Why the brand new identify, RStudio AI Weblog? There’s a simple motive. The
earlier title, “TensorFlow for R Weblog”, was an excellent match for the content material
we lined to this point: technical or utilized features of performing deep
studying with TensorFlow and Keras. But, our workforce (the Multiverse Crew) isn’t
working solely in these areas; as a substitute, enabling distributed computing from
R (sparklyr), integrating automated
machine studying workflows (mlflow), and
optimizing knowledge ingestion (pins) are
substantial features of what we do. We want to have a platform we are able to use
to inform you about our work in these areas as properly. Moreover, relating to the
hitherto dominant subject on this weblog, deep studying, we would additionally wish to
mirror about it in a much less technical means, focussing on impacts on
society, ethics, and even “simply” epistemic questions.
Consequently, we wanted a brand new identify, however why “AI”? Perhaps “knowledge science” would work
as properly – nevertheless, the science in knowledge science brings up connotations of ritual and
theoretic ambitions which we’d reasonably keep away from. As an alternative, AI seemed to be a extra rigorous
definition, understood as outlined in an article by Michael
Jordan. Jordan envisions AI as a
new engineering self-discipline that builds on current information about inference,
optimization, computation, and knowledge processing the way in which that chemical engineering
and civil engineering constructed upon chemistry and physics, respectively.
Supplementing these constructing blocks (from arithmetic, statistics, pc
science), the aim of this new self-discipline is to incorporate steering from the social sciences
and the humanities.
By the way in which, as of this writing, the Multiverse Crew consists of Daniel
Falbel, Sigrid
Keydana, Yitao
Li, and Javier
Luraschi.
Yow will discover us on Twitter beneath the
#mlverse
tag, or move by our new mlverse
channel on
YouTube. Thanks in your assist!
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Crew (2020, March 30). Posit AI Weblog: Introducing: The RStudio AI Weblog. Retrieved from https://blogs.rstudio.com/tensorflow/posts/2020-04-01-rstudio-ai-blog/
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@misc{team2020rstudioaiblog,
writer = {Crew, The Multiverse},
title = {Posit AI Weblog: Introducing: The RStudio AI Weblog},
url = {https://blogs.rstudio.com/tensorflow/posts/2020-04-01-rstudio-ai-blog/},
12 months = {2020}
}
