Syncing Silicon Valley’s Chinese Labs
Chinese tech companies with high revenue streams are pumping money into R&D and recruiting talents in the US with newly founded facilities.
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Global AI Industry updates.
Is Genome-editing CRISPR Ready to Leave the Lab?
The 2017 Harvard China Forum hosted a panel on “Futuristic Technologies & Innovations in AI and Biotech”, where Feng Zhang was invited to share insights on genome-editing.
The Humans Behind Artificial Intelligence
AI companies require accurate data for specialized applications, and seemingly little things such as labelling and tagging demand accuracy. At present, only humans are up for the task.
Artificial Intelligence is the New Electricity — Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng – former Baidu Chief Scientist, Coursera co-founder, and Stanford Adjunct Professor – gave a talk at the Stanford MSx Future Forum.
Interview with Tencent Big Data Technology Team: Tencent Launched Open-source Computing Platform Named Angel (Part Ⅱ)
Jie Jiang, Tencent’s big data platform director and the chief data expert, gave a speech on Tencent’s third generation open-source computing platform Angel.
Interview with Tencent Big Data Technology Team: Tencent Launched Open-source Computing Platform Named Angel (Part Ⅰ)
Tecent launched their third-generation computing platform in machine learning named Angel, and they would make this platform open source in early 2017.
Interview with Tencent AI Lab- Four Core Research Fields:Computer Vision, Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
Synced recently conducted a special interview with the Director of Tencent AI Lab Tong Zhang, to discuss about the strategic position and research focuses in Tencent.
Is Baidu the No. 1 Player on China’s National Team of Artificial Intelligence?
“The Internet is just an appetizer, whereas AI is the real entrée. The latter is not a part of the internet, not the second stage of the internet; it is technological revolution comparable to the industrial revolution.” – Robin Li, CEO of Baidu.
Mobvoi and Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Automation join forces and creates the Joint Laboratory of Language Intelligence and Human Machine Interaction
On March 29, The “Joint Laboratory of Language Intelligence and Human Machine Interaction” opened its doors in Beijing. This lab is the result of a collaboration between Chinese AI company Mobvoi and CASIA.
Alibaba Cloud Launches Machine Learning Platform “PAI 2.0”, Reducing AI’s Technical Threshold and Development Cost
On March 29, 2017, during the 2017 YunQi Computing Conference held in Shenzhen, Alibaba Cloud’s Chief Science Officer Dr Jingren Zhou officially launched the updated version of its machine learning platform “PAI 2.0”, intending to drastically reduce the technical threshold and development cost for AI.
What Does It Take For Intel To Seize The AI Market?
In this article we will provide some insights of Intel’s recent deep learning products.
Tencent Cloud’s Huang Ming on its New DI-X Deep Learning Platform
On March 28, Tencent Cloud launched its machine learning platform DI-X, with a goal of providing a one stop shop for its machine learning and deep learning customers.
Moving Toward Understanding Consciousness
Noë proposes his ideas towards current neuroscience research using reductionism approach is far from understanding the philosophy behind our consciousness.
The Future of Computing: Neuromorphic
Neuromorphic computing, a promising direction for future of computing that emulates human brain to maintain energy efficiency and fast computing speed.
Rework Machine Learning Summit in SF: AI is Teaching Robots to Chat
At Rework Machine Learning Summit at San Francisco, speakers from tech giants, as AI research labs and AI-related startups, are invited to present their latest study in machine learning.
Interview with Dr.Zhou Xi: Cloudwalk
Synced got a chance to interview with Dr. Zhou Xi . from personal experience to CouldWalk ‘s development and future trend.
Synced Exclusive Interview with “Fine Art” Team Lead: “Stronger Models though Brand New Reinforcement Learning Techniques”
Synced had the opportunity for an exclusive interview with Tecent AI Lab’s senior manager, team lead for Fine Art, Liu Yongsheng.
China’s National Engineering Laboratory of Deep Learning Technology was Established at Baidu Campus: We are the National Team of Deep Learning
March 2, 2017, the opening ceremony for China’s National Engineering Laboratory of Deep Learning Technology was held on the Baidu Campus.
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.
Pixel Recursive Super Resolution
Google released a method for recovering pictures from low resolution to high resolution using pixel recursive super resolution model.
ERICA: The ERATO Intelligent Conversational Android
ERICA, an autonomous android system capable of conversational interaction, and is arguably the most human-like android built to date.
Fei-fei Li in Google Cloud NEXT ’17: Annoucing Google Could Video Intelligence API, and more Cloud Machine Learning Updates
Between March 8-10, Synced was invited as media guest to attend the Google Cloud NEXT ’17 conference in San Francisco.
IBM Building First Universal Quantum Computers for Business and Science
On March 6th 2017, IBM announced the company’s initiative to build the first universal quantum computing system for commercial use in New York.
London: Deep Learning in Healthcare
At RE•WORK Summits, speakers are invited to present advances from the world’s leading innovators, showcase the opportunities in emerging health care industry
Baidu leads China’s Construction of the Upcoming National Engineering Laboratory of Deep Learning Technology and Application
Baidu will now take lead in building China’s National Engineering Laboratory of Deep Learning Technology and Application
Beyond Seq2Seq with Augmented RNNs by Edward Grefenstette, Google, Inc.
This talk summarizes the limitations of RNN (including LSTM, GRU), from both empirical and computational hierarchy mechanism perspectives.
Deep Learning in Industry with NVIDIA/Fine-grained Emotional Profiling
This talk is focused on the future potential of deep learning with NVIDIA Deep Learning SDK and GPU hardware families.
AI in News Reporting: Machines are Now Writing Dialogues, Q&As, and News Articles
Chief Scientist Lei Li of Toutiao discusses how to apply machine learning to natural language understanding and producing machine-written news articles
Monte Carlo Localization: Efficient Position Estimation for Mobile Robots
Sample-based Monte Carlo Localization is notable for its accuracy, efficiency, and ease of use in global localization and position tracking.
NVIDIA End-to-End Self-Driving
In a tech talk at University of Toronto, NVIDIA shared some updates regarding their research of self-driving car and End-to-End Learning
Interview with Andrew Ng：Many Leading AI Technologies were First Deployed in China
Synced had a special interview with Ng to learn more about the progress of AI research at Baidu, why and how he became an AI expert.
An Exclusive Interview with Maluuba: The World’s Fastest Growing AI Startup
computer science graduate student named Kaheer Suleman founded a company called Maluuba, using an intelligent program he invented as the product.
Top 10 AI News of 2016
2016 was full of ups, downs, and surprises: for the world and for AI.
Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence conference held by Creative Destruction Lab in Toronto
Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Richard Sutton and Ruslan Salakhutdinov Panel Summary at 2016 I was at the 2016 “Machine LearningContinue Reading