Airbus AI Introduces Natural Language QA System for Flight Crews
Airbus has developed a new Smart Librarian (SL) FCOM QA system comprising a dialogue engine, retriever (search engine), and QA module.
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Airbus has developed a new Smart Librarian (SL) FCOM QA system comprising a dialogue engine, retriever (search engine), and QA module.
Japanese conglomerate Toshiba announced it will launch a logistics robot that accurately recognizes randomly piled luggage utilizing AI in 2021.
As part of the Thai government’s digital transformation roadmap for 2020-22, the Digital Government Development Agency (DGA) has launched the first national AI centre.
Tesla confirmed to invest an additional USD 6.3 million in Shanghai to build a supercharging pile factory.
A Princeton student designed a GAN framework for Chinese landscape painting generation that is so effective most humans can’t distinguish its works from the real thing.
Google’s UK-based lab and research company DeepMind says its AlphaFold AI system has solved the protein folding problem, a grand challenge that has vexed the biology research community for half a century.
This is the first in a special Synced series of introductory articles on traditionally theoretical fields of studies and their impact on modern day machine learning.
Facebook’s new model enables free-viewpoint rendering of dynamic scenes in a single video.
Researchers from the City University of Hong Kong and SenseTime propose a lightweight matting objective decomposition network (MODNet) that can smoothly process real-time human matting from a single input image with diverse and dynamic backgrounds.
The Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence at Qatar Foundation’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University is developing the latest AI tools and technologies to enhance food production in Qatar.
Oracle has launched a regional cloud data centre – the Zayed Innovation and Artificial Intelligence Hub – in Dubai.
Recent report by telecommunications giant Singtel show that scam calls have doubled from last year and that customers have received more than 5,000 calls so far in 2020.
On November 24, the World Internet Conference Digital Economy Industry Cooperation Conference was held in Wuzhen, China.
At the JDDiscovery-2020 Global Technology Discovery Conference, the Chinese e-commerce giant announced a new research institute to further research in areas including AI, quantum computing and so on.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory has established a new research and development division, the Biotechnology and Human Systems Division.
Tencent Robotics X Lab announced new developments in mobile robot research – the four-legged mobile robot Jamoca.
The SeLf-trAining framework for Distance mEtric learning (SLADE) framework combines self-supervised learning and distance metric learning methods to improve information retrieval performance.
The Nemetschek Innovation Foundation will provide approximately EURO 50 million over the next ten years to fund an AI research and teaching institute at TUM.
China is accelerating the preparation of the “14th Five-Year” digital economy plan, which will be the country’s first designated plan for the digital economy.
Microsoft China and XiaoIce announced a strategic partnership, jointly launching 2B AI and cloud computing solutions in three areas: finance, automotive and content production.
University of Alberta recently proposed U^2-Net, a novel deep network architecture that achieves very competitive performance in salient object detection.
Recent IEEE study released the results of a survey of Chief Information Officers and Chief Technology Officers in the U.S., U.K., China, India and Brazil.
Chinese multinational power and electrical equipment manufacturing company Shanghai Electric signed a collaboration agreement with Siemens Energy on launching a new smart energy empowerment centre.
Asia Pacific (APAC)’s adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning in financial markets is accelerating.
South Korea will introduce AI to nationwide high school education in 2021
In EMNLP 2020, a Montreal-based research team introduced a large medical text dataset designed to boost abbreviation disambiguation in the medical domain.
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and RIKEN announced a performance milestone in supercomputing.
Saudi Arabia announced a multibillion-dollar investment strategy in artificial intelligence (AI) and data by 2030 to diversify its oil-based economy.
Beijing Zhiyuan AI Research Institute released the 2020 Beijing AI Development Report, showing that Beijing ranks first nationally in 17 areas, including for having the highest numbers of companies and scholars.
Researchers achieved world-class interface smoothness with a-axis YBa2Cu3O7-x/PrBa2Cu3O7-x/YBa2Cu3O7-x trilayers grown on (100) LaAlO3 substrates.
A new study by South China University of Technology and Tencent WeChat AI researchers is the latest fruitful attempt to utilize transformer architectures in object detection.
A new AI-powered image synthesis framework makes “learning” to moonwalk or drop Blackpink dance moves a snap.
Egypt’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology met with the Ambassador of Hungary in Cairo to discuss boosting cooperation between the two countries in the fields of AI and data science, capacity building, innovation and entrepreneurship, applied research, and cyber-security.
In the next 15 years, global 5G investment and R&D investment will increase by 10.8% from the forecast value in 2019.
Facebook AI is building an automatic differentiation system for the Kotlin programming language and developing a system for tensor typing.
The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020) kicked off on Monday as a virtual conference.
The CoRL 2020 Best System Paper Award was presented today to Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and University College London for their paper SMARTS: Scalable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Training School for Autonomous Driving.
Stylized Neural Painter is a novel automatic image-to-painting translation method that generates vivid and realistic artworks in controllable styles
A new DeepMind scalable environment simulator takes a digital approach to the question, enabling the examination of environmental factors on AI agents.
CoRL 2020 kicked off yesterday and runs virtually through November 18. This year saw 475 papers submitted, a 20 percent rise over 2019.