AI Technology & Industry Review
Today, respected scientific journal Nature boosted the case for AGI with a cover story on a new research paper, Towards artificial general intelligence with hybrid Tianjic chip architecture, which aims to stimulate AGI development by adopting generalized hardware platforms.
Researchers at the Seattle Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) have proposed a Green AI initiative designed to make future AI research more energy efficient.
Today, the research division of the Chinese search giant released their updated ERNIE 2.0, a pretrained language understanding model with significant improvements.
A research team from Julia Computing and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology propose that extensive scientific computing and machine learning domains both require linear algebra support on their underlying structures.
This paper presents a new large-scale multilingual video description dataset, covering over 41,250 videos and 825,000 captions in both Chinese and English.
The Neural Architects Workshop gathers experts and researchers in the field of deep neural network (DNN) design to share their insights and experiences working in this domain.
Synced Global AI Weekly July 28th
A hot topic today is Intelligent Pilot Systems, an automotive driving concept comprising a smart vehicle assistant that enables a user to interact with the vehicle via voice; and intelligent mechanized function control for car entertainment, safety, autonomous driving and navigation.
The wait is over. This morning Huawei released its first 5G phone, the Mate 20 X 5G, in China. The phone was launched earlier this year in Switzerland and several other countries.
The new AI-powered Animate feature on Meitu’s signature selfie app brings still pictures to life with floral auras, resplendent butterflies, flowing hair, petal bursts, flame nebulas, fireworks and more.
Do you dream of Asuna Yuuki? Do you long to escape to a fantasy world with a beautiful anime partner? If so there’s a new artificial intelligence system just for you — the “Waifu Vending Machine” can create a highly customized anime companion in minutes.
Since Google Research introduced its Bidirectional Transformer (BERT) in 2018 the model has gained unprecedented popularity among researchers. Now, a group of researchers from the National Cheng Kung University Tainan in Taiwan are challenging BERT’s efficacy.
With recent developments in artificial intelligence and automation in machines, robots are advancing into previously unexplored industries such as music and entertainment.
Estimates peg the total number of academic papers and other scholarly literature indexed on the Google Scholar at almost 400 million, making it the world’s largest such database.
The Shibei·GMIS 2019 Global Machine Intelligence Summit, a top-tier Chinese artificial intelligence conference, took place July 19 – 20 at the Shanghai Marriott Hotel Parkview.
Google researchers have introduced a new face detection framework called BlazeFace, adapted from the Single Shot Multibox Detector (SSD) framework and optimized for inference on mobile GPUs.
Researchers from UC Berkeley and the Universities of Washington and Chicago have released a set of natural adversarial examples, which they call “ImageNet-A.”
Synced Global AI Weekly July 21st
This time next year an expected 10 million foreign visitors and millions of Japanese from Hokkaido to Okinawa will converge on the Tokyo Metropolis for the Games of the XXXII Olympiad.
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Google Brain have now proposed an unsupervised data augmentation (UDA) technique that significantly improves semi-supervised learning (SSL) by conducting data augmentation on unlabeled data.
The developers behind TabNine have introduced a new deep learning model, “Deep TabNine,” which significantly improves suggestion quality.
Researchers from Baidu Research, the University of Michigan, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have published a method for generating adversarial objects that can befuddle the LiDAR point cloud and compromise security in vehicles using the tech.
Two years ago Elon Musk launched a company called Neuralink. Musk already leads high-profile companies including Tesla, SpaceX, and Hyperloop, but Neuralink may be the 48 year-old entrepreneur’s most ambitious plan yet: to surgically connect human brains with artificial intelligence through an ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interface.
he rapid development of AI models such as variational autoencoders (VAE) and generative adversarial networks (GAN) that can generate audio, images and video has opened a Pandora’s box of digital fakery.
Have you ever shot a perfect video only to have it spoiled by an unsightly pedestrian, truck or other moving object passing through the frame? Although most people know how to crop or photoshop their photos to remove unwanted stuff, doing so with video is another matter entirely.
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have made another leap in the field with their Joint Language-to-Pose (JL2P) model, which generate animations from text input via a joint multimodal space comprising language and poses.
Although there are many means for identifying and locating a missing person — police and amber alerts, photos and biometrics such as fingerprints and even facial recognition — few of these resources are available for finding a lost dog, and about 75 percent of dogs in the USA are not microchipped.
Synced Global AI Weekly July 14th
Although natural language processing (NLP) has been around for decades, the recent and rapid rise of deep learning algorithms together with the increasing availability of massive amounts of text data are creating new and appealing opportunities for the tech across many industry sectors, including in the investment world.
Last month, Harvard Microrobotics Lab researchers introduced RoboBee X-Wing, a solar-powered micro-aerial vehicle that fits in the palm of your hand.
Artificial intelligence is having a revolutionary effect on industrial production. In the following article, Baidu Ventures Partner and Founder of Comet Labs Saman Farid shares his thoughts on recent changes and future trends in Machine learning-driven production philosophies and technologies.
Don’t simply “all in” if there’s a bot at your Texas hold’em poker table, because Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University’s new *Pluribus* AI system just beat five human pros at the same time — including a couple of World Series of Poker Champs.
Forerunners Google and NVIDIA announced today that they have set new AI training time records on the MLPerf benchmark competition.
Blizzard Entertainment, the American video game developer and publisher behind the StarCraft series, announced that AlphaStar will join the competitive ladder in Europe on the online gaming platform Battle.net, where it will play a limited number of games against human players.
Commercial research labs run by Google Research, DeepMind, and OpenAI are taking central stage in the artificial intelligence era. The eye-popping achievements of these massively-funded AI labs are constantly producing headlines in tech journals and even mainstream media.
Leading UK AI research company DeepMind has now proposed “BigBiGAN” (not BigBigGAN, but BigBiGAN), which achieves state-of-the-art results in both unsupervised representation learning on ImageNet and in unconditional image generation.
If you are a developer who has ever wished for a rich collection of machine learning algorithms implemented exclusively in NumPy, then you’ll love Numpy-ml — a new GitHub project that’s winning accolades from across the global machine learning community.
At last month’s RE•WORK Applied AI Summit 2019 in San Francisco, AI experts from Uber and Lyft shared insights on how the companies are leveraging machine learning algorithms to improve their services for both riders and drivers.
A group of researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Harbin Institute of Technology and Tencent have proposed a method to create such cartoon faces from photos of human faces via a novel CycleGAN model informed by facial landmarks.