Baidu’s Apollo Seeks to Democratize US Autonomous Driving
Synced recently attended a Baidu meet-up at the company’s newly-opened Silicon Valley offices, where details were released on the latest iteration of the Apollo platform, Apollo 1.5.
Category: AI
Global machine intelligence updates.
AlphaGo Zero: Approaching Perfection
Facebook AI Researcher Yuandong Tian says new AlphaGo Zero paper is destined to be a classic.
Meet Voice Pioneer Dr. Mei-Yuh Hwang
Mobvoi hired Dr. Mei-Yuh Hwang as its Vice President of Engineering in 2016. A respected speech recognition researcher and former Principle NLP Scientist Manager at Microsoft, Dr. Hwang is a pioneer in voice recognition and machine translation.
AI Phone Duel: $825 Mate 10 vs $999 iPhone X
This Monday in Munich, China’s largest domestic mobile phone maker Huawei unveiled Mate 10 — billed as the most powerful AI phone in the world.
Six Disruptive AI Platforms for Law
An intelligent revolution of the legal industry has begun.
AI Abuzz over CycleGan Face Swapping Video
YouTuber “TJWei” recently uploaded a “Face-off” video on YouTube. The four-minute split-screen clip sees two figures speaking and emoting simultaneously. Both look human, but one is an entity generated in real-time by an AI algorithm.
Good AI Lab Energizes Biotech With AI
Silicon Valley-based Good AI lab aims to crowdsource the world’s unused FLOPS in order to provide medical researchers with the computing power they need.
Google AI Assistant Smartest in Human IQ Tests
Clearly, digital voice assistants are wising up — how long until they catch up?
This Cloud Has a Smart Lining
AI-powered cloud platforms can help businesses benefit from AI. Oracle, the world’s second-largest software company, is prepared to hop on board.
Deep Direct Regression for Multi-Oriented Scene Text Detection
On the ICDAR2015 Incidental Scene Text benchmark, proposed method achieves F1-measure of 81%.
NVIDIA GTC China: TensorRT 3.0, AI Machine Processor Xavier, and China Partnerships
The annual NVIDIA GTA Conference opened in Beijing on September 26th.
RIP Theano
Before TensorFlow, PyTorch and Caffe; Theano was the major library for deep learning development. However, the library’s development and support will end after the upcoming Theano 1.0 release.
Fake AI vs. Real AI
The AI boom has seen countless companies scrambling to jump on the bandwagon — even if their products have little to do with AI.
A Brief Overview of Attention Mechanism
Attention is simply a vector, often the outputs of dense layer using softmax function.
Machine Teaching A New Paradigm for Building Machine Learning Systems
This paper laid out the position of Machine Teaching, a universally accessible, easy to manage, and fast discipline proposed by Microsoft Research, and articulated the fundamental machine teaching principles.
Baidu All in AI: DuerOS and Apollo Open Platforms
The “Baidu AI Developers Conference” (Baidu Create 2017) was held July 5 at the China National Convention Center in Beijing.Continue Reading
Best Time Ever for AI Startups?
While tech giants like Google and Amazon are setting the pace in AI R&D these days, startups can also find success by targeting niche markets
Bridging Neural Machine Translation and Bilingual Dictionaries
In this paper, the author aims to design a smart way to handle rare/unknown words in the bilingual training data during machine translation.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Sept (Pt 1)
09/05 — Google Updates Its Street View Cameras with AI and Machine Learning Google just upgraded its street view camera for the firstContinue Reading
English-Japanese Neural Machine Translation with Encoder-Decoder-Reconstructor
This paper is the implementation of ‘encoder-decoder reconstructor framework’ for neural machine translation for the English-Japanese translation task.
Is AI Advancing Too Quickly or Too Slowly?
Last month, it was widely reported that two Facebook chatbots had been shut down after communicating with each other in an unrecognizable language.
Apple Embraces AI with iPhone X
The latest iPhone struts its AI strength with three new features: Face ID, for facial recognition; Animoji, an emoji animator; and a new camera exposure mode called portrait lighting.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from August (Pt 2)
Google, Apple, Walmart, Intel, Baidu, Alibaba, Siemens, Salesforce, IBM: August digest from industry giants
From Amazon to Alibaba: The Quest of Computer Vision Scientist Xiaofeng Ren
“I am tempted by Alibaba’s large pool of business scenarios and huge user base,” says Xiaofeng Ren.
Huawei Announces Kirin 970: AI In Your Phone
China’s biggest domestic mobile phone maker, Huawei, is now powering its phones with artificial intelligence (AI) engines. The Chinese techContinue Reading
GoodAI – Sending AI to School
Marek Rosa’s dream is to create a machine that improves itself recursively to achieve an intelligence level humans cannot imagine, allowing it to tackle problems of any scale.
Experts Warn Robots Are Growing in Consciousness and Should Be Classified as an “Invasive Species”
Some experts from different fields stated their concerns that with the rapid rise of artificial intelligence in the next few decades, intelligent robots would take over the human world and extinguish the entire human culture.
Andrew Ng Unveils Deeplearning.ai – New DL Courses on Coursera
Andrew Ng, one of the top minds in deep learning, loves teaching. And so, the Stanford University professor decided toContinue Reading
Lethal Autonomous Weapons & Info-Wars: A Scientist’s Warning
“To pretend science is morally neutral, and that you can develop anything and have clean hands because it is someone else using it to kill people is extremely naive, and scientists should know that.” – UC Berkeley’s Dr. Stuart Russell
Conversational Systems: A General Review
How can we communicate with “super intelligent” robots? The answer lies in conversational systems.
A Survey of Question Answering for Math and Science Problem
Overview of the ways to make a machine smart enough to pass the standardized math and science test.
Failures of Deep Learning
In 2015, Anh Nguyen published a paper in CVPR that identified a limit in computer vision, where you can fool a deep neural network (DNN) by changing an image in a way that’s imperceptible to humans, but can cause the DNN to label the image as something else entirely.
Ready, Set, Go! Meet Yuandong Tian: AI Maverick
“Scientists need passion to do research, and that is my passion.” – Yuandong Tian, Facebook Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Trump Dismisses Global Warming; AI Seeks Solution
If Artificial Intelligence (AI) were running the US, it’s unlikely it would abandon the Paris Climate Agreement.
How a Deep Neural Network Trained with End-to-End Learning Steers a Car
A practical way to make an autonomous vehicle is not by programming a car to drive in any environment, but by showing the car how to drive and make the car learn by itself. NVIDIA created a system of this kind, named PilotNet.
AlphaGo: The Ultimate Go Master
For more than 2,500 years, humans have been playing and studying the incredibly complex game of Go. In a matter of months, AI learned how to do it better.
Generative Face Completion
This paper proposes a deep generative model for face completion, which can directly generate facial components for the missing regions of a face image.
Google I/O 2017: Integrating Everything with AI
At the 10th Google I/O, held May 17-19 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, Google took a different approach from unveiling exciting new products, by putting its focus on the convergence of existing products, aimed at providing a better user experience.
Big Picture Machine Learning: Classifying Text with Neural Networks and TensorFlow
TensorFlow is one of the most popular open source AI libraries. Its high in computing efficiency, and the rich development resources make it widely adopted by companies and individual developers.
Why AlphaGo is not AI
Thanks to AlphaGo, the term “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) came under the spotlight (again). However, Jean-Christophe Baillie doesn’t agree that AlphaGo is AI, for the reason that it’s not able to get us to full AI – an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).