UK Researchers Say AI Needs More Animal Sense
The researchers identify just how much AI research might benefit from the field of animal cognition.
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Google Open-Sources 3D System That Shows How Places Looked in the Past
Google AI recently launched the open-source browser-based toolset “rǝ,” which was created to enable the exploration of city transitions from 1800 to 2000 virtually in a three-dimensional view.
Beijing to Open 100 Unmanned Taxi Stations
Self-driving taxis began to fully operate in Beijing and the weekly number of orders per day during the peak period has exceeded 2,600.
Singapore Computer Society Publishes Guide on AI Ethics & Governance Body of Knowledge
Singapore Computer Society (SCS) published AI Ethics & Governance Body of Knowledge document, to build on the Singapore government’s voluntary framework for the responsible AI use.
Uber to Establish $150 Million Joint Venture with SK Telecom to Expand in South Korea
South Korea’s SK Telecom plans to split up its ride-hailing department “T Map Mobility” by the end of this year, to create a service company with more than 200,000 drivers and 750,000 taxi users per month.
China’s Automatic Agricultural Equipment and System Sales Increased By 213% YoY in 1H 2020
From January to June 2020, China sold more than 11,700 sets of automatic agricultural machinery and systems, a year-on-year increase of 213 percent.
MIT, TU Wien & IST Austria Brain-Based AI Self-Drives With Just a Few Neurons
An international research team is suggesting AI might become even more efficient and reliable if it learns to think more like worms.
Facebook & CMU Open Catalyst Project Applies AI to Renewable Energy Storage
A new Facebook AI and CMU renewable energy storage project could enable labs to perform days of electrocatalyst screening and calculations in just seconds.
MIT Researcher Neil Thompson on Deep Learning’s Insatiable Compute Demands and Possible Solutions
“The Computational Limits of Deep Learning” first author Neil Thompson of MIT says DL’s economic and environmental footprints are growing worrying fast
Singapore Tops in AI Investment as Input Gaps Between ASEAN Countries Widen
Singapore is the number one among ASEAN countries to invest in AI, with $68 worth of AI investment per capita last year.
Usama Fayyad Appointed Head of Northeastern University’s Institute of Experiential Artificial Intelligence
Northeastern University’s Institute of Experiential Artificial Intelligence appointed AI guru and entrepreneur Usama Fayyad as the new executive director.
NeurIPS 2020 Workshop | Indie GAN Interpolation Method Turns Selfies Into Cartoon Characters
Pinkney and Adler NeurIPS 2020 workshop paper enables realistic image generation in domains such as animation and ukiyo-e with creative control on the output.
Apple ‘Hi, Speed’ Event: 5G, A14 Bionic Chip, and LiDAR for New iPhones
Apple today announces that its new iPhone series will also use the company’s newest A14 Bionic chipset.
ICLR 2021 Submission: Deeper VAEs Excel on Natural Image Benchmarks
ICLR 2021 submitted paper proposes efficient VAEs that outperform PixelCNN-based autoregressive models in log-likelihood on natural image benchmarks.
Shanghai Forges Strategic Partnerships with Alibaba and Ant Group on R&D for Mega-City Applications
The Shanghai Municipal Government signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Alibaba Group and Ant Group, to expedite the development of a new online economy.
ByteDance High-Resolution AMT System Achieves SOTA in Piano Note and Pedal Transcription
ByteDance introduces a high-resolution piano transcription system trained by regressing the precise onset and offset times of piano notes and pedals.
PwC-Powered Code Tab Added to arXiv ML Papers
PwC and arXiv jointly announced their partnership yesterday, unveiling a convenient new Code tab on the abstract page of arXiv Machine Learning articles.
‘Farewell Convolutions’ – ML Community Applauds Anonymous ICLR 2021 Paper That Uses Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
ICLR 2021 paper An Image Is Worth 16×16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale suggests Transformers can outperform top CNNs on CV at scale.
Google, Stanford, & MIT Top NeurIPS 2020 Accepted Papers List
NeurIPS 2020 released its list of accepted papers this week with Google, Stanford, and MIT as the top affiliations.
Breakthrough Neuron-Mimicking Nanoscale Electronic Circuit Element for Neuromorphic AI
Researchers introduce an isolated nanoscale electronic circuit element that can perform nonmonotonic operations and transistorless all-analogue computations.
NVIDIA & Mass General Brigham Hospital Federated Learning Project Predicts COVID-19 Patient Oxygen Need Using 20 Days of Data From 20 Hospitals
NVIDIA, Mass General Brigham and 20 global hospitals launch federated learning initiative EXAM to build AI model for COVID-19 patient oxygen need prediction
Jenson Huang’s Kitchen Keynote Outlines NVIDIA’s Vision for the ‘Age of AI’
The GTC kicked off with the release of nine Nvidia keynote video with major announcements in data centers, edge AI, collaboration tools and healthcare.
Google AI Helps Sign Language ‘Take the Floor’ in Video Conferences
Google AI researchers developed a sign language detection model for video conferencing applications that can perform real-time identification of a person signing as an active speaker.
LPar – A Distributed Multi Agent Platform for Building Polyglot, Omni Channel and Industrial Grade Natural Language Interfaces
LPar, a distributed multi agent platform for large scale industrial deployment of polyglot, diverse and inter-operable agents.
Google AI ‘Looking to Listen’ Tech Enables Speech Enhancement on YouTube Stories in Seconds
Google AI has announced a new audiovisual speech enhancement feature in YouTube Stories (iOS) that enables creators to make better selfie videos by automatically enhancing their voices and reducing noise.
Google, Cambridge, DeepMind & Alan Turing Institute’s ‘Performer’ Transformer Slashes Compute Costs
A team from Google, University of Cambridge, DeepMind, and Alan Turing Institute have proposed a new type of Transformer dubbed Performer, based on a Fast Attention Via positive Orthogonal Random features (FAVOR+) backbone mechanism.
EvolGAN Boosts Image Quality for Small or Difficult Datasets
Novel model uses a quality estimator and evolutionary optimization to search the latent space of GANs trained on limited datasets.
Nvidia Releases ‘Imaginaire’ Library for Image and Video Synthesis
Imaginaire, a universal PyTorch library designed for various GAN-based tasks and methods.
Facebook’s Dynabench ‘Radically Rethinks AI Benchmarking’
Facebook researchers introduced a new research platform for dynamic data collection and benchmarking called Dynabench, which will offer a more accurate and sustainable way for evaluating progress in AI.
PyTorch / XLA Library Reaches General Availability on Google Cloud
It was announced yesterday in a PyTorch blog post that the PyTorch / XLA library, a package that enables PyTorch to connect to Google TPUs and use TPU cores as devices, is now generally available on Google Cloud, with support for a broad set of entry points for developers.
Facebook’s Flexible ‘RAG’ Language Model Achieves SOTA Results on Open-Domain QA
Researchers introduced retrieval-augmented generation - a hybrid, end-to-end differentiable model that combines an information retrieval component with a seq2seq generator.
AI and Smart City Societies Signed MoU to Boost Innovations in Bahrain
A memorandum of understanding was signed between the Bahrain-based Artificial Intelligence Society and Bahrain Smart City Society to accelerate digital transformation in the country.
101 Telecom Operators Worldwide Have Launched 5G Commercial Services; 397 Are Investing
101 operators worldwide have launched one or more 5G commercial services that comply with 3GPP standards in 44 countries or regions.
Japan Builders and Tech Companies Ready to Launch Autonomous Ships by 2025
A consortium of 40 Japanese shipbuilders, shipping companies and tech firms have gathered to produce self-navigating shipping vessels.
Google Introduces TensorFlow Recommenders, ‘Helping Users Find What They Love’
Google Brain recently introduced a new open-sourced TensorFlow package, TensorFlow Recommenders designed to simplify the process of building, evaluating, and serving sophisticated recommender models.
Polish Mobile Robot Startup VersaBox Receives Euro 2.5 Million
Warsaw-based robotics startup VersaBox received €2.5 million from VC funds EVC, SpeedUp Energy Innovation, Movens Capital, and RST Ventures for Earth.
“Top 500 Chinese Enterprises” Report: Baidu, Huawei and NetEase Rank Top Three in R&D
In 2020, the average R&D intensity of the top 500 Chinese companies has increased for three consecutive years and bounced back to the highest level in history.
US and UK to Forge Partnership in Artificial Intelligence
The Trump administration will announce partnership with the UK on research and development of AI, including issues of explainability and fairness.
Counterpoint: Average Global Price of Smartphones Have Risen by 10 Percent; China’s 5G Phone Shipments Have Increased Sharply
In the second quarter of 2020, increase of 5G phone shipments prompted the average selling price of global smartphone market to increase by 10 percent.
AI Is Making Robots More Fun
The market size of physical and interactive social and entertainment robots is expected to hit US$3.7 billion by 2023.