Posit AI Weblog: Introducing: The RStudio AI Weblog

Why the brand new identify, 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 thus far: technical or utilized points of performing deep
studying with TensorFlow and Keras. But, our crew (the Multiverse Crew) just isn’t
working completely 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 points 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 subject on this weblog, deep studying, we would additionally need to
replicate about it in a much less technical approach, focussing on impacts on
society, ethics, and even “simply” epistemic questions.

Consequently, we would have liked a brand new identify, however why “AI”? Possibly “knowledge science” would work
as nicely – nevertheless, the science in knowledge science brings up connotations of ritual and
theoretic ambitions which we’d slightly 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 present information about inference,
optimization, computation, and knowledge 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 objective 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 Crew consists of Daniel
Falbel, Sigrid
Keydana, Yitao
Li, and Javier
Luraschi.
You’ll find us on Twitter underneath the
#mlverse
tag, or cross by our new mlverse
channel on
YouTube. Thanks on 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/},
  12 months = {2020}
}