FocusAI - Edition #85
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Edition #85 - December 17th 2021
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😶🌫️ How TikTok Reads Your Mind
An internal report produced by TikTok’s Beijing-based engineering team for nontechnical colleagues describes the short-form video streaming platform’s formula for recommending videos to particular users.
🏀 China-developed fast-learning AI equals human hold'em players
Chinese scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) program that is quick-minded and on par with professional human players in heads-up no-limit Texas hold'em poker.
🌊 This tiny AI-powered robot is learning to explore the ocean on its own
A new Caltech robot could use machine learning to navigate through turbulent and unknown terrains in the ocean.
🛩️ iRonCub: a humanoid robot is about to fly like Iron Man
The robot has four jet engines, and the shiny silver pants seen in the image above were used to prevent the robot from setting its legs on fire.
🎾 A robot playing table tennis after just 90 minutes of training
The researchers ran this simulation so that a machine learning algorithm could learn how the velocity and orientation of the racket affects the path the ball takes. The system used two cameras to track the location of the real ball every 7 milliseconds, and the algorithm processed the signals and decided where to move the robotic arm to hit and return the ball.
🚯 Twitch is using a machine learning model to identify trolls who try to get around being banned.
It unveiled Suspicious User Detection. The new feature alerts when it recognizes a banned user who has logged in under a new name.
✍️ Competition Launch: Feedback Prize - Evaluating Student Writing
Writing is a critical skill for success. However, less than a third of high school seniors are proficient writers, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. One way to help students improve their writing is via automated feedback tools, which evaluate student writing and provide personalized feedback. In this competition, you’ll identify elements in student writing. More specifically, you will automatically segment texts and classify argumentative and rhetorical elements in essays written by 6th-12th grade students. Prize money: $160,000.
#kaggle #china #TikTok #twitch #machinelearning
A big thanks to our sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/, http://www.china.org.cn/, https://newsopener.com/, https://www.newscientist.com/, https://www.kaggle.com/,https://safety.twitch.tv/
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