Year-in-Review: 2018 AI Index Report Out!

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2018 AI Index Report: AI Job Openings Surge 35X Since 2015
To help interested parties stay abreast of all that’s happening in AI, a team of researchers and experts from top institutions — including Stanford, MIT, OpenAI, SRI International and others — have published the 2018 AI Index Report, which delves into the data behind the tech to track its global growth.
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NYU AI Now Report 2018 
The past year has seen accelerated integration of powerful artificial intelligence systems into core social institutions, against a backdrop of rising inequality, political populism, and industry scandals. There have been major movements from both inside and outside technology companies pushing for greater accountability and justice.
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2018 in Review: 10 AI Failures
AI has achieved remarkable progress, and many scientists dream of creating the Master Algorithm proposed by Pedro Domingos — which can solve all problems envisioned by humans. It’s unavoidable however that researchers, fledgling technologies and biased data will also produce blunders not envisioned by humans.
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The 18 Biggest Computer Science Stories of 2018
Now while “juul” might not be a programming language decades from now, over the last year there’s been plenty of words that took on new meanings. From the massive Intel security flaw “Meltdown” to Google’s “Duplex” AI, there’s been no shortage of big stories in computer science this year. In no particular order, here are 18 of the highlights from 2018.
(MIT CSAIL)

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Technology

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GAN 2.0: NVIDIA’s Hyperrealistic Face Generator
The NVIDIA paper proposes an alternative generator architecture for GAN that draws insights from style transfer techniques. The system can learn and separate different aspects of an image unsupervised; and enables intuitive, scale-specific control of the synthesis.
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Open-sourcing PyText for Faster NLP Development
To make it easier to build and deploy natural language processing (NLP) systems, we are open-sourcing PyText, a modeling framework that blurs the boundaries between experimentation and large-scale deployment. PyText is a library built on PyTorch, our unified, open source deep learning framework.
(Facebook AI)

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How AI Training Scales
OpenAI discovered that the gradient noise scale, a simple statistical metric, predicts the parallelizability of neural network training on a wide range of tasks. Since complex tasks tend to have noisier gradients, increasingly large batch sizes are likely to become useful in the future, removing one potential limit to further growth of AI systems.
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Deep Learning for Classical Japanese Literature 
In this work, the research team introduces Kuzushiji-MNIST, a dataset which focuses on Kuzushiji (cursive Japanese), as well as two larger, more challenging datasets, Kuzushiji-49 and Kuzushiji-Kanji. Through these datasets, we wish to engage the machine learning community into the world of classical Japanese literature.
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Alibaba Healthcare AI Targets Macau’s Flu Season
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