Wednesday, 1 December 2021

VB Daily | December 1 - DeepMind exposes new mathematics technique using AI 🧮

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The Lead
[1] DeepMind claims AI has aided new discoveries and insights in mathematics 
[2] Amazon debuts IoT TwinMaker and FleetWise 
[3] Microsoft launches fully managed Azure Load Testing service 
The Follow
[1] DeepMind, the AI research laboratory funded by Google's parent company, Alphabet, today published the results of a collaboration with mathematicians to apply AI toward discovering new insights in areas of mathematics. DeepMind claims that its AI technology helped to uncover a new formula for a previously unsolved conjecture, as well as a connection between different areas of mathematics elucidated by studying the structure of knots.
"At DeepMind, we believe that AI techniques are already sufficient to have a foundational impact in accelerating scientific progress across many different disciplines," Alex Davies, DeepMind machine learning specialist, said in a statement. "Pure maths is one example of such a discipline, and we hope that [our work] can inspire other researchers to consider the potential for AI as a useful tool in the field."
What ostensibly sets DeepMind's work apart is its detection of the existence of patterns in mathematics with supervised learning — and giving insight into these patterns with attribution techniques from AI.
In a paper published in the journal Nature, DeepMind describes how it used AI to help discover a new approach to a longstanding conjecture in representation theory. >> Read more.
[2] Yesterday at its re:Invent 2021 conference, Amazon announced the Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT TwinMaker, a service designed to make it easier for developers to create digital twins of real-time systems like buildings, factories, industrial equipment, and product lines. The company also debuted AWS IoT FleetWise, an offering that makes it ostensibly easier and more cost-effective for automakers to collect, transform, and transfer vehicle data in the cloud in near-real-time.
With IoT TwinMaker, Amazon says that customers can leverage prebuilt connectors to data sources like equipment, sensors, video feeds, and business applications to automatically build knowledge graphs and 3D visualizations. IoT TwinMaker supplies dashboards to help visualize operational states and updates in real time, mapping out the relationships between data sources.
IoT FleetWise enables AWS customers to collect and standardize data across fleets of upwards of millions of vehicles. IoT FleetWise can apply intelligent filtering to extract only what's needed from connected vehicles to reduce the volume of data being transferred. Moreover, it features tools that allow automakers to perform remote diagnostics, analyze fleet health, prevent safety issues, and improve autonomous driving systems. >> Read more.
[3]  Microsoft is rolling out a fully managed load testing service for Azure, helping quality assurance testers and developers optimize their app's performance and scalability.
Load testing fits into the broader software performance testing and quality assurance sectors, which might include everything from cross-platform web testing to continuous profiling for cutting cloud bills — it's all about ensuring that an application is robust and optimized for every potential scenario, minimizing outages and downtime for software in production environments.
But as its name suggests, Azure Load Testing is designed with Azure customers in mind. This includes integrated Azure resource management and billing, and integrations with related products such as Azure Monitor, Microsoft's monitoring tool for applications, infrastructure, and networks.
"Azure Load Testing is designed from the ground up with a specific focus on Azure customers and delivering Azure-optimized capabilities," Mandy Whaley, Microsoft's partner director of product for Azure dev tools, told VentureBeat. >> Read more.
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The Buzz
Kevin Roose
The NYT Book Review asked me to review the new book on AI by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher.

I tried. But I got tired halfway through, so I asked the AI engine GPT-3 to help me finish it. https://t.co/MFWzEFYedp
Explainable AI...Xplained
As AI-powered technologies proliferate in the enterprise, the term "explainable AI" (XAI) has entered mainstream vernacular. XAI is a set of tools, techniques, and frameworks intended to help users and designers of AI systems understand their predictions, including how and why the systems arrived at them.
A 2020 IDC report found that business decision-makers believe explainability is a "critical requirement" in AI. Generally speaking, there are three types of explanations in XAI: Global, local, and social influence. 
  • Global explanations shed light on what a system is doing as a whole, as opposed to the processes that lead to a prediction or decision. They often include summaries of how a system uses a feature to make a prediction and "metainformation," such as the type of data used to train the system.
  • Local explanations provide a detailed description of how the model came up with a specific prediction. These might include information about how a model uses features to generate an output, or how flaws in input data will influence the output.
  • Social influence explanations relate to the way that "socially relevant" others — i.e., users — behave in response to a system's predictions. A system using this sort of explanation may show a report on model adoption statistics, or the ranking of the system by users with similar characteristics. 
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