Do you want to enrich your Python script with powerful text-generation capabilities? You’re in the right place!

What does it do? I just discovered DeepAI’s API that automatically generates a body of text, given a sentence fragment or topic keyword.

How can it be used? You can use this as a basis to generate text automatically.

My opinion: The generated text makes sense (kind of) but you may need to further process it or guide it to generate longer meaningful content. The biggest opportunity, in my opinion, is to use it as a step in a more complex pipeline towards the automatic generation of valuable content. On its own, it wouldn’t generate too much meaning (apart from the entertainment value of reading machine-generated text).

Python Deep API Call

Ready? So, let’s have a look at the short Python script that asks the machine learning model to generate text for you—given a certain keyword such as ‘intelligence’, ‘Donald Trump’, or ‘Learn Python’.

import requests

r = requests.post( "https://api.deepai.org/api/text-generator", data={ 'text': 'intelligence', }, headers={'api-key': 'quickstart-QUdJIGlzIGNvbWluZy4uLi4K'}

)

print(r.json()['output'])

You import Python’s standard library requests to issue web requests and access the DeepAI API that is hosted at the URL "https://api.deepai.org/api/text-generator".

Here’s the output the code snippet generated in my Python shell:

Automatically-Generated Text Example

Intelligence officials were able to confirm the existence of at least some Russian hacking operations, including the one apparent aimed at the White House.

The CIA brief, the statement said, “was made official by the Russian Government on the third assessment of a U.S. official that Russian Government officials had interfered in the 2016 presidential election. In my opinion, assertions that were made in the clear and unequivocal testimony of the public as well as in the public release on any of the Russian accounts were grossly improper, misleading, and should be seen to be completely absent from any official documents as well.”

It added: “In addition, the CIA’s assessment asserted the Russian Government’s claims were grossly misleading, misleading and misleading in their assertions. The CIA has concluded to date, including publicly, it has given credible facts to support the Russia’s claims, and there would be no justification for further claims, if such assertions are to be proven to be false.”

The CIA brief also claimed the CIA “should not” have “repeated, misleading details of Russian officials’ conduct.”

CIA spokeswoman Jane Harman told Fox News: “CIA Director John Brennan fully agrees that Director Brennan’s testimony confirms what we have heard from various intelligence agencies.

“He is clear that Director Brennan gave additional testimony to Congress on the subject, in the first instance in which he spoke frankly about the role of Russian intelligence.”

But Harman also said Brennan should have given “more proof” of “firm Russian intervention into the U.S. political environment” if such claims were to be believed about the same thing.

Brennan told me the U.S would “make public its best communications in Russia for all time.”

Brennan’s testimony was confirmed by CIA Director Gina Haspel.

Brennan’s public admission that the Clinton campaign was hacked “was, in fact, rejected by the CIA by the president,” the CIA brief said.

In a memo prepared to be published early Friday, CIA Director R. John Brennan outlined an intelligence assessment that a Russian national and political operative in the United States was responsible for leaking classified information to the Russian media and opposition leaders.

The CIA has denied the CIA’s assessment. But Brennan argued that the Russian “public claims are simply false assertions that are misleading, unconfirmed and improper.”

In the report, US intelligence provided more details to the National Security Council than a year ago, the first time in the United States that Russia was involved in the hack.

The CIA concluded that the Russian government hacked the DNC to help Trump and was trying to influence the 2016 election.

Russia has denied US attempts to influence the campaign. But President Obama, in a letter to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, said the US acted in “complete coordination with the Russian government” and “with Russian military officials, whom we have discussed with other countries.”

Russian election meddling and hacking of DNC were part of an international pattern of human rights violations in which countries have accused their governments of using disinformation to advance a political candidate and undermine a democratic election.

Dmitry Peskov, Russia’s president, said in December that the hacking was meant to interfere with the presidential election and may violate the election regulations.

“The cyberwar waged in this new Russia will not be stopped, the threats and security of the country will be the only legitimate measure,” he said, adding that the hackers “will have no chance to stop.”

The Russian state-sponsored cybercrime group F-Secure, which was based in Moscow, has claimed responsibility for a number of Russian cyber incidents that have been claimed by the United States, the Associated Press reports.

The Russian state-sponsored hacking groups include the computer firms Kaspersky Lab and DigiPG, both known for their malware and research programs, and the Moscow-based anti-virus firm Elemental.

The hacking groups have also said that as part of the election, they were targeting an array of Democratic political candidates.

The Russian military is responsible for the attack, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Russia is often accused of using cyber hacks for its own interests. In December 2016, an Obama administration official stated that “every step is worth watching carefully” in the war in Afghanistan in 2014.

But Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, a Russian citizen and former head of the Communist Party, has denied that Russian state-backed separatists used hacking to support the presidential elections.

“I call on all government officials and political parties to avoid interference and the international community to take up arms for the political and economic purposes of Russia. We are not engaged, and should not be used,” Putin said in a speech in Moscow in February.

He said the Kremlin is not to blame for a country’s cyber crimes against the country during the presidential election.

Putin also said that “there is nothing new or wrong with the election result.”

Short Discussion

You can see that the generated text is quite detailed and looks professional. But is it correct? And does it contain plagiarism? To check these questions, I checked it with Grammarly. Here’s the result:

The text has high writing quality and is original!

But it’s obviously fake news—otherwise, Grammarly should have found the quotes of “CIA officials”. That’s why I think that the powerful text-generation ability should be used in a pipeline or system that ensures to create some real value-add—rather than using it as a stand-alone tool.

Try It Yourself (Interactive Shell)

Challenge

Challenge: Find ways to create real value using the Python API call in a more advanced code snippet and share it with the Finxter community. You can contact me by signing up on the Finxter Email Academy:

I’ll share the results of this poll in a follow-up blog article—so, stay tuned!

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In 2016, as the United States emerged from a close and contentious national election, we published a blog on the need to find new ways for the country to move forward together. As we reflected that year on the election of Donald Trump, we started with a straightforward proposition, saying:

“Every president-elect deserves our congratulations, best wishes and support for the country as a whole. The peaceful transition of power has been an enduring and vital part of our democracy for over two centuries, and it remains so today.”

Four years later, these words are no less important. As we did in 2016, we offer today our congratulations to the new President- and Vice-President-Elect: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Election Day this year turned into a very long and tense election week, with many Americans glued to their screens anxiously awaiting the outcome. It has been commonplace to hear pundits speculate that we have seldom seemed such a divided country. If true, this also makes a different proposition even more self-evident. If we are to move forward as a nation, we must build new bridges to close the gaps that divide us.

At Microsoft, we believe that Americans share more common ground than many pundits acknowledge, particularly when it comes to technology issues. On many of these matters, there is an opportunity to separate policies from politics so we can make a real difference in people’s lives. Consider the following:

• A clear lesson from Covid-19 is that access to technology has become indispensable in an increasingly digital world. This starts with digital devices, but quickly extends to high-speed internet access. Broadband has become the electricity of the 21st century, vital for everything from patients needing telehealth consultations to children who are attending school from home. Today, too many rural families find there is no broadband service available, while too many underprivileged urban families find no broadband service that is affordable. A nation that would not tolerate millions of Americans living without electricity should no longer accept millions of families without broadband.
• Technology-fueled automation increasingly impacts all of our jobs. Digital tools, data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to make almost all of us in every job category more successful – but only if we have easier access to the new digital skills that are increasingly indispensable to the jobs of the future. This has become vital for first-line as well as knowledge workers, creating benefits for those in vital positions that range from health care to manufacturing to the nation’s retailers. Yet we enter the 2020s following two decades of declining and then stagnating employer investments in workforce training, and post-secondary education that has left too many students confronting debt without a degree. We need to make digital skills available to everyone.
• Across the political spectrum, Americans share not just a commitment to, but a reverence for, democracy. Yet the health of democracy today relies not just on individual acts of voting. It requires constant vigilance and an effective collective defense against cyber-based attacks on candidates and voting systems, and disinformation campaigns against the public itself. At Microsoft, this led us this election cycle to work across the political aisle to protect Republican and Democratic candidates alike. We conclude this election year even more convinced of the importance of using technology to protect not just the democratic process, but our fundamental freedoms. More than ever, we need ongoing technology innovation and stronger partnerships across the public and private sectors to better defend democracy.
• During a time when our daily lives rely so heavily on digital devices, trust in technology has become an issue of paramount importance. People of all political backgrounds care deeply about the privacy of their data and the security of their internet services. The questions around trust in technology continue to become even more multifaceted, now also including digital safety and responsible practices for AI. Yet we continue to live with a national electronic privacy law enacted in the dial-up era of the 1980s, and when it comes to issues such as safeguards for facial recognition, we have no national law at all. We need new laws fit for the future.
• Regardless of political party, people want our economy to prosper. The 20th century saw technology innovation not just spur productivity growth but spread its benefits broadly – to every state and to most industries, creating the foundation for a broadening middle class. As a company that provides so many productivity and other digital services for businesses of all sizes, we have a clear window into the need for a new and similar wave of broader productivity growth. We believe that technology innovation needs to create more business opportunities for every part of the economy as well as ushering in a new era for enhanced public sector services and efficiencies.

When we consider all these issues, it is apparent that there are opportunities to build new bridges between us and to strengthen the ties that bind us in common purpose. All these challenges are ripe for bipartisan collaboration and for government and industry cooperation.

This opportunity to build new bridges extends to the international arena as well. We live in a decade that has started with a virus that respects no border and carbon that moves in the atmosphere not just from country to country, but from continent to continent. More and more of the issues of our day require stronger collaboration between the United States and the rest of the world.

None of this means that the differences that divide Americans are unimportant. We live with different views on many fundamental issues. As a company, we have not shied away from controversies that we care about, whether they involve racial equity, immigration or climate change. Under each of the last two American presidents, we found that we were served best by efforts to partner where we can, while standing apart where we should. And we will continue with this approach.

Along the way, we have learned that we have far more opportunities to partner across the political spectrum than most people recognize. But we need to move from debates about why we cannot succeed to conversations about how we can. The more bridges we can cross together, the more we likely will find that Americans of all backgrounds in every state and county share far more in common than we currently appreciate.

As we look to the next four years, this should give us not only reason for hope, but cause for optimism.

Tags: 2020 elections, broadband access, COVID-19, Defending Democracy Program, rural broadband

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The NVIDIA game development team just announced the release of the RTX GPU optimized branch of Unreal Engine. The 4.25.4 branch of Unreal Engine is the most current as of time of writing. The NVIDIA RTX branch is all about bringing RTX hardware optimized raytracing performance to UE4.

Details of the release:

• Stability improvements
• Hitching improvements due to async shader management
• Transmissivity of light through foliage
• Several generic SW overhead reductions for RT setup
• Better culling default for instanced static meshes (foliage)
• Minor fixes for light culling in reflections
• Substantial improvements in GI and path tracing performance with high light counts
• Unreal Engine 4.25.4 Update

There is also a experimental caustics branch with the following features:

• The new hybrid translucency mode
• Multi-bounce refraction optimization
• Based on the latest NVIDIA RTX Branch
• Mesh and Water caustics feature

More details of NVIDIA Unreal Engine support are available here. In order to access the RTX branches available on GitHub you have to first link your GitHub account to your Unreal Engine account with details available here.