South Korea’s Gwangju City Applies AI to City Governance
According to reports on January 20, South Korea’s Gwangju is adopting integrated AI technology to help with city governance.
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McGill Researchers Use AI to Manage Extreme Weather Events
On January 18, in efforts to understand and manage extreme weather events, McGill University announced a new interdisciplinary project to combine deep learning (DL) with social network analysis (SNA).
Trump Administration Cuts Off Licenses for Huawei Chips Suppliers Including Intel
According to a report from Reuters, the Trump administration has notified Intel among others, that their supplier licenses to Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei have been revoked.
Kenyan-Developed APP Utilizes ML to Predicate the Migration and Breeding of Locusts
Kuzi is using satellite data, soil sensor data, ground meteorological observation and machine learning technology trained on predict the locusts’ breeding, appearance and migration routes.
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2020 in Review With Tatsuya Nagata
Synced has invited Mr. Tatsuya Nagata, the COO of Navier Inc., to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.
2020 in Review: 10 AI Failures
This is the fourth Synced year-end compilation of “Artificial Intelligence Failures.” Our aim is not to shame nor downplay AI research, but to look at where and how it has gone awry with the hope that we can create better AI systems in the future.
2020 in Review: 8 New AI Regulatory Proposals from Governments
As part of our year-end series, Synced has compiled a global list of proposals, rules and regulatory frameworks for AI introduced in 2020.
2020 in Review: 10 AI-Powered Tools Tackling COVID-19
As part of our year-end series, Synced highlights 10 AI-powered efforts that contributed to the fight against COVID-19 in 2020.
Baidu Releases ML Bio-computing Framework PaddleHelix
At the Wave Summit 2020 held on December 20, Baidu unveiled the company’s newest ML-based bio-computing framework named “PaddleHelix”.
IPU Maker Graphcore Raises USD222 Million in Series E Funding Round
Graphcore has announced that it has raised USD 222 million in a Series E funding round that will boost company value to USD 2.77 billion.
Singapore Coffee Shop Builds a Robot Barista With Intel AI
At Crown Coffee, a small-yet-homey coffee bar in downtown Singapore, the autonomous robot barista “Ella” never gets your order wrong.
AI “Sounce” is the Noise Detector to Porsche Cars
Porsche Digital, the subsidiary of the Stuttgart-based sports car manufacturer, has unveiled digital assistant ‘Sounce’ offers an improved ability to detect noise – for example, during vehicle component tests.
Zhengzhou China Launches Urban-Brain to Triage and Park 4.5 million Vehicles
China’s east-central city Zhengzhou has successfully used AI to triage parking for over 4.5 million vehicles in the area.
China Drafts 14th Five-Year Digital Economy Plan; AI Industry Scale in 1H 2020 Reach USD 11.7 Billion
China is accelerating the preparation of the “14th Five-Year” digital economy plan, which will be the country’s first designated plan for the digital economy.
IEEE: AI, ML, 5G and IoT will be the Most Important Technologies in 2021
Recent IEEE study released the results of a survey of Chief Information Officers and Chief Technology Officers in the U.S., U.K., China, India and Brazil.
ABB Shanghai Future Robot Factory to Open December Next Year with Production Capacity Reaching 100k Units
ABB announced an investment of RMB 1 billion to build a new robot super factory in Shanghai, which began construction in 2019.
AI Patent Application Exceeds 30,000 and 180 Universities Add AI Majors in China Last Year
Among the top 100 highly cited AI papers in the past five years, China’s output accounted for 21 and rank second globally.
German Startup’s “AI Expert Roadmap” Gets 3.5k GitHub Stars
A new AI Expert Roadmap developed by German software company AMAI is garnering keen interest from aspiring AI professionals around the world.
Tesla Rolls Out ‘Full Self-Driving’ Beta; Critics Apply the Brakes
Tesla’s FSD (Full Self-Driving) Beta has wowed fans, but others say FSD isn’t fully autonomous at all, tweeting videos with drivers having to take over vehicles
A Look at Google’s Efforts to Earn Public Trust Through ML Fairness and Responsible AI
“Trust in AI systems is becoming, if not already, the biggest barrier for enterprises — as they start to move from exploring AI or potentially piloting or doing some proof of concept works into deploying AI into a production system”
Beijing to Open 100 Unmanned Taxi Stations
Self-driving taxis began to fully operate in Beijing and the weekly number of orders per day during the peak period has exceeded 2,600.
Uber to Establish $150 Million Joint Venture with SK Telecom to Expand in South Korea
South Korea’s SK Telecom plans to split up its ride-hailing department “T Map Mobility” by the end of this year, to create a service company with more than 200,000 drivers and 750,000 taxi users per month.
China’s Automatic Agricultural Equipment and System Sales Increased By 213% YoY in 1H 2020
From January to June 2020, China sold more than 11,700 sets of automatic agricultural machinery and systems, a year-on-year increase of 213 percent.
Jenson Huang’s Kitchen Keynote Outlines NVIDIA’s Vision for the ‘Age of AI’
The GTC kicked off with the release of nine Nvidia keynote video with major announcements in data centers, edge AI, collaboration tools and healthcare.
PyTorch / XLA Library Reaches General Availability on Google Cloud
It was announced yesterday in a PyTorch blog post that the PyTorch / XLA library, a package that enables PyTorch to connect to Google TPUs and use TPU cores as devices, is now generally available on Google Cloud, with support for a broad set of entry points for developers.
AI and Smart City Societies Signed MoU to Boost Innovations in Bahrain
A memorandum of understanding was signed between the Bahrain-based Artificial Intelligence Society and Bahrain Smart City Society to accelerate digital transformation in the country.
101 Telecom Operators Worldwide Have Launched 5G Commercial Services; 397 Are Investing
101 operators worldwide have launched one or more 5G commercial services that comply with 3GPP standards in 44 countries or regions.
Japan Builders and Tech Companies Ready to Launch Autonomous Ships by 2025
A consortium of 40 Japanese shipbuilders, shipping companies and tech firms have gathered to produce self-navigating shipping vessels.
Counterpoint: Average Global Price of Smartphones Have Risen by 10 Percent; China’s 5G Phone Shipments Have Increased Sharply
In the second quarter of 2020, increase of 5G phone shipments prompted the average selling price of global smartphone market to increase by 10 percent.
AI Is Making Robots More Fun
The market size of physical and interactive social and entertainment robots is expected to hit US$3.7 billion by 2023.
Insilico Releases Pandomics, AI-Powered Platform for Novel Therapeutic Target Discovery
A novel end-to-end AI-hypothesis generation engine that seamlessly interprets OMICS and text-based data for the discovery and analysis of novel therapeutic targets.
Microsoft Gets Exclusive License for OpenAI’s GPT-3 Language Model
Microsoft announced today that it has teamed up with OpenAI to exclusively license the AI research institute’s GPT-3 language model.
Beijing Officials Announce the City’s 5G Users Surpass 5 Million Benchmark
The Beijing Municipal Administration of Communications revealed that the number of 5G users in Beijing exceeded 5 million.
University of Toronto Spinoff Bridge7 Uses AI to Improve Cancer Treatment
Launched via the U of T Early-Stage Technology program (UTEST), Canadian startup Bridge7 is applying AI to improve the quality, consistency, and efficiency of cancer treatments.
Cheetah Mobile Deploys 8,000 Shopping Mall Robots Boosting Offline Retail
Cheetah Mobile has successfully deployed 8,000 AiM Robots (AiM: Attract, interact and Mindset) in 962 shopping malls across 33cities in China.
Baidu World 2020 Conference Showcases AI for Autonomous Driving and Virtual Assistant
Chinese tech giant Baidu hosted Baidu World 2020 conference under the theme of “Intelligence of Everything”, unveiling new flagship products and AI upgrades.
Baidu Launches Smart Earbuds “XiaoduPods” and Announces DuerOS Upgrades
Chinese tech giant Baidu unveiled the latest version of conversational AI system DuerOS 6.0 and launched smart earbuds “XiaoduPods”, which fulfills more user needs including elderly care and smart hotel.
Insilico Medicine announces the launch of AI-powered COVIDomic to support COVID-19 research worldwide
Insilico Medicine announced the launch of a new system for COVID-19 basic and clinical research.
Preferred Networks and Mitsui Establish Joint Venture for Deep Learning-Based Subsurface Structure Analysis
Preferred Networks announced that PFN and Mitsui established a new joint venture Mit-PFN Energy to develop and commercialize a deep learning-based AI solution for subsurface structure analysis.
China’s Service Robot Market Accounts for More Than a Quarter of the Global Market, Expected to Exceed US$4 Billion in 2020
China’s service robot market is accounting for more than a quarter of the global market and is expected to exceed US$4 billion in 2020.