A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them - Steve Jobs Here is an excerpt from the book The Long Tail by Chris Anderson: “In 1988, a British mountain climber named Joe Simpson wrote a book called ‘Touching the Void’, a harrowing account of near death in the Peruvian Andes. It got good reviews but, only a modest success, it was soon … [Read more...] about The Remarkable World of Recommender Systems
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Better Sentiment Analysis with BERT
Imagine you have a bot answering your clients, and you want to make it sound a little bit more natural, more human. To achieve that, you have to make the answers more personalized. One way to learn more about the customers you’re talking to is to analyze the polarity of their answers. By polarity here I mean detecting if the sentence (or group of sentences) is written with … [Read more...] about Better Sentiment Analysis with BERT
A Friendly Introduction to Data-Driven Marketing for Business Leaders
Introduction Marketing attribution has been around for many years, and as the number of available advertising channels continues to shift and expand, so do the strategies employed by teams to leverage those channels. In this blog post, I want to dive deep specifically into using machine learning models as opposed to heuristic models for marketing attribution across … [Read more...] about A Friendly Introduction to Data-Driven Marketing for Business Leaders
Top AI & ML Research Trends For 2020
The AI industry is moving so quickly that it’s often hard to follow the latest research breakthroughs and achievements. To help you stay well prepared for 2020, we have summarized the latest trends across different research areas, including natural language processing, conversational AI, computer vision, and reinforcement learning. We also suggest key research papers in … [Read more...] about Top AI & ML Research Trends For 2020
Breakthrough Research In Reinforcement Learning From 2019
Reinforcement learning (RL) continues to be less valuable for business applications than supervised learning, and even unsupervised learning. It is successfully applied only in areas where huge amounts of simulated data can be generated, like robotics and games. However, many experts recognize RL as a promising path towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), or true … [Read more...] about Breakthrough Research In Reinforcement Learning From 2019
An Ultimate Guide To Transfer Learning In NLP
Natural language processing is a powerful tool, but in real-world we often come across tasks which suffer from data deficit and poor model generalisation. Transfer learning solved this problem by allowing us to take a pre-trained model of a task and use it for others. Today, transfer learning is at the heart of language models like Embeddings from Language … [Read more...] about An Ultimate Guide To Transfer Learning In NLP
Top 12 AI Ethics Research Papers Introduced In 2019
As the importance of ethical considerations in AI applications is being recognized not only by ethicists and researchers but also by industry tech leaders, AI ethics research is moving from general definitions of fairness and bias to more in-depth analysis. The research papers introduced in 2019 define comprehensive terminology for communicating about ML fairness, go from … [Read more...] about Top 12 AI Ethics Research Papers Introduced In 2019
TOPBOTS Guide To NeurIPS 2019
This year’s Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing (NeurIPS 2019) will be held in Vancouver, Canada from December 8th to 14th, 2019. The popularity of this conference is growing rapidly, with the number of submitted papers getting to the record-breaking number of 6743, almost 40% more than last year. The TOPBOTS team is also going to NeurIPS again this year. To … [Read more...] about TOPBOTS Guide To NeurIPS 2019
10 Cutting-Edge Research Papers In Computer Vision From 2019
UPDATE: We’ve also summarized the top 2020 Computer Vision research papers. Today we can see how computer vision (CV) systems are revolutionizing whole industries and business functions with successful applications in healthcare, security, transportation, retail, banking, agriculture, and more. In 2019, we saw lots of novel architectures and approaches that … [Read more...] about 10 Cutting-Edge Research Papers In Computer Vision From 2019
10 Important Research Papers In Conversational AI From 2019
Conversational AI is becoming an integral part of business practice across industries. More companies are adopting the advantages chatbots bring to customer service, sales, and marketing. Even though chatbots are becoming a “must-have” asset for leading businesses, their performance is still very far from human. Researchers from major research institutions and tech leaders … [Read more...] about 10 Important Research Papers In Conversational AI From 2019