Hello Muppets! I hope you enjoyed the transformers from the last post. With this blog, we go a little further back in history, to 2014, the year of Ebola, Comet Landings, Germany… and GANs. Ian Goodfellow and his team came up with a new deep learning architecture, called Generative Adversarial […]
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Life’s OrigAImi; demystifying AlphaFold’s protein folding
A deep neural network developed by Google’s DeepMind has made a huge leap in the quest to solve the protein folding problem, one of the largest challenges in biology. The results of the algorithm, called AlphaFold, were revealed on 30 November during the Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (CASP) […]
It’s the attention, stupid!
For more than 50 years, the Muppets from Sesame Street taught children their language. Now, it’s time for Elmo, Bert and their friends to teach their wisdom to adults. As Sesame Street ended, they had to find a new job. With a CV that many starters would drool over with […]
Unboxing the Black Box
We all have had experience with neural networks being black boxes. With artificial intelligence and machine learning becoming so prevalent in seemingly every new technology, it is hard to keep track of how it actually works. With image recognition being used in a wide variety of applications- from face tracking […]
On Cybernetics and its influence on AI
In the first blog post of the “History of AI” series, we covered the founding event of Artificial Intelligence. In 1956, Artificial Intelligence was born as a discipline. Many events and discoveries have led to this, one of which is undoubtedly the publication of Wiener’s Book: “Cybernetics: Or Control and […]
Heart Wiring
– Why we should strive to make robots as empathic as humanly possible Slowly but surely robots are moving from an industrial setting into more interactive and social environments. To navigate social environments and social interactions, robots must successfully be able to interact with humans. Often these robots are modeled […]
Funny AI and When Things Go Wrong
For many of our readers, we just closed a very high-stress month: the exam period. Even for our non-student readers, there might still be a time where you just have recuperated from the holiday period and you are already working hard to achieve your new year’s resolutions or most likely […]
Seeing was Believing: Part 1
There is a tradition in the United Kingdom every year when Christmas arrives. The Queen addresses the nation on national television. But last year was a bit different. An “alternative” message was delivered by the Queen on BBC Channel 4 [1]. Let’s take a look: Given the astounding nature of […]
The Perceptron
By now, Deep Learning and Machine Learning have become synonymous with Artificial Intelligence. Neural networks seem to be what flour is to any baker. But it has not always been like this. In fact, there has been a period of time, where neural networks were considered useless for AI applications. […]
Diving into the Wave of the AI Job-Revolution
The AI revolution is here. What has been talked about for the last two decades is finally being realised. It’s here, with all its hype, and it is here to stay. Every company wants the proverbial slice of pie and wants to ingrain the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in […]