XAI - or explainable AI - a new buzz word

XAI or eXplainable AI, that's the new way of DARPA for addressing the problem that intelligence is about understanding, analysis, causality, prediction/planning etc. https://www.darpa.mil/program/explainable-artificial-intelligence That reflects or goes along with political tendencies which would limit the usage of CNN/RNN/Deep Learning systems when they can't give "reasonable" explanation of their decisions, for example in an automatic selection process. That article gives more info about the new laws:  http://www.kdnuggets.com/2017/08/deep-learning-not-ai-future.html The...

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Python thread "daemon" property may hang your console

A little discovery, while playing with some of Adrian's tutorials at Pyimagesearch involving a threaded web camera sampling. It seems that a thread shouldn't be declared as a "daemon", because after the script ends, a zombie  hangs the console where the Python process is executed. That's the specific example which was debugged: From : https://github.com/jrosebr1/imutils/blob/master/imutils/video/webcamvideostream.py from threading import Thread ... def start(self): # start the thread to read frames from the...

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Deep Learning tutorials, demos and study materials - CNN, RNN, OpenCV, Python

Sure, there's plenty of them which pop in the search results, but there you are some materials which I would suggest: 1. How Deep Neural Networks Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILsA4nyG7I0 2. How Convolutional Neural Networks work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmpDIaiMIeA Etc. from the same author. Pyimagesearch Check the latest posts in the Pyimagesearch blog for Computer vision. Using the latest OpenCV 3.3 there are powerful modules which allow to start playing with trained neural networks...

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