OpenAI’s Long Pursuit of Dota 2 Mastery
A hearty round of applause arose from the crowd packing the Vancouver Rogers Centre on August 22 when a team of unassuming scientists wearing “OpenAI” T-shirts climbed up on stage.
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Can AI Reinvent the TV?
Leading television manufacturer Skyworth has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Chinese internet giant Baidu. In the deal announced March 17, Baidu will invest CN¥1.01 billion (US$159.7 million) in Skyworth’s Smart TV unit Coocaa; while its AI assistant system DuerOS will be integrated into Skyworth’s agenda-setting Super AI TV.
Unveiling China’s Mysterious AI Lead: Synced Machine Intelligence Awards 2017
The Synced 2017 Machine Intelligence Awards recognize companies that use AI technologies in smart and commercially viable ways. This year we received more than 500 applications, and with the help of our industry analysts selected the top 10% that really stood out.
Uncanny Artificial Humans
One of the most attention-grabbing displays at CES 2018 is “Joel,” a body inside a vacuum-sealed plastic bag, curled up in the fetal position and peacefully waiting for a consciousness.
NIPS: 2017 Day 1 & 2 Highlights
NIPS has become the world’s leading conference on machine learning and computational neuroscience, with 8,000 attendees flocking to Long Beach, California this week for NIPS 2017, the most popular yet.
From Zero to Master in Hours: AlphaZero Accelerates Reinforcement Learning
Google’s DeepMind has once again surprised the machine learning community, this time with the introduction of AlphaZero — a new algorithm that can quickly surpass human board game performance through reinforcement learning self-play.
Poker & AI: The Rise of Machines Against Humans
AI applications in the poker industry? This infograh shows you the AI capable of playing poker at (very) high levels.
Inside the Voice Inside Your Smart Speaker
Google and Amazon unveiled mini-sized smart speakers Google Home Mini Chalk and Amazon Echo Dot 2, both priced at less than US$50. Virtual assistants can plug into your environment with a natural human-machine voice interface that used to exist only science fiction.
AlphaGo Zero: Approaching Perfection
Facebook AI Researcher Yuandong Tian says new AlphaGo Zero paper is destined to be a classic.
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.
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.
What AI Talent Are Companies Hungry For?
As more companies bet on AI, computer scientists with AI expertise are coming into demand on the job market.
Wearables: Translate Ideas into Products
Notable wearables today include Fitbit wristbands, the Apple watch, Google Glass, and Playstation VR — all of which have gained great market shares. As the data-collecting portal to the IoT, wearables hold many future possibilities.
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.
Pittsburgh’s Pivot to Artificial Intelligence
Synced meets the people transforming a former steel town into a metropolis powered by artificial intelligence and robotics.
System-Aware Distributed Optimization for Machine Learning
The goal of this report is to inspire our readers in the field of distributed machine learning and invite more to join our discussion to exchange knowledge and contribute to our intellectual community.
History and Frontier of the Neural Machine Translation
Compared to SMT, NMT can train multiple features jointly and does not need prior domain knowledge, enabling zero-shot translation. In addition to higher BLEU score and better sentence structure, NMT can also help reduce morphology errors, syntax errors, and word order errors of SMT.
One Night at CVPR 2017 : Exploring IJCV and the Asia Research Force
Hosted annually in the United States, the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference received 2,620 submissions, accepted 783 papers, attracted 127 sponsors with $859,000 in sponsorship and close to 5,000 attendees.
Canvassing Switzerland’s AI Landscape
We explore top-notch Swiss AI facilities: starting with deep learning and neural network research at IDSIA in Lugano, to interdisciplinary research at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and University of Basel, and ending with robotics innovations at ETH in Zurich and University of Zurich.
Relearn the Linguistic World in “Arrival”: An Interview with Jessica Coon
Computer science and machine learning scholars are increasingly interested in languages, and natural language processing has shown great progress as a result.
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
Building AI Superclusters in Canada
Canada is determined to build AI superclusters in Toronto-Waterloo, Montréal, and Edmonton.