Why the brand new title, RStudio AI Weblog? There’s a simple purpose. The
earlier title, “TensorFlow for R Weblog”, was a great match for the content material
we coated to this point: technical or utilized facets of performing deep
studying with TensorFlow and Keras. But, our workforce (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 want to have a platform we will use
to let you know about our work in these areas as properly. Moreover, relating to the
hitherto dominant matter on this weblog, deep studying, we’d additionally need to
mirror about it in a much less technical manner, focussing on impacts on
society, ethics, and even “simply” epistemic questions.
Consequently, we wanted a brand new title, however why “AI”? Possibly “information science” would work
as properly – nevertheless, the science in information science brings up connotations of ritual and
theoretic ambitions which we’d somewhat keep away from. As a substitute, 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 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 aim 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 Workforce consists of Daniel
Falbel, Sigrid
Keydana, Yitao
Li, and Javier
Luraschi.
You’ll find us on Twitter beneath the
#mlverse
tag, or go 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}
}