Microsoft Ignite 2019 | Project Cortex AI Builds Enterprise Knowledge Networks
The message from Microsoft is clear: the company is investing in knowledge, which it believes will become one of the most important assets of any organization.
Category: Conference
First-hand coverages on newest academic and industry conferences in machine intelligence.
Microsoft Ignite 2019 | From Office to Cortex and Beyond – How AI Is Making a Difference at the World’s Most Valuable Company
“You’ll see AI infused into all our products and services across the company, from tools to help people be more productive at work, to Azure services that give our customers the flexibility to deploy AI capabilities in any environment,” said Microsoft Communications Corporate Vice President Frank Shaw.
Yoshua Bengio on Human vs Machine Intelligence
“We’ve made huge progress, much more than even my friends and I expected a few years ago. But (the progress) is mostly about perception, things like computer vision and speech recognition and synthesis of some things in natural processing. We’re still far from human capabilities.”
ICCV 2019 Best Papers Announced
ICCV 2019 received 4,303 papers — more than twice the number submitted to ICCV 2017 — and accepted 1,075, for a reception rate of roughly 25 percent.
‘AI in Action’ | Toronto Hosts AI Squared Forum 2019
On September 22 about 300 artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning enthusiasts gathered at the University of Toronto Bahen Centre for Information Technology for the AI Squared Forum 2019.
Alibaba’s New AI Chip Can Process Nearly 80K Images Per Second
At the Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) Apsara Conference 2019, Pingtouge unveiled its first AI dedicated processor for cloud-based large-scale AI inferencing. The Hanguang 800 is the first semiconductor product in Alibaba’s 20-year history.
Huawei Flexes AI Muscle With New Mate 30 Gesture Control and Smart Rotation
Chinese tech giant Huawei yesterday introduced the latest iteration of its flagship smartphone: Mate 30, Mate 30 Pro and Mate 30 Pro (5G).
RE•WORK AI in Finance | Federated AI, Reinforcement Learning and BERT
At last week’s Re•Work AI in Finance Conference in New York, researchers and engineers from banks and academia alike shared their thoughts on current AI research and applications in the finance world.
RE•WORK AI in Insurance Summit NYC 2019: AI Underwriting, Fraud Detection, and More
The Re•Work AI in Insurance Summit in New York City was held September 5-6 and saw 60 speakers from insurance-related companies cover a wide range of topics — from detecting claims fraud to applying machine learning to underwriting and maximizing revenue.
Meet Microsoft Suphx: The World’s Strongest Mahjong AI
At the Shanghai World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) on August 29, Microsoft’s Global Executive Vice President Harry Shum officially introduced MSRA’s Suphx (“Super Phoenix”) as “the most powerful Mahjong AI in history,”
Hot Chips | A California Startup Has Built an AI Chip as Big as a Notebook. Why?
California artificial intelligence startup Cerebras Systems yesterday introduced its Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE), the world’s largest-ever chip built for neural network processing.
KDD 2019 Announces Best Paper Awards
KDD 2019 features both a Research track and an Applied Data Science (ADS) track, and today organizers announced their Best Paper Awards.
ACL 2019 Announces Best Papers; Nature Covers Tianjic Chip; Baidu Releases ERNIE 2.0
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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.
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.
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.
How Uber & Lyft Use AI to Improve Ride Experience
At last month’s RE•WORK Applied AI Summit 2019 in San Francisco, AI experts from Uber and Lyft shared insights on how the companies are leveraging machine learning algorithms to improve their services for both riders and drivers.
Local Temporal Bilinear Pooling for Fine-Grained Action Parsing
Parsing fine-grained temporal actions is vital in application scenarios that require an understanding of detailed and precise operations over long-term periods, such as daily activity understanding, surgical robots, human motion analysis and animal behavior analysis.
Build Realistic Human Speech Animations with the New VOCA Model and 4D Face Dataset
In a new paper accepted at CVPR 2019, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems introduce a unique 4D (moving 3D images) face dataset and its learned model VOCA — Voice Operated Character Animation.
CVPR 2019 Attracts 9K Attendees; Best Papers Announced; ImageNet Honoured 10 Years Later
The 2019 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) kicked off today in Long Beach, California. CVPR is one of the world’s top three academic conferences in the field of computer vision (along with ICCV and ECCV).
CVPR 2019 | Waymo Introduces Open Dataset to Accelerate Autonomous Driving Research
Alphabet’s autonomous driving unit Waymo surprised many by releasing a new high-quality multimodal sensor dataset for autonomous driving. The *Waymo Open Dataset *was introduced at top AI conference Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2019 in Long Beach, California.
ICML Announces Best Paper Awards; What to Expect at CVPR 2019
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AI for Good, AI for Gender Equality
The more than 2,000 participants from over 120 countries were here for the *AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva 2019* — four days of presentations and discussions on how to make the world a better place for children to grow up in by leveraging the emerging power of machine learning.
RingNet | 3D Face Estimation Without 3D Supervision
In a new paper accepted at CVPR 2019, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems introduce RingNet, an end-to-end trainable network which learns to compute 3D face shape from a single face image without 3D supervision.
ICML 2019 | Google, ETH Zurich, MPI-IS, Cambridge & PROWLER.io Share Best Paper Honours
The 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) kicked off Monday in California. The ICML is one of the world’s two top conferences in ML and AI (the other being NeurIPS).
AI Beatbox and Self-Awareness: A Night of Artistic Intelligence
Hundreds of artificial intelligence researchers, UN staff and curious locals listened, watched and tapped their feet as London-born composer and human beatboxer Reeps One “battled” against an AI-powered real-time music generator trained on his own riffs.
RE•WORK Deep Learning Summit Boston 2019
The two-day RE•WORK Deep Learning Summit Boston 2019 gathered more than 60 speakers from top AI labs such as MIT CSAIL, Uber AI Labs, Adobe Research and other experts from the AI healthcare industry who provided high-level deep learning technical discussions and industry application insights.
AMD, Intel, Arm, and NVIDIA Put Their Chips on the Table at Computex 2019
The top semiconductor and hardware companies have arrived in Taipei, Taiwan for Computex 2019. The world’s biggest computer show is a preferred stage for the likes of AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, and Arm to showcase their latest chip designs.
Paper Submissions Break NeurIPS 2019 Paper Submission System
The Microsoft Conference Management Toolkit (CMT) that leading machine learning conference NeurIPS 2019 uses to process academic paper submissions failed in the countdown to yesterdays’s 1 p.m. PT submission deadline.
ACL 2019 Reports Record-High Paper Submissions; Begins Notifying Accepted Authors
The annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is world-leading conference in the field of natural language processing, Yesterday, conference organizers sent out author notifications on accepted papers for the 57th ACL gathering, which will take place in Florence, Italy from July 28 to August 2.
Google I/O 2019 | Geoffrey Hinton Says Machines Can Do Anything Humans Can
Artificial intelligence is closing the gap on humans. Machines are rapidly honing their skills in object recognition and natural language interaction, and advanced AI agents have already beat human champions in board and video games and even debates.
ICLR 2019 | Tsinghua, Google and ByteDance Propose Neural Networks for Inductive Learning & Logic Reasoning
Although machine learning has achieved huge advances in speech recognition, gaming and many other applications, some critics still regard it as little more than glorified “curve fitting” that lacks high-level cognitive abilities and reasoning skills.
I/O 2019 | Your Data Stays on Your Phone: Google Promises a Better AI
The success of artificial intelligence is built on large corpuses of centralized data collection, but rising concerns over user privacy and data misuse have left many people wary of fully embracing AI on their mobile devices. Google wants to change that.
ICLR 2019 | MILA, Microsoft, and MIT Share Best Paper Honours
The Seventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) kicked off today. One of the world’s major machine learning conferences, ICLR this year received 1591 main conference paper submissions — up 60 percent over last year — and accepted 24 for oral presentations and 476 as poster presentations.
Microsoft Build 2019 | AI-Driven Collaboration and Hybrid-Cloud Innovations for Microsoft 365 & Azure
Over 6,000 developers and computer scientists poured into Seattle’s Washington State Convention Center this morning for Day 1 of Microsoft Build 2019, the company’s annual developer conference. Microsoft used the occasion to announce a new AI-driven collaboration and hybrid-cloud innovations across Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure.
Researchers Question KDD 2019 Paper Review Process
The 25th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) released its paper acceptance results this week, and many researchers whose papers were rejected have taken to social media to question the review process.
Buildup to Microsoft Build 2019
Microsoft Build 2019 is around the corner. From May 6 to 8, developers and software engineers will fill Seattle’s Washington State Convention Center, where Microsoft is expected to announce updates to Windows, Office 365, its Azure cloud computing platform, and other company platforms and services.
AI @Facebook F8 | Self-Supervision, Fairness, Inclusivity and PyTorch 1.1
“AI is the best bot to keep people safe on our platforms,” Facebook Director of Artificial Intelligence Manohar Paluri told the F8 audience, adding that an effective way to achieve that goal is enabling Facebook’s AI system to “understand content and work effectively with less labeled training data.”
Bengio and Marcus at World AI Summit in Montréal
Held April 9 – 10, the conference welcomed AI leaders from industry and academia, who shared their AI experiences, insights, and analysis.
NAACL 2019 | Google BERT Wins Best Long Paper
This morning the NAACL 2019 conference committee announced its best paper awards. Synced has prepared a summary of the winning papers.