Cognitive computing makes a new class of problems computable. To respond to the fluid nature of users understanding of their problems, the cognitive computing system offers a synthesis not just of information sources but of influences, contexts, and insights. These systems differ from current computing applications in that they move beyond tabulating and calculating based on pre-configured rules and programs. They can infer and even reason based on broad objectives. In this sense, cognitive computing is a new type of computing with the goal of more accurate models of how the human brain or mind senses, reasons, and responds to stimulus. It is a field of study which studies how to create computers and computer software that are capable of intelligent behavior. This field is interdisciplinary, in which a number of sciences and professions converge, including computer science, electronics, mathematics, statistics, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience and biology. Project Features are Adaptive: They MUST learn as information changes, and as goals and requirements evolve. They MUST resolve ambiguity and tolerate unpredictability. They MUST be engineered to feed on dynamic data in real time; Interactive: They MUST interact easily with users so that those users can define their needs comfortably. They MUST interact with other processors, devices, services, as well as with people; Iterative and Stateful: They MUST aid in defining a problem by asking questions or finding additional source input if a problem statement is ambiguous or incomplete. They MUST remember previous interactions in a process and return information that is suitable for the specific application at that point in time; Contextual: They MUST understand, identify, and extract contextual elements such as meaning, syntax, time, location, appropriate domain, regulation, user profile, process, task and goal. They may draw on multiple sources of information, including both structured and unstructured digital information, as well as sensory inputs (visual, gestural, auditory, or sensor-provided). {A set of cognitive systems is implemented and demonstrated as the project J+O=Y}

Reinforcement Learning algorithms becoming more and more sophisticated every day which is evident from the recent win of AlphaGo and AlphaGo Zero (https://deepmind.com/blog/alphago-zero-learning-scratch/ ). OpenAI has provided toolkit openai gym for research and development of Reinforcement Learning algorithms.

In this workshop, we will focus on introduction to the basic concepts and algorithms in Reinforcement Learning and hands on coding.

Content

• Introduction to Reinforcement Learning Concepts and teminologies
• Setting up OpenAI Gym and other dependencies
• Introducing OpenAI Gym and its APIs
• Implementing simple algorithms using couple of OpenAI Gym Environments
• Demo of Deep Reinforcement Learning using one of the OpenAI Gym Atari game

Apparently, Entertainment is a pure art form, but there's a huge bit that science can back the art. AI can drive multiple human intensive works in the Media Industry, driving the gut based decision to data-driven-decisions. Can we create a promo of a movie through AI? How about knowing which part of the video causing disengagement among our audiences? Could AI help content editors? How about assisting script writers through AI?

i will talk about few specific experiments done specially on Voot Original contents- on binging, hooking, content editing, audience disengagement etc.

Nowadays many apps and social networking sites are dealing with large number of images which lead to huge storage cost and problem in surfacing those images on client machine in case of bad/low network speed. In this talk we will present how can we achieve low bpp using RNNs.