experts and beginners to streamline their AI tasks within minutes that usually take months. Today, more than 18,000 companies use open source H2O in mission-critical use cases for finance, insurance, healthcare, retail, telco, sales, and marketing.

The software capabilities of H2O.ai combined with hardware infrastructure of Intel, that includes 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable processors, Optane Solid State Drives and Ethernet Network Adapters, can empower enterprises to optimize performance and accelerate deployment.

Enterprises that are looking for increasing productivity while increasing the business value of to enjoy the competitive advantages of AI innovation no longer have to wait thanks to hardware backed AutoML solutions.

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When incidents of police brutality occur, typically departments enact police reforms and fire bad cops, but machine learning could potentially predict when a police officer may go over the line.

Rayid Ghani is a professor at Carnegie Mellon and joined Seattles Morning News to discuss using machine learning in police reform. Hes working on tech that could predict not only which cops might not be suited to be cops, but which cops might be best for a particular call.

AI and technology and machine learning, and all these buzzwords, theyre not able to to fix racism or bad policing, they are a small but important tool that we can use to help, Ghani said. I was looking at the systems called early intervention systems that a lot of large police departments have. Theyre supposed to raise alerts, raise flags when a police officer is at risk of doing something that they shouldnt be doing, like excessive use of force.

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What we found when looking at data from several police departments is that these existing systems were mostly ineffective, he added. If theyve done three things in the last three months that raised the flag, well thats great. But at the same time, its not an early intervention. Its a late intervention.

So they built a system that works to potentially identify high risk officers before an incident happens, but how exactly do you predict how somebody is going to behave?

We build a predictive system that would identify high risk officers We took everything we know about a police officer from their HR data, from their dispatch history, from who they arrested , their internal affairs, the complaints that are coming against them, the investigations that have happened, Ghani said.

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What we found were some of the obvious predictors were what you think is their historical behavior. But some of the other non-obvious ones were things like repeated dispatches to suicide attempts or repeated dispatches to domestic abuse cases, especially involving kids. Those types of dispatches put officers at high risk for the near future.

While this might suggest that officers who regularly dealt with traumatic dispatches might be the ones who are higher risk, the data doesnt explain why, it just identifies possibilities.

It doesnt necessarily allow us to figure out the why, it allows us to narrow down which officers are high risk, Ghani said. Lets say a call comes in to dispatch and the nearest officer is two minutes away, but is high risk of one of these types of incidents. The next nearest officer is maybe four minutes away and is not high risk. If this dispatch is not time critical for the two minutes extra it would take, could you dispatch the second officer?

So if an officer has been sent to a multiple child abuse cases in a row, it makes more sense to assign somebody else the next time.

Thats right, Ghani said. Thats what that were finding is they become high risk It looks like its a stress indicator or a trauma indicator, and they might need a cool-off period, they might need counseling.

But in this case, the useful thing to think about also is that they havent done anything yet, he added. This is preventative, this is proactive. And so the intervention is not punitive. You dont fire them. You give them the tools that they need.

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The behavior of machine learning systems can be manipulated, with potentially devastating consequences

In March 2019, security researchers at Tencent managed to trick a Tesla Model S into switching lanes.

All they had to do was place a few inconspicuous stickers on the road. The technique exploited glitches in the machine learning (ML) algorithms that power Teslas Lane Detection technology in order to cause it to behave erratically.

Machine learning has become an integral part of many of the applications we use every day from the facial recognition lock on iPhones to Alexas voice recognition function and the spam filters in our emails.

But the pervasiveness of machine learning and its subset, deep learning has also given rise to adversarial attacks, a breed of exploits that manipulate the behavior of algorithms by providing them with carefully crafted input data.

Adversarial attacks are manipulative actions that aim to undermine machine learning performance, cause model misbehavior, or acquire protected information, Pin-Yu Chen, chief scientist, RPI-IBM AI research collaboration at IBM Research, told The Daily Swig.

Adversarial machine learning was studied as early as 2004. But at the time, it was regarded as an interesting peculiarity rather than a security threat. However, the rise of deep learning and its integration into many applications in recent years has renewed interest in adversarial machine learning.

Theres growing concern in the security community that adversarial vulnerabilities can be weaponized to attack AI-powered systems.

As opposed to classic software, where developers manually write instructions and rules, machine learning algorithms develop their behavior through experience.

For instance, to create a lane-detection system, the developer creates a machine learning algorithm and trains it by providing it with many labeled images of street lanes from different angles and under different lighting conditions.

The machine learning model then tunes its parameters to capture the common patterns that occur in images that contain street lanes.

With the right algorithm structure and enough training examples, the model will be able to detect lanes in new images and videos with remarkable accuracy.

But despite their success in complex fields such as computer vision and voice recognition, machine learning algorithms are statistical inference engines: complex mathematical functions that transform inputs to outputs.

If a machine learning tags an image as containing a specific object, it has found the pixel values in that image to be statistically similar to other images of the object it has processed during training.

Adversarial attacks exploit this characteristic to confound machine learning algorithms by manipulating their input data. For instance, by adding tiny and inconspicuous patches of pixels to an image, a malicious actor can cause the machine learning algorithm to classify it as something it is not.

Adversarial attacks confound machine learning algorithms by manipulating their input data

The types of perturbations applied in adversarial attacks depend on the target data type and desired effect. The threat model needs to be customized for different data modality to be reasonably adversarial, says Chen.

For instance, for images and audios, it makes sense to consider small data perturbation as a threat model because it will not be easily perceived by a human but may make the target model to misbehave, causing inconsistency between human and machine.

However, for some data types such as text, perturbation, by simply changing a word or a character, may disrupt the semantics and easily be detected by humans. Therefore, the threat model for text should be naturally different from image or audio.

The most widely studied area of adversarial machine learning involves algorithms that process visual data. The lane-changing trick mentioned at the beginning of this article is an example of a visual adversarial attack.

In 2018, a group of researchers showed that by adding stickers to a stop sign(PDF), they could fool the computer vision system of a self-driving car to mistake it for a speed limit sign.

Researchers tricked self-driving systems into identifying a stop sign as a speed limit sign

In another case, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University managed to fool facial recognition systems into mistaking them for celebrities by using specially crafted glasses.

Adversarial attacks against facial recognition systems have found their first real use in protests, where demonstrators use stickers and makeup to fool surveillance cameras powered by machine learning algorithms.

Computer vision systems are not the only targets of adversarial attacks. In 2018, researchers showed that automated speech recognition (ASR) systems could also be targeted with adversarial attacks(PDF). ASR is the technology that enables Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, and Microsoft Cortana to parse voice commands.

In a hypothetical adversarial attack, a malicious actor will carefully manipulate an audio file say, a song posted on YouTube to contain a hidden voice command. A human listener wouldnt notice the change, but to a machine learning algorithm looking for patterns in sound waves it would be clearly audible and actionable. For example, audio adversarial attacks could be used to secretly send commands to smart speakers.

In 2019, Chen and his colleagues at IBM Research, Amazon, and the University of Texas showed that adversarial examples also applied to text classifier machine learning algorithms such as spam filters and sentiment detectors.

Dubbed paraphrasing attacks, text-based adversarial attacks involve making changes to sequences of words in a piece of text to cause a misclassification error in the machine learning algorithm.

Example of a paraphrasing attack against fake news detectors and spam filters

Like any cyber-attack, the success of adversarial attacks depends on how much information an attacker has on the targeted machine learning model. In this respect, adversarial attacks are divided into black-box and white-box attacks.

Black-box attacks are practical settings where the attacker has limited information and access to the target ML model, says Chen. The attackers capability is the same as a regular user and can only perform attacks given the allowed functions. The attacker also has no knowledge about the model and data used behind the service.

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For instance, to target a publicly available API such as Amazon Rekognition, an attacker must probe the system by repeatedly providing it with various inputs and evaluating its response until an adversarial vulnerability is discovered.

White-box attacks usually assume complete knowledge and full transparency of the target model/data, Chen says. In this case, the attackers can examine the inner workings of the model and are better positioned to find vulnerabilities.

Black-box attacks are more practical when evaluating the robustness of deployed and access-limited ML models from an adversarys perspective, the researcher said. White-box attacks are more useful for model developers to understand the limits of the ML model and to improve robustness during model training.

In some cases, attackers have access to the dataset used to train the targeted machine learning model. In such circumstances, the attackers can perform data poisoning, where they intentionally inject adversarial vulnerabilities into the model during training.

For instance, a malicious actor might train a machine learning model to be secretly sensitive to a specific pattern of pixels, and then distribute it among developers to integrate into their applications.

Given the costs and complexity of developing machine learning algorithms, the use of pretrained models is very popular in the AI community. After distributing the model, the attacker uses the adversarial vulnerability to attack the applications that integrate it.

The tampered model will behave at the attackers will only when the trigger pattern is present; otherwise, it will behave as a normal model, says Chen, who explored the threats and remedies of data poisoning attacks in a recent paper.

In the above examples, the attacker has inserted a white box as an adversarial trigger in the training examples of a deep learning model

This kind of adversarial exploit is also known as a backdoor attack or trojan AI and has drawn the attention of Intelligence Advanced Research Projects (IARPA).

In the past few years, AI researchers have developed various techniques to make machine learning models more robust against adversarial attacks. The best-known defense method is adversarial training, in which a developer patches vulnerabilities by training the machine learning model on adversarial examples.

Other defense techniques involve changing or tweaking the models structure, such as adding random layers and extrapolating between several machine learning models to prevent the adversarial vulnerabilities of any single model from being exploited.

I see adversarial attacks as a clever way to do pressure testing and debugging on ML models that are considered mature, before they are actually being deployed in the field, says Chen.

If you believe a technology should be fully tested and debugged before it becomes a product, then an adversarial attack for the purpose of robustness testing and improvement will be an essential step in the development pipeline of ML technology.

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For years, artificial intelligence seemed on the cusp of becoming the next big thing in technology - but the reality never matched the hype. Now, the changes caused by the covid-19 pandemic may mean AI's moment is finally upon us.

Over the past couple of months, many technology executives have shared a refrain: Companies need to rejigger their operations for a remote-working world. That's why they have dramatically increased their spending on powerful cloud-computing technologies and migrated more of their work and communications online.

With fewer people in the office, these changes will certainly help companies run more nimbly and reliably. But the centralization of more corporate data in the cloud is also precisely what's needed for companies to develop the AI capabilities - from better predictive algorithms to increased robotic automation - we've been hearing about for so long. If business leaders invest aggressively in the right areas, it could be a pivotal moment for the future of innovation.

To understand all the fuss around artificial intelligence, some quick background might be useful: AI is based on computer science research that looks at how to imitate the workings of human intelligence. It uses powerful algorithms that digest large amounts of data to identify patterns. These can be used to anticipate, say, what consumers will buy next or offer other important insights. Machine learning - essentially, algorithms that can improve at recognizing patterns on their own, without being explicitly programmed to do so - is one subset of AI that can enable applications like providing real-time protection against fraudulent financial transactions.

Historically, AI hasn't fully lived up to its hype. We're still a ways off from being able to have natural, life-like conversations with a computer, or getting truly safe self-driving cars. Even when it comes to improving less advanced algorithms, researchers have struggled with limited datasets and a lack of scaleable computing power.

Still, Silicon Valley's AI-startup ecosystem has been vibrant. Crunchbase says there are 5,751 private-held AI companies in the U.S. and that the industry received $17.4 billion in new funding last year. International Data Corporation (IDC) recently forecast that global AI spending will rise to $96.3 billion in 2023 from $38.4 billion in 2019. A Gartner survey of chief information officers and IT leaders, conducted in February, found that enterprises are projecting to double their number of AI projects, with over 40% planning to deploy at least one by the end of 2020.

As the pandemic accelerates the need for AI, these estimates will most likely prove to be understated. Big Tech has already demonstrated how useful AI can be in fighting covid-19. For instance, Amazon.com partnered with researchers to identify vulnerable populations and act as an "early warning" system for future outbreaks. BlueDot, an Amazon Web Services startup customer, used machine learning to sift through massive amounts of online data and anticipate the spread of the virus in China.

Pandemic lockdowns have also affected consumer behavior in ways that will spur AI's growth and development. Take a look at the soaring e-commerce industry: As consumers buy more online to avoid the new risks of shopping in stores, they are giving sellers more data on preferences and shopping habits. Bank of America's internal card-spending data for e-commerce points to rising year-over-year revenue growth rates of 13% for January, 17% for February, 24% for March, 73% for April and 80% for May. The data these transactions generate is a goldmine for retailers and AI companies, allowing them to improve the algorithms that provide personalized recommendations and generate more sales.

The growth in online activity also makes a compelling case for the adoption of virtual customer-service agents. International Business Machines Corporation estimates that only about 20% of companies use such AI-powered technology today. But they predict that almost all enterprises will adopt it in the coming years. By allowing computers to handle the easier questions, human representatives can focus on the more difficult interactions, thereby improving customer service and satisfaction.

Another area of opportunity comes from the increase in remote working. As companies struggle with the challenge of bringing employees back to the office, they may be more receptive to AI-based process automation software, which can handle mundane tasks like data entry. Its ability to read invoices and update databases without human intervention can reduce the need for some types of office work while also improving its accuracy. UiPath, Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism are the three leading vendors in this space, according to Goldman Sachs, accounting for about 36% of the roughly $850 million market last year. More imaginative AI projects are on the horizon. Graphics semiconductor-maker NVIDIA Corporation and luxury automaker BMW Group recently announced a deal where AI-powered logistics robots will be used to manufacture customized vehicles. In mid-May, Facebook said it was working on an AI lifestyle assistant that can recommend clothes or pick out furniture based on your personal taste and the configuration of your room.

As with the mass adoption of any new technology, there will be winners and losers. Among the winners, cloud-computing vendors will thrive as they capture more and more data. According to IDC, Amazon Web Services was number one in infrastructure cloud-computing services, with a 47% market share last year, followed by Microsoft at 13%.

But NVIDIA may be at an even better intersection of cloud and AI tech right now: Its graphic chip technology, once used primarily for video games, has morphed into the preeminent platform for AI applications. NVIDIA also makes the most powerful graphic processing units, so it dominates the AI-chip market used by cloud-computing companies. And it recently launched new data center chips that use its next-generation "Ampere" architecture, providing developers with a step-function increase in machine-learning capabilities.

On the other hand, the legacy vendors that provide computing equipment and software for in-office environments are most at risk of losing out in this technological shift. This category includes server sellers like Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company and router-maker Cisco Systems, Inc.

We must not ignore the more insidious consequences of an AI renaissance, either. There are a lot of ethical hurdles and complications ahead involving job loss, privacy and bias. Any increased automation may lead to job reductions, as software and robots replace tasks performed by humans. As more data becomes centrally stored on the cloud, the risk of larger data breaches will increase. Top-notch security has to become another key area of focus for technology and business executives. They also need to be vigilant in preventing algorithms from discriminating against minority groups, starting with monitoring their current technology and compiling more accurate datasets.

But the upside of greater computing power, better business insights and cost efficiencies from AI is too big to ignore. So long as companies proceed responsibly, years from now, the advances in AI catalyzed by the coronavirus crisis may be one of the silver linings we remember from 2020.

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This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners. Kim is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology.

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Roto Brush 2 (above) makes masking easier in After Effects, while Premiere Rush and Pro will automatically reframe and detect scenes in videos.

Adobe has announced new features coming to its video post-production apps, on the date when it was supposed to be holding its Adobe Max Europe event in Lisbon, which was cancelled due to COVID-19.

These aren't available yet unlike the new updates to Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign but are destined in future releases. We would usually expect these to coincide with the IBC conference in Amsterdam in September or Adobe Max in October, though both of these are virtual events this year.

The new tools are based on Adobe's Sensei machine-learning technology. Premiere Pro will gain the ability to identify cuts in a video and create timelines with cuts or markers from them ideal if you've deleted a project and only have the final output, or are working with archive material.

A second-generation version of After Effects' Roto Brush enables you to automatically extract subjects from their background. You paint over the subject in a reference frame and the tech tracks the person or object through a scene to extract them.

Premiere Rush will be gaining Premiere Pro's Auto Reframe feature, which identify's key areas of video and frames around them when changing aspect ratio for example when creating a square version of video for Instagram or Facebook.

Also migrating to Rush from Pro will be an Effects panel, transitions and Pan and Zoom.

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IBMhas joined theSCTEISBE Explorer Initiativeas a member of the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) working group. IBM is the first company from outside the cable telecommunications industry to join Explorer.

IBM will collaborate with subject matter experts from across industries to develop AI and ML standards and best practices. By sharing expertise and insights fostered within their organizations, members will help shape the standards that will enable the wide-spread availability of AI and ML applications.

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Integrating advancements in AI and machine learning with the deployment of agile, open, and secure, software-defined networks will help usher in new innovations, many of which will transform the way we connect, saidSteve Canepa, global industry managing director, telecommunications, media & entertainment for IBM. The industry is going through a dramatic transformation as it prepares for a different marketplace with different demands, and we are energized by this collaboration. As the network becomes a cloud platform, it will help drive innovative data-driven services and applications to bring value to both enterprises and consumers.

SCTEISBE announced the expansion of its award-winning Standards program in lateMarch 2020with the introduction of the Explorer Initiative. As part of the initiative seven new working groups will bring together leaders with diverse backgrounds to develop standards forAI and ML, smart cities, aging in place and telehealth, telemedicine, autonomous transport, extended spectrum (up to 3.0 GHz), and human factors affecting network reliability. Explorer working groups were chosen for their potential to impact telecommunications infrastructure, take advantage of the benefits of cables10G platform,and improve societys ability to cope with natural disasters and health crises like COVID-19.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of technology and connectivity to modern society and by many accounts, increased the speed of digital transformation across industries, saidChris Bastian, SCTEISBE senior vice president and CTIO. Explorer will help us turn innovative concepts into reality by giving industry leaders the opportunity to learn from each other, reduce development costs, ensure their connectivity needs are met, and ultimately get to market faster.

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GPUs became the hardware of choice for deep learning largely by coincidence. The chips were initially designed to quickly render graphics in applications such as video games. Unlike CPUs, which have four to eight complex cores for doing a variety of computation, GPUs have hundreds of simple cores that can perform only specific operationsbut the cores can tackle their operations at the same time rather than one after another, shrinking the time it takes to complete an intensive computation.

It didnt take long for the AI research community to realize that this massive parallelization also makes GPUs great for deep learning. Like graphics-rendering, deep learning involves simple mathematical calculations performed hundreds of thousands of times. In 2011, in a collaboration with chipmaker Nvidia, Google found that a computer vision model it had trained on 2,000 CPUs to distinguish cats from people could achieve the same performance when trained on only 12 GPUs. GPUs became the de facto chip for model training and inferencingthe computational process that happens when a trained model is used for the tasks it was trained for.

But GPUs also arent perfect for deep learning. For one thing, they cannot function as a standalone chip. Because they are limited in the types of operations they can perform, they must be attached to CPUs for handling everything else. GPUs also have a limited amount of cache memory, the data storage area nearest a chips processors. This means the bulk of the data is stored off-chip and must be retrieved when it is time for processing. The back-and-forth data flow ends up being a bottleneck for computation, capping the speed at which GPUs can run deep-learning algorithms.

NEURAL MAGIC

In recent years, dozens of companies have cropped up to design AI chips that circumvent these problems. The trouble is, the more specialized the hardware, the more expensive it becomes.

So Neural Magic intends to buck this trend. Instead of tinkering with the hardware, the company modified the software. It redesigned deep-learning algorithms to run more efficiently on a CPU by utilizing the chips large available memory and complex cores. While the approach loses the speed achieved through a GPUs parallelization, it reportedly gains back about the same amount of time by eliminating the need to ferry data on and off the chip. The algorithms can run on CPUs at GPU speeds, the company saysbut at a fraction of the cost. It sounds like what they have done is figured out a way to take advantage of the memory of the CPU in a way that people havent before, Thompson says.

Neural Magic believes there may be a few reasons why no one took this approach previously. First, its counterintuitive. The idea that deep learning needs specialized hardware is so entrenched that other approaches may easily be overlooked. Second, applying AI in industry is still relatively new, and companies are just beginning to look for easier ways to deploy deep-learning algorithms. But whether the demand is deep enough for Neural Magic to take off is still unclear. The firm has been beta-testing its product with around 10 companiesonly a sliver of the broader AI industry.

We want to improve not just neural networks but also computing overall.

Neural Magic currently offers its technique for inferencing tasks in computer vision. Clients must still train their models on specialized hardware but can then use Neural Magics software to convert the trained model into a CPU-compatible format. One client, a big manufacturer of microscopy equipment, is now trialing this approach for adding on-device AI capabilities to its microscopes, says Shavit. Because the microscopes already come with a CPU, they wont need any additional hardware. By contrast, using a GPU-based deep-learning model would require the equipment to be bulkier and more power hungry.

Another client wants to use Neural Magic to process security camera footage. That would enable it to monitor the traffic in and out of a building using computers already available on site; otherwise it might have to send the footage to the cloud, which could introduce privacy issues, or acquire special hardware for every building it monitors.

Shavit says inferencing is also only the beginning. Neural Magic plans to expand its offerings in the future to help companies train their AI models on CPUs as well. We believe 10 to 20 years from now, CPUs will be the actual fabric for running machine-learning algorithms, he says.

Thompson isnt so sure. The economics have really changed around chip production, and that is going to lead to a lot more specialization, he says. Additionally, while Neural Magics technique gets more performance out of existing hardware, fundamental hardware advancements will still be the only way to continue driving computing forward. This sounds like a really good way to improve performance in neural networks, he says. But we want to improve not just neural networks but also computing overall.

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