Why the brand new identify, RStudio AI Weblog? There’s a simple purpose. The
earlier title, “TensorFlow for R Weblog”, was a superb match for the content material
we coated to this point: technical or utilized facets of performing deep
studying with TensorFlow and Keras. But, our group (the Multiverse Crew) shouldn’t be
working solely in these areas; as a substitute, enabling distributed computing from
R (sparklyr), integrating automated
machine studying workflows (mlflow), and
optimizing information ingestion (pins) are
substantial facets of what we do. We want to have a platform we will use
to inform you about our work in these areas as effectively. Moreover, relating to the
hitherto dominant matter on this weblog, deep studying, we’d additionally wish to
replicate about it in a much less technical manner, focussing on impacts on
society, ethics, and even “simply” epistemic questions.
Consequently, we would have liked a brand new identify, however why “AI”? Possibly “information science” would work
as effectively – nonetheless, the science in information science brings up connotations of ritual and
theoretic ambitions which we’d quite keep away from. As a substitute, AI gave the impression 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 information processing the best way that chemical engineering
and civil engineering constructed upon chemistry and physics, respectively.
Supplementing these constructing blocks (from arithmetic, statistics, pc
science), the purpose of this new self-discipline is to incorporate steering from the social sciences
and the humanities.
By the best way, as of this writing, the Multiverse Crew consists of Daniel
Falbel, Sigrid
Keydana, Yitao
Li, and Javier
Luraschi.
You will discover us on Twitter underneath the
#mlverse
tag, or move by our new mlverse
channel on
YouTube. Thanks to 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,
creator = {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/},
yr = {2020}
}
