Why the brand new title, RStudio AI Weblog? There’s a easy motive. The
earlier title, “TensorFlow for R Weblog”, was a superb match for the content material
we lined up to now: technical or utilized facets of performing deep
studying with TensorFlow and Keras. But, our group (the Multiverse Workforce) isn’t
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 wish 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 would have liked a brand new title, however why “AI”? Perhaps “information science” would work
as properly – nonetheless, the science in information science brings up connotations of ritual and
theoretic ambitions which we might fairly keep away from. As an alternative, 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 data 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, laptop
science), the purpose of this new self-discipline is to incorporate steerage from the social sciences
and the humanities.
By the best way, as of this writing, the Multiverse Workforce consists of Daniel
Falbel, Sigrid
Keydana, Yitao
Li, and Javier
Luraschi.
You could find us on Twitter underneath the
#mlverse
tag, or move by our new mlverse
channel on
YouTube. Thanks on your help!
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@misc{team2020rstudioaiblog,
writer = {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}
}