Artificial Intelligence for Everyone Weekly Update | November 22nd, 2017
Privacy and Machine Learning, Can They Coexist? The Catch-22 of Open Source, Privacy, and the Ever Growing Need for Training Data.
Machine learning relies upon vast amounts of training data. In fact, for key voice technologies, estimates suggest that around 10,000 hours of audio is required to get a decent speech to text engine. That is the equivalent of nearly 5 years of someone talking 40 hours a week.
Machine learning is integral whenbuilding a strong AI--but we're firm believers that privacy
is a basic human right. So how can open source companies bridge the gap?
Enter - The Open
Data Set. Our last release gives our users the ability to choose whether they want to contribute their voice recordings. If they later opt-out, we'll delete the data.
Development Progress for the Week Here's some development and skill updates. Find them in their Github links below.
Plasmoid Control Skill
For the Gnome fans among us, Community Developer, Aditya Mehtra, better known as @AIIX, has released a Skill which allows you to control the Mycroft Plasmoid via voice. This requires that you already have Plasmoid installed. Love your work, @AIIX!
This Skill is a 'beginner' Skill from a new Community Developer, @normandmickey, who developed this Skill to be able to listen to internet radio. This is one of the first Skills to use the new Skill Settings - web-configurable settings that allow you to have more control over how your Skills operate.
Mycroft
Developer, Michael Nguyen, has made significant improvements to the Timer Skill. The Skill will now sound a beep when the timer is finished, and you can name timers individually.
What's a Capsule Network? Hinton (one of the founders of deep learning) and his team published two papers on capsule networks. Read up on what they are, and how they stand to change applications and research in the near future.
Holiday Gifts for Open Source Enthusiasts Maybe you need a gift for the open source guru in your life. Maybe you're that guru--in which case, here's a list of things to gift yourself.
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