A Really Cool Drone with AI!

This is probably the best drone that I have ever seen. Enjoy the video!

DeepMind's AlphaGo Zero - An Astonishing Progress

This new development is exciting and scary at the same time. The progress of AI is moving at speed of light. We got one more step closer to General AI! The implication of this AI technology is profound!

Watch this video for more detailed technical explanation.

Machine Learning in Biology - Bioinformatics Opportunity

Hi AI Club People! How are you?

It's 5:00 pm, Thursday. The DOE semester grades window was just closed, and I finally finished everything about grading just minutes ago! I knew that some of you might be very disappointed, and some of you might still wonder whether the AI Club will still continue. I am so sorry for "disappearing" from the club for so long. Since we started the F1 activity by accident, I had been dragged into a series of crisis modes. I finally feel a little bit relief until this moment! 

Yes. I am back and we will continue! A few day ago, I got an email from Dr. Weigang Qiu (a Bioinformatics Professor in Hunter College) who I had worked with in Bioinformatics STEM project last year. He has been very interested in applying Machine Learning to Biological applications. Though we didn't make great progress on our side (STEM course) in the past year, they seem to have made many progresses. This summer, they are going to look into Machine Learning more seriously. Here is the link he sent me. He is also looking for some motivated students to take on 1-2 summer projects they are starting. I will discuss with him further about how we can involve. At the same time, if any AIers or your friends interested in participating in Bioinformatics research, please response to this post.

I feel that we should meet all together before summer (maybe next Tuesday or Wednesday?). What do you think? Please comment.

2017 STEM Show Case

Hi AIers,

You are invited to attend the 2017 STEM Showcase in which students will share their research and development results. It's a good opportunity to see some research projects being carry out in our school community.

Talks from Prominent AI Researchers

Jürgen Schmidhuber is the main developer of Long Short-Term Memory" (LSTM) Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). His witty talks in AI always attract lots of audience. Here is his short talk on "When creative machines overtake man".

Andrew Ng is a Machine Learning computer scientist. He is the former chief scientist at Baidu Research (Chinese version of Google) in Silicon Valley. He is an adjunct professor at Stanford University. Ng is also the co-founder and chairman of Coursera, an online education platform with more than 24 million registered users and more than 2,000 courses. Here is Andrew Ng's introduction of Deep Learning and its impact: "AI: The New Electricity".

 

Demis Hassabis founded DeepMind in September 2010. This small startup company without any physical products was acquired by Google in 2014 at the price more than 500 millions dollars. In March 2016, a program powered by DeepMind called AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol—a 9th dan Go player and one of the highest ranked players in the world—with 4-1 in a five-game match. Go is an ancient game that possesses more possibilities than the total number of atoms in the visible universe. Here is the DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis' talk on "Artificial Intelligence (AI) invents new knowledge and teaches human new theories".

You are encouraged to watch any video and post your notes. Enjoy the rest of your spring break!

Natural Wonders

Hello AIers,

Haven't meet you all for quite a while. How was your spring break so far? I just came back from a road trip covering over 1,740 miles and driving through 8 states. Here are some photos I'd like to share with you:

Luray Caverns, VA: A huge underground cave system

Various speleothems in the caverns

 

A mirrored pool called Dream Lake

Natural Bridge, VA: A 215 feet high arch with a span of 90 feet

Thomas Jefferson purchased the land including the Natural Bridge from King George III of England in 1774.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN

Observation tower at Clingmans Dome, TN (6,643 feet) is the highest point of the Great Smoky Mountains

Vistas form the observation tower at Clingmans Dome

Neural Networks By: Colleen McGuckin

https://docs.google.com/a/erhsnyc.net/presentation/d/15nmoPcXYwLXLfWYWIG2-NH_N8_dcpn1fliwa25rZq3Q/edit?usp=sharing

This is my presentation on Neural Networks, feel free to ask me questions about it, or if you find something else about neural networks, tell me and I can add to the slides!