CVPR Announces Best Paper Awards; ImageNet Honoured 10 Years Later
Synced Global AI Weekly June 23th
Category: Industry
Global AI Industry updates.
AI Development and Trends in E-Commerce
The traditional retail industry is undergoing a significant reinvention and upgrade as more and more brick and mortar stores boost business by adopting e-commerce platforms powered by cutting-edge tech.
Huawei 7nm Kirin 810 Beats Snapdragon 855 and Kirin 980 on AI Benchmark Test
At Huawei’s Nova 5 Series smartphone launch event yesterday the Chinese tech giant unveiled its new 7nm SoC, the Kirin 810.
The Online Dating Industry Loves Artificial Intelligence
Instead of having users simply swipe through headshots, many new dating apps and online platforms are leveraging artificial intelligence to introduce a variety of novel approaches to smart matchmaking.
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.
IEEE Reverses Huawei Paper Review Restrictions
In a new statement issued late Sunday, the world’s largest technical professional organization the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) announced it is lifting restrictions it had imposed scarcely a week ago on editorial and peer reviews involving employees of Chinese tech communication giant Huawei.
Grandma’s Robot: How AI Is Revolutionizing Elder Care
By 2050 almost one-in-four humans will be aged 60 years and older, double today’s share. Moreover, the number of people aged 80 years and older will quadruple. This demographic shift is opening new vistas for AI technologies in elders’ daily healthcare management, and as a useful tool for healthcare professionals and institutions treating seniors.
ML Community Raises Inclusivity Concerns After IEEE Bars Huawei Paper Reviewers
The world’s biggest technical professional organization, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) issued a statement on May 22 that forbids its colleagues from Huawei and 68 of its affiliates from reviewing or accessing non-public papers submitted by other persons for publications.
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.
Five Powerful Robots You Shouldn’t Miss
Synced Global AI Weekly May 26th
Facial Recognition in Identity Verification
Facial recognition is a major class of biometric technology which is increasing its market share while expanding its applications across multiple industries.
Microsoft Pumps $100M into African AI Centres
Under CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft has made it a priority to develop international partnerships, and the world’s largest software company is now expanding its presence across the great continent of Africa.
Machine Learning Powers Breast Cancer Study; UK National Health Service Embraces AI
Synced Global AI Weekly May 19th
Google AI Apps Aim to Improve the Lives of People With Disabilities
About 15 percent of the world population — over one billion people — have some type of disability, according to the World Health Organization. Some 200 million of these experience considerable difficulties in work and public environments.
Yoshua Bengio to Lead New Canadian Advisory Council on AI
At the G7 Digital Ministers gathering in Paris yesterday Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Bains announced the launch of the Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence.
‘Abandon US’ Petition Protests AI Conference Visa Denials
A French-based research scientist has collected almost 300 signatures on an online petition calling for organizers of major computer science conferences such as SIGGRAPH, NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, etc. to exclude the US as a host.
Earth Week: AI Helps Build A Sustainable Future
Synced Global AI Weekly April 28th
AI in Medical Imaging: Global Market Outlook
With its improved productivity and accuracy and more personalized experience, AI is revolutionizing medical imaging. According to Signify Research, the world market for AI in medical imaging — comprising software for automated detection, quantification, decision support, and diagnosis — will reach US$2 billion by 2023.
The 10 Biggest Semiconductor M&A Deals in 2018
The semiconductor industry took off in the 1960s, when most companies were still IDMs (integrated device manufacturers) who designed, manufactured, packaged, tested and sold ICs (integrated circuits).
Game On! AI Revolutionizes The Video Game Industry
Synced Global AI Weekly April 21st
A Look at China’s Growing Semiconductor Industry
In February Chinese AI semiconductor maker Horizon Robotics raised US$600 million in Series B funding from SK China, SK Hynix and big auto groups, making it the first in its field to reach the staggering valuation of US$3 billion.
Opportunities and Challenges in the Japanese Smart Home Market
ccording to a Fuji Research Laboratory report, the Japanese smart home market is expected to top JP¥4.2 trillion (US$38 billion) in 2025, up 36.3 percent from 2017. The market is being driven by smart devices including smartphones, which already account for more than half the market and are continuing to grow due their ability to conveniently connect IoT devices.
Is the Fashion World Ready for AI-Designed Dresses?
It’s a fanciful little one-piece in shimmering green and aquamarine with bold fuschia shoulder accents — perfect for a night out on the town. Is this a new dress from a Milan or Tokyo collection? Nope, it was designed by an AI-powered machine, and produced by a couple of MIT graduates.
Your Location Is Gold to Businesses
Business models that leverage location data from mobile devices are part of a growing, multi-billion dollar market. Where you are matters much more than you might think.
Big Tech Accelerates Autonomous Driving
While there is nothing wrong with viewing autonomous driving as an emerging sector in the car manufacturing industry, big tech companies are also playing a central role, and have been making huge investments in automotive technologies.
Natural Language Processing in Call Centres
AI-empowered technologies such as natural language processing (NLP) are increasingly active in the labour-intensive world of call centres — concentrated offices used for sending or receiving a large volume of requests by telephone.
AI Biweekly: Canada Pumps Money into AI; Siemens Steps Up Digital Innovation
10 AI News You Must Know From February W3 – W4
Steady Growth and Integration Push Amazon Alexa to the Top
According to a CIRP study, Amazon Alexa has a commanding 70 percent market share in the US, with rival Google Assistant taking 24 percent. A Market Research Future study predicts the voice assistant market will reach US$7.8 billion by 2023, a compound annual growth rate of almost 40 percent.
AI Is Personalizing Hotel Services
Synced surveyed several “future hotels” that are already applying AI in hospitality, to see how the tech can provide guests with a unique and satisfying experience.
California Startup GTI Releases AI Chips to Challenge NVIDIA and Intel
In his 1988 IEEE paper Cellular Neural Networks: Theory, UC Berkeley PhD student Lin Yang proposed Cellular Neural Network theory, a predecessor of the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) that would later revolutionize machine learning. Based on this theory, Yang blueprinted a 20*20 parallel simulated circuit chip in the university lab.
GG! DeepMind Struts Its StarCraft Strength; Humans Strike Back
DeepMind bot AlphaStar has scored a convincing 10/10 victory against pro human players in a special series of StarCraft II matches. Plucky 26 year-old Polish gamer Grzegorz “MaNa” Komincz however salvaged a bit of human pride, snatching a surprise win yesterday in a live rematch at the DeepMind and Blizzard Entertainment Starcraft II Demonstration live stream event hosted in London.
Natural Language Processing In Early Education
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a hot research area in artificial intelligence and computer science. The technology teaches machines to understand human language so they can more effectively communicate with us. NLP research is integrated with linguistics, context analysis and semantics.
DeepMind Announces Pre-Symptom Eye Disease Prediction at Moorfields
Google DeepMind has announced that its project with London’s Moorfields Eye Hospital will now include working with clinicians to predict eye diseases before symptoms occur.
Drive.ai Launches Autonomous Ride-Hailing Service in Arlington, Texas
The slogan of Arlington, Texas is “American Dream City,” and as residents start their commute this morning some may wonder if they are in fact dreaming. A fleet of futuristic autonomous vehicles today began chauffeuring Arlingtonites along city streets in self-driving startup Drive.ai’s latest public road testing project.
Andrew Ng Warns of Centralized AI Power
One of the biggest risks involved with AI is “it tends to concentrate power in hands of fewer individuals,” warns Andrew Ng, one of the AI’s most prestigious figures.
AI in the Media and Entertainment Industry
The Media and Entertainment industry is a cornerstone of contemporary human culture, delivering films, TV shows, advertisements and more in a multitude of languages across a wide variety of devices.
Fintech Surge: S&P Global Acquires Kensho for Record $550 Million; Ant Financial Launches Pre-IPO Funding
S&P Global has signed an agreement to acquire Kensho, a Cambridge, MA-based AI company that uses data analytics and machine learning algorithms to find correlations and arbitrage opportunities in large-scale financial datasets.
Augmenting Virtual Assistants with Personality and Personalization
People care most about having good content and being recognized by virtual assistants, the AI-powered human-machine conversational interfaces.
China’s AI-powered NetEase is Music to Your Ears
Chinese netizens are all ears for the company’s “hearty” AI-powered music recommendations. In an interview with Synced, NetEase Data Scientist Jia Xu and Product Manager Bowen Shen explained the NetEase system, which learns how to predict what songs will resonate with a user’s particular taste in music…
Alibaba City Brain Goes Rural: AI Pig Farming in Sichuan
Sichuan pig farming corporation Dekon Group and pig feed supplier Tequ Group’s new partnership with Alibaba Cloud to apply its AI-powered “ET Brain” to pig farming. The trio are investing tens of millions of USD in the project, which was announced on February 6, 2018.