Synced Tradition and Machine Learning Series | Part 2: Optimization Basics
This is the second in a special Synced series of introductory articles on traditionally theoretical fields of studies and their impact on modern-day machine learning.
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Drift with Devil: Security of Multi-Sensor Fusion based Localization in High-Level Autonomous Driving under GPS Spoofing
This paper is the first to systematically study the security of Multi-Sensor Fusion (MSF) based localization in high-autonomy Autonomous Vehicles (AVs). Researchers design FusionRipper, a novel and general attack that opportunistically captures and exploits take-over vulnerabilities.
CHI 2021 | ‘AI as Play’ Challenges the Productivity-Based Human-AI Interaction Paradigm
Researchers from Drexel University, Northeastern University and IT University Copenhagen explore how humans interact with AI in such contexts, with a focus on computer games.
Stanford Study Says Higher ImageNet Performance Does Not Improve Medical Image Interpretation
In a new paper, Stanford University researchers dispel the assumption that boosting deep learning model performance on ImageNet translates to better performance on medical imaging tasks.
Google Creates New SOTA Text-Image Generation Framework
Synced invited Dr. Linchao Zhu, a lecturer at the ReLER lab, University of Technology Sydney whose works focus on video representation learning, to share his thoughts on the paper Text-to-Image Generation Grounded by Fine-Grained User Attention.
South Korea’s Gwangju City Applies AI to City Governance
According to reports on January 20, South Korea’s Gwangju is adopting integrated AI technology to help with city governance.
McGill Researchers Use AI to Manage Extreme Weather Events
On January 18, in efforts to understand and manage extreme weather events, McGill University announced a new interdisciplinary project to combine deep learning (DL) with social network analysis (SNA).
‘Papers-With-Video’ Browser Extension Adds Video Access to arXiv
A Nepalese machine learning (ML) researcher has introduced a handy browser extension that lets users directly access videos related to research papers published on the popular preprint platform arXiv.
Trump Administration Cuts Off Licenses for Huawei Chips Suppliers Including Intel
According to a report from Reuters, the Trump administration has notified Intel among others, that their supplier licenses to Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei have been revoked.
Kenyan-Developed APP Utilizes ML to Predicate the Migration and Breeding of Locusts
Kuzi is using satellite data, soil sensor data, ground meteorological observation and machine learning technology trained on predict the locusts’ breeding, appearance and migration routes.
ICLR 2021 | UT Austin Training-Free Framework Performs High-Quality NAS on ImageNet in Four GPU Hours
Researchers from the University of Texas, Austin have proposed a novel framework called Training-Free Neural Architecture Search (TE-NAS) for “training-free” neural architecture search.
Max Planck Institute & Facebook Model Performs Human Re-Rendering From a Single Image
In a new paper, researchers from Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Facebook Reality Labs propose an end-to-end trainable method that enables re-rendering of humans from one single image.
Germany launches“AI Breakthrough Hub” funded by the federal and state governments and Hector Foundation
The German Federal government and the State of Baden-Württemberg pledged new AI funding schemes for an “AI breakthrough hub”.
South Korea Expands AI Caregiver Service to Protect Socially Vulnerable Groups
South Korea’s Seodaemun-gu will expand the number of “artificial intelligence (AI) caregiver service” target from 200 to 450 from next month.
Toyota and Stanford University Join Hands to Research on Automotive Safety Improvements
Researcher from Toyota Research Institute announce joint efforts with Stanford’s Dynamic Design Lab, to research on automotive safety improvements.
Will Humans Be Able to Control Superintelligent AI? New Study Says ‘No’
A paper in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research goes a step further, warning that it could become fundamentally impossible to control a superintelligent AI.
Google Brain’s Switch Transformer Language Model Packs 1.6-Trillion Parameters
Google Brain’s Switch Transformer language model packs a whopping 1.6 trillion parameters while effectively controlling computational cost. The model achieved a 4x pretraining speedup over a strongly tuned T5-XXL baseline.
ICLR 2021 Announces List of Accepted Papers
Of the 2997 submissions, 860 papers have made it to ICLR 2021, for an acceptance rate of 28.7 percent — slightly higher than last year’s 26.5 percent.
VisualVoice Uses Facial Appearance to Boost SOTA in Speech Separation
Recent AI research on speech separation has explored ways to associate lip motions in videos with audio, but this approach suffers when speakers’ lips are occluded, which they often are in busy multi-speaker environments.
StyleGAN-Based VOGUE Is a SOTA AI-Powered Fitting Room
VOGUE, an AI-powered optimization method that deforms garments according to a given body shape while preserving pattern and material details to deliver state-of-the-art photorealistic, high-resolution try-on images.
Nature Paper: Atomistic ML Models Demonstrate Amorphous Silicon States & Transitions
AI’s acceleration of scientific discoveries continues - last month DeepMind’s AlphaFold solved a grand challenge in biology, and now an international AI research team has targeted materials science.
Geoffrey Hinton Discusses His Latest Research and the Future of AI
Turing Award winner Geoffrey Everest Hinton spoke about his recent research, his quest to understand learning in the brain and why he sees unsupervised learning as the future of AI.
Columbia University Model Learns Predictability From Unlabelled Video
Researchers propose a novel framework and hierarchical predictive model that learns to identify what is predictable from unlabelled video.
Microsoft DeBERTa Tops Human Performance on SuperGLUE NLU Benchmark
A new model surpassed human baseline performance on the challenging natural language understanding benchmark.
2020 in Review With Brian Tse
Synced has invited Mr. Brian Tse to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.
For Its Latest Trick, OpenAI’s GPT-3 Generates Images From Text Captions
OpenAI has trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.
‘Neural Body’ Reconstructs Dynamic Human Bodies From Sparse Camera Views
The novel approach tackles dynamic 3D human-body synthesis from a sparse set of camera views, bettering existing methods on key metrics by significant margins.
PGDrive Simulator Generates Unlimited Diverse Driving Environments
Researchers proposed PGDrive, a driving simulator designed to evaluate and improve end-to-end driving agents’ generalization abilities.
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2020 in Review With Tatsuya Nagata
Synced has invited Mr. Tatsuya Nagata, the COO of Navier Inc., to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.
2020 in Review With Johan A.K. Suykens
Synced has invited Prof. Johan A.K. Suykens to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.
2020 in Review: 10 AI Failures
This is the fourth Synced year-end compilation of “Artificial Intelligence Failures.” Our aim is not to shame nor downplay AI research, but to look at where and how it has gone awry with the hope that we can create better AI systems in the future.
2020 in Review: 8 New AI Regulatory Proposals from Governments
As part of our year-end series, Synced has compiled a global list of proposals, rules and regulatory frameworks for AI introduced in 2020.
Japanese Manga Translation Via Multimodal Context-Aware Framework
A new machine translation method enables global manga fans to enjoy immediate translations of their favourite Japanese comics.
2020 in Review: 10 AI-Powered Tools Tackling COVID-19
As part of our year-end series, Synced highlights 10 AI-powered efforts that contributed to the fight against COVID-19 in 2020.
2020 in Review With Sheldon Fernandez
Synced has invited Mr. Sheldon Fernandez to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.
Baidu Releases ML Bio-computing Framework PaddleHelix
At the Wave Summit 2020 held on December 20, Baidu unveiled the company’s newest ML-based bio-computing framework named “PaddleHelix”.
IPU Maker Graphcore Raises USD222 Million in Series E Funding Round
Graphcore has announced that it has raised USD 222 million in a Series E funding round that will boost company value to USD 2.77 billion.
Are RL Agents More Humanlike When Not Seeking Rewards? New Research from Vector Institute, University of Toronto & Google Brain
Researchers from Vector Institute, University of Toronto and Google Brain recently studied three common types of intrinsic motivation across seven agents, three Atari games, and the 3D game Minecraft.
Singapore Coffee Shop Builds a Robot Barista With Intel AI
At Crown Coffee, a small-yet-homey coffee bar in downtown Singapore, the autonomous robot barista “Ella” never gets your order wrong.
AI “Sounce” is the Noise Detector to Porsche Cars
Porsche Digital, the subsidiary of the Stuttgart-based sports car manufacturer, has unveiled digital assistant ‘Sounce’ offers an improved ability to detect noise – for example, during vehicle component tests.