This past two weeks AI Singapore announced the release of two free and open-source AI Bricks: PeekingDuck – a computer vision (CV) framework for inference that allows ANYONE with basic scripting and CV skills to quickly build up an end-to-end CV pipeline in as little as 4 lines of code. See PeekingDuck: A Computer Vision Framework | AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a buzzword for the last 5–6 years. However, it was at the famous Dartmouth College conference in 1956 that coined the phrase Artificial Intelligence. It is only recently that AI has reached a level of usefulness that has allowed it to gain its wide industry adoption. Many people are using AI-enabled
The classic management book Blue Ocean Strategy by Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne describes the business environment using the terms ’red ocean’ and ‘blue ocean’. Blue ocean strategy is the simultaneous pursuit of differentiation and low cost to open up a new market space and create new demand. It is about creating and capturing uncontested market space,
AI Singapore runs a very successful apprenticeship programme – the AI Apprenticeship Programme (AIAP). Started in 2018, the AIAP is now into its 6th batch of apprentices. More than 90% of our graduates secure an AI job before they complete the 9-month programme. More information about the AIAP programme can be found below. In short,
Big data, data science, machine learning, and now deep learning are all the rage and have tons of hype, for better—and in some ways, for worse. Advancements in AI such as language understanding, self-driving cars, automated claims, legal text processing, and even automated medical diagnostics are already here or will be here soon. In Asia,
If you want to build your AI team, unless you have the deep pockets of Google or Facebook, you need to find more creative ways to build up that AI/ML engineering talent. AI Singapore is a Singapore government funded programme hosted by the National University of Singapore which also means the salaries we can pay
Updated 3 Feb 2020 The AI Singapore’s AI Apprenticeship Programme (AIAP)™ is one of AI Singapore’s popular programme, with on average 120-160 applicants every time we open for an intake. It is also rumoured to be very hard to get into, according to friendly sources from the ground. This article will share what it takes
Last Friday (16th August 2019) we had AI Singapore’s (AISG) AI Apprenticeship Programme (AIAP)™ batch #2 graduate after 9 months of training, which consisted of 2-months of intense self-directed learning and ten 3-weeks sprints which they delivered a minimum viable AI model to our 100E* project sponsors. With this batch, AI Singapore Industry Innovation team
Four public AI for Kids (AI4K™) workshops were recently conducted during the June school holidays. With support from Facebook and the National Library Board (NLB), 120 enthusiastic participants had a good and enriching time learning and creating basic AI solutions. And to promote inter-generational learning, 18 Singaporean PMETs were selected as the pilot batch of
This is an excellent book for those that studied AI 10, 20 or 30 years ago, and need a quick weekend refresher course. In 100-pages, the author takes the reader through the basics of machine learning with sufficient maths of the core algorithms and neural networks. I would not recommend this book if you have
