Posit AI Weblog: Introducing: The RStudio AI Weblog

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 date: technical or utilized features of performing deep
studying with TensorFlow and Keras. But, our crew (the Multiverse Workforce) will not 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 features of what we do. We want to have a platform we are able to use
to let you know about our work in these areas as nicely. Moreover, concerning the
hitherto dominant matter on this weblog, deep studying, we’d additionally need 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 “information science” would work
as nicely – nonetheless, the science in information science brings up connotations of ritual and
theoretic ambitions which we might slightly 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 present data about inference,
optimization, computation, and information processing the way in which that chemical engineering
and civil engineering constructed upon chemistry and physics, respectively.
Supplementing these constructing blocks (from arithmetic, statistics, laptop
science), the objective 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 Workforce consists of Daniel
Falbel, Sigrid
Keydana, Yitao
Li, and Javier
Luraschi.
You’ll find us on Twitter underneath the
#mlverse
tag, or go by our new mlverse
channel on
YouTube. Thanks in your assist!

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Workforce (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 = {Workforce, 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}
}