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Data science and ML for human well-being with Jina Suh
Using technology to help us improve our health is nothing new: a quick web search returns hundreds of apps and devices claiming to help us get fit, quit smoking, master anxiety or just “find our center.” What is new is…
Machine teaching with Dr. Patrice Simard
Episode 78, May 29, 2019- Machine learning is a powerful tool that enables computers to learn by observing the world, recognizing patterns and self-training via experience. Much like humans. But while machines perform well when they can extract knowledge from…
In the news | The AI Blog
Machine teaching: How people’s expertise makes AI even more powerful
As the desire to use AI for more scenarios has grown, Microsoft scientists and product developers have pioneered a complementary approach called machine teaching. This relies on people’s expertise to break a problem into easier tasks and give machine learning…
In the news | Fast Company
Machine Teaching is a thing, and Microsoft wants to own it
Microsoft is rallying behind ‘machine teaching,’ and it’s loosely defined by Microsoft as a set of tools that human experts in any field can use to train AI on their own.
In the news | The AI Blog
Machine teaching: How people’s expertise makes AI even more powerful
Most people wouldn’t think to teach five-year-olds how to hit a baseball by handing them a bat and ball, telling them to toss the objects into the air in a zillion different combinations and hoping they figure out how the…