PyTorch 1.3 Released; News From Arm TechCon 2019; Are Deepfakes More Dangerous Than Imagined?
Synced Global AI Weekly October 13rd
Category: Industry
Global AI Industry updates.
How AI Is Modernizing Chinese Agriculture
In recent years frontier technologies such as AI, big data, IoT, and 3S technology (RS remote sensing technology, GIS geographic information systems, and GPS global positioning systems), have been aggressively deployed to accelerate the modernization of Chinese agriculture.
Facebook Debuts PyTorch 1.3 With PyTorch Mobile, Quantization, TPU Support and More
The latest version, PyTorch 1.3, includes PyTorch Mobile, quantization, and Google Cloud TPU support. The release was announced today at the PyTorch Developer Conference in San Francisco.
Open Source Hardware Trends, Arm Takes a Different Tack
Although the term “open source” conveys sentiments such as research sharing and community building, leading semiconductor IP provider Arm, which supports 95 percent of smartphone embedded processors, is not a fan.
Is NVIDIA Doubling Down On RISC-V?
The US chip giant now appears to be exploring the terrain beyond GPU architecture, raising the stakes on other dedicated electronic circuits.
Can AI Assist in Suicide Prevention?
Figures from nonprofit organization Mental Health America show the severe depression rate for US youth increased from 5.9 to 8.2 percent over the last five years. The numbers provide a sobering glimpse of the shortcomings in mental health care, and some researchers are suggesting AI might be able to address the problem.
ARM and Qualcomm Will Continue to Supply Huawei Despite US Ban
Chinese news outlet Caixin is reporting that UK-based chip designer ARM confirmed on Wednesday it will continue to license its chip design architecture to Chinese tech giant Huawei and the company’s chip unit HiSilicon Technologies despite a US trade ban.
Alibaba’s New AI Chip Can Process Nearly 80K Images Per Second
At the Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) Apsara Conference 2019, Pingtouge unveiled its first AI dedicated processor for cloud-based large-scale AI inferencing. The Hanguang 800 is the first semiconductor product in Alibaba’s 20-year history.
Amazon ML Director Begins DeepMind Professorship at Cambridge
The University of Cambridge has appointed Professor Neil Lawrence as its first DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning, a new position supported by Google-owned, UK-based AI research company DeepMind.
AI vs AI: ‘FakeSpotter’ Studies Neurons to Bust DeepFakes
“Adversaries and strategic competitors probably will attempt to use deep fakes or similar machine-learning technologies to create convincing — but false — image, audio, and video files to augment influence campaigns directed against the United States and our allies and partners.”
Open AI Agents Play Hide-and-Seek; Google Invests $3.3B in Clean Data Centers; Cambridge Appoints First DeepMind Professor of ML
Synced Global AI Weekly September 22nd
AI Visualizes Your Post Cosmetic Surgery Appearance
Cosmetic surgery companies are turning to big data, facial recognition, neural networks, adversarial learning and deep learning technologies that can assess the human face and generate outcomes for a specific procedures to guide patients to their best surgical options.
RE•WORK AI in Finance | Federated AI, Reinforcement Learning and BERT
At last week’s Re•Work AI in Finance Conference in New York, researchers and engineers from banks and academia alike shared their thoughts on current AI research and applications in the finance world.
RE•WORK AI in Insurance Summit NYC 2019: AI Underwriting, Fraud Detection, and More
The Re•Work AI in Insurance Summit in New York City was held September 5-6 and saw 60 speakers from insurance-related companies cover a wide range of topics — from detecting claims fraud to applying machine learning to underwriting and maximizing revenue.
Apple A13 Bionic VS Huawei Kirin 990 5G; Is $1 Billion AI Investment Not Enough?; R.I.P Python 2
Synced Global AI Weekly September 15th
LiDAR Industry Hits Impasse: Was Elon Musk Right After All?
Since the business mindset is to focus on short-term feasible technologies, the lack of serious buyers is the real problem for the LiDAR industry.
IEEE Ranks Robot Creepiness: Sophia Is Not Even Close to the Top
Based on users’ votes, IEEE Spectrum also compiles rankings of today’s Top Rated, Most Wanted, and Creepiest Robots. Join Synced as we take a stroll through the uncanny valley and meet the world’s top-three creepiest robots.
AI Chip Duel: Apple A13 Bionic VS Huawei Kirin 990 5G
“A13 Bionic is the fastest chip ever in a smartphone, that quickly handles the tasks that matter most to people every day,” boasted Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller this morning at the Apple’s annual product conference in Cupertino, California.
R.I.P. Python 2: October 16, 2000 – January 1, 2020
In an official statement released today on python.org, the volunteer team that manages the programming language announced they will sunset Python 2 on January 1, 2020.
Top 10 Chinese Cities for AI Development: Beijing Ranks No. 1
China’s goal of becoming the world’s leading AI innovation center by 2030 is based on an ambitious blueprint that encourages individual cities to develop and strengthen AI ecosystems.
AI-Powered Stickers and Emojis Deliver Next-Gen Personalisation
More and more social apps are now leveraging AI technologies such as machine learning, deep neural networks and facial recognition to enable users to create highly-individualized emojis from selfies and photos.
Huawei Introduces World’s First Flagship 5G SoC in Challenge to Samsung and Qualcomm
Huawei did not disappoint when the IFA 2019 opened this morning, announcing the new Kirin 990 5G, whose built-in 5G modem makes it the world’s first-ever 5G flagship chipset.
Why AI Is Reading Your Resume and What Can You Do About It
Artificial intelligence can help companies navigate a global human resource market that is projected to reach US$30 billion by 2025, due in large part to technological proliferation.
Data Annotation: The Billion Dollar Business Behind AI Breakthroughs
Most insiders Synced interviewed agreed that machine learning training methods which require less labeled data — such as weakly supervised learning, few-shot learning and unsupervised learning — are achieving some promising results.
Humans Don’t Realize How Biased They Are Until AI Reproduces the Same Bias, Says UNESCO AI Chair
In a recent interview with Synced, Shawe-Taylor spoke on his role at UNESCO, emerging AI trends and the tech’s unseemly side, human-centered AI research, and the progress of AI in Europe.
Hot Chips | A California Startup Has Built an AI Chip as Big as a Notebook. Why?
California artificial intelligence startup Cerebras Systems yesterday introduced its Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE), the world’s largest-ever chip built for neural network processing.
A Trio of Machine Learning & Language Technology Breakthroughs You Shouldn’t Miss
Synced Global AI Weekly August 18th
Why Automation Isn’t the Answer to Smart Manufacturing
While management teams and consultants may spout trendy tech terms such as “process”, “automated”, or “smart”, and seem keen to hand over precisely-timed, measured tasks to machines, the truth is that AI tech is not a panacea — because manufacturing is hard.
AI Provides Solutions for the Japanese Fishing Industry
This article looks at three Japanese cases where AI is being applied either in large-scale aquaculture or to improve yields in traditional capture fishing.
Tencent AI Trounces Pro Team in China’s #1 Mobile Game
China’s largest game-maker Tencent recently took a huge leap when its homegrown AI system Wukong AI (绝悟) trounced a human pro team in China’s most popular mobile game Honor of Kings (王者荣耀), aka Arena of Valor.
AI & New Retail: Recent Developments and Future Trends
The traditional retail industry is facing challenges as the rapid development and continuous improvement of AI tools and techniques ushers in the era of New Retail.
Greening AI | New AI2 Initiative Promotes Model Efficiency
Researchers at the Seattle Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) have proposed a Green AI initiative designed to make future AI research more energy efficient.
Cars, Cockpits, & Intelligent Pilot
A hot topic today is Intelligent Pilot Systems, an automotive driving concept comprising a smart vehicle assistant that enables a user to interact with the vehicle via voice; and intelligent mechanized function control for car entertainment, safety, autonomous driving and navigation.
Huawei’s First 5G Phone, the Mate 20 X 5G, Hits the Chinese Market
The wait is over. This morning Huawei released its first 5G phone, the Mate 20 X 5G, in China. The phone was launched earlier this year in Switzerland and several other countries.
Robot Music Through the Ages
With recent developments in artificial intelligence and automation in machines, robots are advancing into previously unexplored industries such as music and entertainment.
2019 Google Scholar Metrics Released, CVPR Cracks the Top Ten
Estimates peg the total number of academic papers and other scholarly literature indexed on the Google Scholar at almost 400 million, making it the world’s largest such database.
One Year Countdown: Readying AI Security for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
This time next year an expected 10 million foreign visitors and millions of Japanese from Hokkaido to Okinawa will converge on the Tokyo Metropolis for the Games of the XXXII Olympiad.
How NLP Is Advancing Asset Management
Although natural language processing (NLP) has been around for decades, the recent and rapid rise of deep learning algorithms together with the increasing availability of massive amounts of text data are creating new and appealing opportunities for the tech across many industry sectors, including in the investment world.
A New Paradigm for Production in the AI Era
Artificial intelligence is having a revolutionary effect on industrial production. In the following article, Baidu Ventures Partner and Founder of Comet Labs Saman Farid shares his thoughts on recent changes and future trends in Machine learning-driven production philosophies and technologies.
Are Commercial Labs Stealing Academia’s AI Thunder?
Commercial research labs run by Google Research, DeepMind, and OpenAI are taking central stage in the artificial intelligence era. The eye-popping achievements of these massively-funded AI labs are constantly producing headlines in tech journals and even mainstream media.