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This page is dedicated to posting artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and Natural Language Processing (NLP) industry insights from both our team and industry thought leaders, as well as interesting use cases, customer projects, announcements and news about Topos Labs.
NLP Practitioners: Are You Building a Ship or Just Chopping Wood?
The Vikings ruled the seas from 793–1066 AD with their now-famous long and durable ships. Their exceptional sailing and navigational skills made them a dominant force that changed the course of European history. But it was their technology and ship building mastery...
Can Non-Techies Use Artificial Intelligence?
Eighty-five percent of jobs that will exist in 2030 have not yet been created. Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the technologies influencing our future, including changing the way in which we access and analyze information in our everyday lives – business and...
Natural Language: Pavlov or Piaget?
Piaget Is Based on Building Blocks, While Pavlov Is More of a Response There are two approaches when it comes to using artificial intelligence (AI) to understand or interpret human language, and they can be explained based upon the cognitive theories of Russian...
Declaring Independence from AI Programming
The Fourth of July is a special US holiday for a few important reasons. First, it is a celebration of the birth of our nation filled with symbolism, patriotism, picnics, guilt-free potato salad binging, and lots of noisy fireworks. Secondly, it signifies the...
Overcoming the Pitfalls of Machine Learning with GLO
By: Christopher Stephenson and Dr. Russ Couturier Back in January many business analysts and data science pundits proclaimed 2019 would be the year that artificial intelligence went mainstream. And currently, all indicators appear to support this assertion. But as...
How Humanities Majors Can Takeover the Tech Industry
Machine Learning (ML) is an extremely powerful tool that, despite becoming more mainstream in recent months, has been distinctly out of reach for the average person. For my fellow low-techies, ML is an artificial intelligence (AI) technology that identifies and...
Network Better, Share a Cartoon
It happens, often by chance, that you strike a conversation with a stranger and a friendship or business relationship forms. In this instance, it was on a plane. I was really really curious about the man in the seat next to me. He was extremely well dressed, had the...
Grace Hopper: Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant
Grace Murray Hopper is known as the Queen of Code, the Mother of COBOL, and an overall pioneer in computer programming. She wore many hats, literally and figuratively, as a computer scientist, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, Doctor of Mathematics (Ph.D. Yale University),...
How Gracie Will Mercifully Render Me Obsolete
I have been an independent stock trader for the majority of my adult life. I have no formal finance education. I was an English major. Approaching stock evaluation from a linguistic standpoint, as it turns out, was a novel way to go about things. I quickly learned...
Overcoming the Limits of Machine Learning
Machine learning (ML) has been overhyped and has generally under-delivered. In fact, I would argue that the term itself is a misnomer. A more accurate name might be machine classification or machine filtering because what the technology actually does is label buckets...
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