A Trio of Machine Learning & Language Technology Breakthroughs You Shouldn’t Miss
Synced Global AI Weekly August 18th
Category: AI
Global machine intelligence updates.
Why Automation Isn’t the Answer to Smart Manufacturing
While management teams and consultants may spout trendy tech terms such as “process”, “automated”, or “smart”, and seem keen to hand over precisely-timed, measured tasks to machines, the truth is that AI tech is not a panacea — because manufacturing is hard.
Masters Will Share Insights at First Toronto Kaggle Days Meetup
Synced would like to invite Toronto AI and data science students and researchers to join representatives of the world’s largest data science community for an evening of networking, discussions, and refreshments!
DeepMind ‘Bsuite’ Evaluates Reinforcement Learning Agents
Now AI researchers have created a similar evaluation system to assess the relative performance of reinforcement learning (RL) systems across different tasks.
Israeli AI Research Company Led by Stanford Professor and MobileEye CEO Introduces Model to Solve Text Ambiguity
Israeli research company AI21 Labs today published the paper SenseBERT: Driving Some Sense into BERT, which proposes a new model that significantly improves lexical disambiguation abilities and has obtained state-of-the-art results on the complex Word in Context (WiC) language task.
Facebook, Georgia Tech & OSU ‘ViLBERT’ Achieves SOTA on Vision-and-Language Tasks
A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Facebook AI Research and Oregon State University has proposed ViLBERT (Vision-and-Language BERT), a novel model for visual grounding that can learn joint representations of image content and natural language.
Does Deep Learning Still Need Backpropagation?
Now, researchers from the Victoria University of Wellington School of Engineering and Computer Science have introduced the HSIC (Hilbert-Schemidt independence criterion) bottleneck as an alternative to backpropagation for finding good representations.
New Snip Smartphone App Converts Math Screenshots Into LaTeX
Not so long ago, mathematics students and researchers had to spend a tedious amount of time writing out equations in the technical and scientific documentation typesetting system LaTeX.
PyTorch 1.2 Supports Transformer and Tensorboard; Summer Hackathon Announced
PyTorch v1.2 brings the machine learning community further improvements, including official support for Transformer, TensorBoard, and more.
Tencent-backed Video App Kuaishou Is Turning Chinese Country Folk Into Hollywood Directors
Thanks to social video app Kuaishou and its plug-and-play tools, even rural Chinese with cheap smartphones are quickly and easily producing short videos featuring Hollywood-style special effects.
AI Provides Solutions for the Japanese Fishing Industry
This article looks at three Japanese cases where AI is being applied either in large-scale aquaculture or to improve yields in traditional capture fishing.
Google AI & DeepMind Temporal Cycle-Consistency Learning Understands Every Video Frame
Frame-by-frame fine-grained labeling is however a time-consuming task. To tackle this problem, researchers from Google AI and DeepMind have introduced a novel self-supervised learning method called Temporal Cycle-Consistency Learning (TCC).
Semantic Based Adversarial Examples Fool Face Recognition
Researchers have proposed a new adversarial attack approach, SemanticAdv, which generates adversarial perturbations by manipulating not pixels but rather an image’s semantic attributes.
AI Analyzes Chess Commentary to Learn to Play Chess
What if an AI could learn to play Chess based only on human game commentary? That interesting task has been tackled by SentiMATE, a new Chess algorithm proposed by University College London.
South Korean Game Developer’s AI Turns Your Selfie Into an Anime Face
Last month a team of South Korean researchers proposed a method that uses unsupervised image translation to transform a simple selfie into a classic Japanese-style anime face.
Chinese Video Streaming Giant Introduces Anime Facial ID Dataset
In a bid to combine anime and cartoon culture with machine learning, a research team from China’s leading video streaming service iQIYI has introduced a novel large unconstrained cartoon dataset they call “iCartoonFace.”
Tencent AI Trounces Pro Team in China’s #1 Mobile Game
China’s largest game-maker Tencent recently took a huge leap when its homegrown AI system Wukong AI (绝悟) trounced a human pro team in China’s most popular mobile game Honor of Kings (王者荣耀), aka Arena of Valor.
Harvard Researchers Benchmark TPU, GPU & CPU for Deep Learning
Because training deep learning models requires intensive computation, AI researchers are always on the lookout for new and better hardware and software platforms for their increasingly sophisticated models.
AI & New Retail: Recent Developments and Future Trends
The traditional retail industry is facing challenges as the rapid development and continuous improvement of AI tools and techniques ushers in the era of New Retail.
Facebook AI Memory Layer Boosts Network Capacity by a Billion Parameters
Recently, Facebook AI Research (FAIR) researchers introduced a structured memory layer which can be easily integrated into a neural network to greatly expand network capacity and the number of parameters without significantly changing calculation cost.
Robot Masters String Puppetry
A group of researchers from ETH Zurich have introduced a robotic system that can perform animation of real-world string puppets, aka marionettes.
ACL 2019 | Best Papers Announced
The ACL 2019 organizing committee announced its eight paper awards: Best Long Paper, Best Short Paper, Best Demo Paper, and five Outstanding Paper awards.
Nature Cover Story | Chinese Team’s ‘Tianjic Chip’ Bridges Machine Learning and Neuroscience in Pursuit of AGI
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.
Greening AI | New AI2 Initiative Promotes Model Efficiency
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.
Baidu’s ERNIE 2.0 Beats BERT and XLNet on NLP Benchmarks
Today, the research division of the Chinese search giant released their updated ERNIE 2.0, a pretrained language understanding model with significant improvements.
Julia Computing & MIT Introduce Differentiable Programming System Bridging AI and Science
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.
Neural Architects: What Have We Learned and Where Are We Going?
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.
Waymo Teams Up With DeepMind; Lyft Shares Large-Scale Dataset
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Cars, Cockpits, & Intelligent Pilot
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.
Huawei’s First 5G Phone, the Mate 20 X 5G, Hits the Chinese Market
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.
Animated Selfies and Other AI Image Processing Magic
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.
Alibaba Is Open-Sourcing Its Powerful New RISC-V Processor for 5G and AI
Alibaba’s chip subsidiary Pingtouge (平头哥) yesterday introduced its first product, an RISC-V (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) processor.
Meet Your AI-Generated Dream Anime Girl
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.
Has BERT Been Cheating? Researchers Say it Exploits ‘Spurious Statistical Cues’
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.
Robot Music Through the Ages
With recent developments in artificial intelligence and automation in machines, robots are advancing into previously unexplored industries such as music and entertainment.
2019 Google Scholar Metrics Released, CVPR Cracks the Top Ten
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.
Few-Shot and Federated Learning Among Trending Topics Discussed at Top Chinese AI Conference Shibei·GMIS 2019
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 BlazeFace Performs Submillisecond Neural Face Detection on Mobile GPUs
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.
Natural Adversarial Examples Slash Image Classification Accuracy by 90%
Researchers from UC Berkeley and the Universities of Washington and Chicago have released a set of natural adversarial examples, which they call “ImageNet-A.”
AI Summer Fun! Pizza, Pooches & Cool Apps
Synced Global AI Weekly July 21st