Alibaba Launches Intelligent Search Business Department on Quark as Chinese Tech Giants Compete in the Search Space
Alibaba today announced the establishment of an Intelligent Search Business Department under the Alibaba Innovation Business Group.
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AI and the Fight Against Disease and the Coronavirus
How AI is helping fight COVID-19?
ICML 2020 Announces Accepted Papers
A total of 1,088 papers out of 4,990 submissions made it to the prestigious machine learning conference.
COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps – How Good Is Good Enough?
23 respected machine learning researchers propose that personalized peer-to-peer contact tracing through mobile apps has the potential to shift the paradigm of Covid-19 community spread.
How About Letting AI Take Care of Weather Forecasting?
With AI models gaining power and momentum across a number of industries in recent years, meteorological researchers are now applying the tech in satellite data processing, nowcasting, typhoon and extreme weather forecasting and other business and environmental analytics areas.
KDD 2020 Opens Registration for 26th Annual Conference With Fully Virtual Program
ACM SIGKDD Will Tap Cutting-Edge Technology to Bring Together the Leading Voices in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Bengio-Backed Startup Korbit Introduces STEM Intelligent Tutoring System
Canadian education technology startup Korbit Technologies has introduced a personalized AI-powered learning experience that it says can help all students learn faster and better in a cost-effective way.
Former Microsoft AI Head Harry Shum Joins Intelligent Local News Startup News Break as Chairman
Former Microsoft executive vice president of Artificial Intelligence and Research Harry Shum (Shen Xiangyang) has been appointed chairman of the board of the Silicon Valley startup News Break.
Introducing Paddle Quantum: How Baidu’s Deep Learning Platform PaddlePaddle Empowers Quantum Computing
Paddle Quantum is developed based on Baidu’s deep learning platform PaddlePaddle, which has become the first and unique deep learning platform in China that supports quantum machine learning.
Microsoft Build 2020 | World Top-5 Supercomputer With OpenAI, Microsoft Turing Models, Responsible ML Capabilities in AI Systems
The 48-hour digital event kicked off yesterday, and the company wasted no time making impactful announcements that included a new supercomputer, a family of large AI models, and a Responsible ML on Microsoft Azure initiative.
Neural Network AI is the Future of the Translation Industry
Recent advances in deep learning, also known as using neural machine learning, has proven to achieve state of the art results in machine translation.
How AI Is Transforming Financial Reimbursement
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are now widely used in tasks such as reimbursement specifications, automated financial statement generation, and content extraction.
Jensen Huang Serves Up the A100: NVIDIA’s Hot New Ampere Data Centre GPU
The A100 represents the largest leap in performance across the company’s eight GPU generations - a boost of up to 20x over its predecessors.
Japanese Unicorn Preferred Networks Releases First PyTorch Library
Japanese artificial intelligence startup Preferred Networks (PFN) today debuted its PyTorch library pytorch-pfn-extras (PPE).
GitHub Announces ‘Codespaces’ for In-Browser Coding
Codespaces is an in-browser integrated development environment (IDE) that lets users type their code directly on a GitHub website page.
Google’s Sidewalk Labs Walks Away from Toronto Smart City Project
Google affiliated company Sidewalk Labs announced today that it is no longer pursuing the development of Toronto’s Quayside smart city project.
AI Solutions for Healthier & Longer Pet Lives
The booming global pet care market is projected to grow to US$280 billion by 2025.
AI21 Labs Asks: How Much Does It Cost to Train NLP Models?
How much is this going to cost? And what are the main factors affecting that price tag?
SIGKDD Community Impact Program Opens Call for Proposals
SIGKDD is announcing a funding opportunity through its Community Impact Program.
Who Invented Backpropagation? Hinton Says He Didn’t, but His Work Made It Popular
Hinton, University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, responded on Reddit, “I have never claimed that I invented backpropagation.
Fujitsu Verifies AI Technology to Predict Vessel Collision Risks in Marine Traffic Control, Improves Maritime Safety
Fujitsu Limited announced the results of a joint field trial with the Japan Coast Guard to predict vessel collisions with AI technology
IJCAI – PRICAI 2020 | Papers Announced; Record Low 12.6% Acceptance Rate
The accepted papers have been announced for IJCAI – PRICAI 2020.
Landing AI ‘Social Distancing Detector’ Monitors Workplaces
Silicon Valley based Landing AI introduced a new AI-enabled social distancing detection tool designed to help monitor and enforce physical distancing protocols in workplaces.
AI-Powered Digital People
Synced has identified some interesting AI-powered virtual humans to introduce to our readers.
It’s Time to Improve the Scientific Paper Review Process – But How?
In recent years however peer review processes have come under fire - especially from the machine learning community - with complaints of long delays, inconsistent standards and unqualified reviewers.
EMNLP 2020 Moved Entirely Online; Postponed One Week
EMNLP 2020 will be held entirely online from November 16 to 18 due to the worldwide spread of COVID-19.
USA CDC Recruiting Its First Chief Data Officer
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is looking for a Chief Data Officer.
Fei-Fei Li Proposes AI-Assisted Elder Care Solution at Stanford-Hosted Virtual Conference on COVID‑19 and AI
Fei-Fei Li, Stanford computer science professor and co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute (HAI), shared her thoughts on possible AI technologies that could help care for the seniors during the coronavirus pandemic
Synced Machine Intelligence Awards Recognize Innovation: 50 Industry Leaders and 60 Solutions
The Synced Machine Intelligence Awards 2019 focus is on “the power of industry,” and the selection process keyed in on AI products, application cases and industry landings, with choices based on verifiable industry performance.
Women in AI | Chelsea Finn: ‘I Certainly Feel Like a Minority’
As part of the Women in AI special project, Synced spoke with Chelsea Finn, an assistant professor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.
Physical Distancing Boosts AI-Powered Online Education in China
Many artificial intelligent education institutions are offering free online courses and accounts to students.
WFH Parents: Here’s an AI Toybox for Your Kids!
Synced looked into smart solutions that could help keep kids engaged and entertained, and might even be educational.
China’s Autonomous Delivery Vehicles Navigate the Coronavirus Outbreak
In autonomous food and medicine delivery and beyond, the increasingly mature AI industry is actively engaged in countering the COVID-19 outbreak.
2019 Turing Award Honours Computer Graphics Pioneers Hanrahan and Catmull
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) this morning announced Patrick M. (Pat) Hanrahan and Edwin E. (Ed) Catmull as its 2019 Turing Award winners.
Learning From the 1854 Cholera Outbreak: Tracking and Containing COVID-19 Using AI Spatiotemporal Analysis
“In epidemiology analysis, the relationship between people in space and time is very important,” explains Bao Jie, head of the JD Group city data management platform, “and human activity trajectories are a typical form of spatiotemporal data.”
Beijing Self-Driving Vehicle Road Tests Topped One Million Km in 2019
A recent report suggests China has picked up speed, with Beijing emerging as a new self-driving vehicle hot spot.
Exploring Gender Imbalance in AI: Numbers, Trends, and Discussions
Women currently make up 24.4% of the computer science workforce and receive median salaries that are only 66% of the salaries of their male counterparts.
100M Masks/Day: Automated Production Lines Work Overtime to Stop COVID-19 Spread
Pushed by the coronavirus outbreak, in early March 2020 China’s face mask production hit 110 percent capacity, with daily output exceeding 100 million masks according to state agency statistics.
Former Microsoft AI Head Harry Shum Returns to Academia, Takes New Position With Tsinghua University
Shum will speak at China’s Tsinghua University in Beijing, where he will formally assume a Dual-Professorship position with the prestigious school’s Institute for Advanced Study.
CVPR 2020 Proceeding as Planned; Record 1470 Papers Accepted
The paper acceptance rate fell to approximately 22 percent from 25 percent in 2019 and 29.6 percent in 2018.