2019 AI Residency Guide
Synced surveyed a number of 2019 AI residency programs that may be of interest to readers.
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Global AI community updates.
Team Boston Power Wins the JDD 2017 Global Data Challenge
An AI-powered loan forecasting solution developed by Ryan Chen and Yupeng Zheng (Team Boston Power) topped the field at this year’s JDD (JD.com Discovery) 2017 Global Data Challenge, winning the first prize of US$45,000.
JDD-2017 Global Data Challenge Now Accepting Challengers! Prizes Up to USD 45,000!
On November 6, JD Finance will launch the first JDD-2017 Global Data Challenge. Yes, we want you on board!
Vector Adds Brains
Toronto’s Vector Institute announced today that it is adding 10 new faculty members, effectively doubling its size.
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.
Andrew Ng Will Give Keynote Speech at AI Frontiers Conference on Nov 3, 4&5
The AI Frontiers Conference will be held in Nov in Santa Clara Convention Center.
Call to Participate! Alibaba’s Ant Financial Hosts First Hackathon in San Francisco
This October, Ant Financial and Synced are co-hosting the ATEC Developer Creativity Challenge for developers to showcase creativity using Alipay Mini-program.
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.
IJCAI 2017: Tencent X Synced Young Scholar Tech Night and Reception in Melbourne
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2017 will be held in Melbourne, Australia from August 19 to August 25, summoning top researchers from around the world.
UNICEF Uses AI to Help Underprivileged Children
Synced sat down with Christopher Fabian, the co-founder of UNICEF’s for-profit Innovation Fund, in Geneva, where he took us through the Innovation Fund’s innovative mandate.
Applying Data Science to Robotics
In his blog post “How Data Science Apply to Robotics” on Data Science Central, Dr. Ammar A. Raja points out that there are two major problems scientists have encountered while applying data science to robotics.
Jürgen Schmidhuber: True Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything
From LSTM deep learning technique to self-learning humanoid robot, Jürgen Schmidhuber’s research teams have won awards in various machine learning competitions, including medical image recognition.
Global AI Hackathon in Toronto
On June 23-24, the first Global Artificial Intelligence Hackathon took place in Toronto at University of Toronto, alongside 14 otherContinue Reading
2017 1000 Plan Startup Contest – Silicon Valley Regional Competition
1000 Plan Startup Contest is going to hit Silicon Valley on June 10. As one of the most influential US-ChinaContinue Reading
RE·WORK: Deep Learning in Retail Summit (London, UK)
RE•WORK is one of the top global Machine Intelligence industry conference/summit organizers. The aim of Rework: Combining entrepreneurship, technology & science to re-work the future.
1 Day Countdown: Industry Spotlights on Global Machine Intelligence Summit 2017
With just one day remaining before the GMIS 2017 kicks off in Beijing, we’ll survey the industry applications of AI technologies.
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.
3 Day Count Down: GMIS 2017 Warms Up With Debate at Pre-Event in San Francisco
“There is going to be a revolution that’s 100 times the size of the mobile revolution,” claimed Saman Farid fromContinue Reading
8 Day Countdown: Technical Spotlight on the Global Machine Intelligence Summit 2017
On May 27-28, SYNCED will host the Global Machine Intelligence Summit 2017 (GMIS) at 898 Innospace in Beijing. This isContinue Reading
Make AI Computing 100 Times Faster
“We want to be able to train a machine learning model, like Google Translate, in a few hours,” said Prof. Hwu. Best known for enabling the parallelism capability of the GPU to solve scientific problems like AI.
The Humans Behind Artificial Intelligence
AI companies require accurate data for specialized applications, and seemingly little things such as labelling and tagging demand accuracy. At present, only humans are up for the task.
Artificial Intelligence is the New Electricity — Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng – former Baidu Chief Scientist, Coursera co-founder, and Stanford Adjunct Professor – gave a talk at the Stanford MSx Future Forum.
The Time to Marry AI May Come Soon
Dr. Eisaku Maeda, the director of NTT Communication Science Laboratories, was recently interviewed by The Huffington Post, sharing his opinions on AI.
Chinese Investors are Fascinated by Pitt’s Tech Boom
Pittsburgh, “Silicon Valley of the East”, captures the attention of tech giants, talents and investors for the progressive movements in advanced technology and innovation.
Is Baidu the No. 1 Player on China’s National Team of Artificial Intelligence?
“The Internet is just an appetizer, whereas AI is the real entrée. The latter is not a part of the internet, not the second stage of the internet; it is technological revolution comparable to the industrial revolution.” – Robin Li, CEO of Baidu.
Can AI Fool Humans? In the Spirit of April (Fools): This is No Joke
In the spirit of April (Fools), let us see how far down is AI along the path of “fooling” humans.
US-China’s Innovation Arrived on UIUC Campus
A handful of Chinese scientists, investors and entrepreneurs were invited to talk at the UIUC U.S.-China Innovation & Development Forum last Saturday.
Rework Machine Learning Summit in SF: AI is Teaching Robots to Chat
At Rework Machine Learning Summit at San Francisco, speakers from tech giants, as AI research labs and AI-related startups, are invited to present their latest study in machine learning.
Chinese AI Talents in US are Driving Attention from Worldwide Tech Giants
Rapid rise of AI industry drives extremely huge demand for talents, Chinese AI talents in US are driving attention from worldwide tech giants.
2017 Trends — What You Want & What Comes
A glance at the state of the art research shows that neural networks would still serve us, and artificial general intelligence is not yet in sight.
Google Brain’s Lukasz Kaiser: How Deep Learning Quietly revolutionized NLP
Lukasz Kaiser, Senior Research Scientist at Google Brain, gives a presentation about the developments in Natural Language Processing techniques at 2017’s AI Frontier Conference.
Top 10 AI News of 2016
2016 was full of ups, downs, and surprises: for the world and for AI.
Interview with Dr.Richard Sutton: we might have strong AI algorithms by 2030
Professor Richard Sutton is considered to be one of the founding fathers of modern computational reinforcement learning. He made several significant contributions to the field, including temporal difference learning, policy gradient methods, and the Dyna architecture.
Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence conference held by Creative Destruction Lab in Toronto
Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Richard Sutton and Ruslan Salakhutdinov Panel Summary at 2016 I was at the 2016 “Machine LearningContinue Reading