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.
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Yamaha Sets the Pace for Self-Driving Motorcycles
A creation of Yamaha’s new Innovation Center, MOTOROiD will make its international debut this week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
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.
Berlin: Breaking the Wall Between Human and Artificial Intelligence
Much like that epoch-making event 28 years ago, AI technology is breaking down limitations and opening up new opportunities.
Canada’s Big Push on AI
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently joined the Canadian machine learning community to celebrate the country’s burgeoning AI ecosystem at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management’s Creative Destruction Lab (CDL).
Vector Adds Brains
Toronto’s Vector Institute announced today that it is adding 10 new faculty members, effectively doubling its size.
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.
Tokyo: AI and Society Symposium
Synced attended the AI and Society Symposium held October 10-11th in Tokyo, where speakers from industry and academia exchanged ideas for practical applications and possible future developments of AI.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
C2 Montreal – Master Class with Yoshua Bengio: Know The Basics
Professor Bengio delivered the “Fundamentals of AI” masterclass to a cross-industry audience at C2 event in Montreal, Canada.
Canada’s Future Bets on AI
Canada unveiled a budget of $125 million to launch Pan-Canadian Al Strategy, a new independent institute for AI, Vector Institute.