AI in 2018 Review; What to Expect in 2019
To welcome 2019 with some fresh AI insights, Synced posed three questions to forty researchers and experts at last month’s NeurIPS 2018 conference in Montréal, Canada.
Category: Interview
NeurIPS 2018 Best Paper Team: “Math Is Forever”
In an exclusive interview with Synced at NeurIPS, members of the University of Toronto and Vector Institute team led by Assistant Professor David Duvenaud discussed their winning submission Neural Ordinary Differential Equations — a math-based approach to designing deep learning models that is stimulating discussion across the machine learning community.
A Conversation With Quoc Le: The AI Expert Behind Google AutoML
A founding member of Google Brain and the mind behind AutoML, Quoc Le is an AI natural: he loves machine learning and loves automating things. Le used millions of YouTube thumbnails to develop an unsupervised learning system that recognized cats when he was a Stanford University PhD in 2011.
Baidu President Ya-Qin Zhang Talks AI Security
As Chinese Internet giant Baidu has expanded from search to mobile apps, cloud services, and emerging business sectors like autonomous driving and voice assistants, it has correspondingly beefed up its research efforts, particularly in AI, to keep pace with growing security threats.
MORE Health Co-Founder & UCSF Physician Robert Warren On AI in Health
Robert S. Warren, MD is a Professor of Surgery and a specialist in gastrointestinal and liver cancer. Dr. Warren joined UCSF Medical Center in 1988. Highly respected by his peers, Dr. Warren was named to the list of U.S. News “America’s Top Doctors,” a distinction reserved for the top 1% of physicians in the nation for a given specialty.
Where No Doctor Has Gone Before: AI Takes Telemedicine to Underserved Areas
MORE Health is a Silicon Valley-based company that provides access to top international physicians for patients faced with critical illnesses such as cancer or heart disease. The company was founded in 2013, and recently took a leap forward by partnering with Houston-based Melax Technologies…
Q&A With Microsoft Chief Speech Scientist Xuedong Huang
A performance boost of less than one percent may not seem like much to most people, but for Microsoft Global Technical Fellow and Chief Speech Scientist Xuedong Huang, it’s cause for celebration.
YITU CIO Hao Lu on AI Startups, Innovation, and Coming Home
While a Computer Science PhD candidate at the University of Washington, Hao focused on intelligent human-computer interaction research, and R&D and evaluation of intelligent systems and their tools.
Liulishuo’s AI App Is Teaching English to 70 Million People
Liulishuo is the AI English teacher on your phone. You don’t need to know how it works, yet it helps you learn English more efficiently than a human teacher,” says Yi Wang, Founder and CEO of Liulishuo — a Beijing-based “AI + language” company…
Program Lead Jake Lussier on Udacity’s New Flying Car Nanodegree
Online education platform Udacity thrilled flying car enthusiasts with its announcement of the world’s first flying car program.
Arm Accelerates its AI Efforts
Jem Davies, General Manager of the ARM Machine Learning Group, sat down with Synced to outline his company’s ambitious roadmap for machine learning development.
CES 2018 Just Got AI’ed
Algorithms are taking center stage at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2018, as exhibitors strive to out “smart” each other with AI-powered gadgets and appliances.
Meet Voice Pioneer Dr. Mei-Yuh Hwang
Mobvoi hired Dr. Mei-Yuh Hwang as its Vice President of Engineering in 2016. A respected speech recognition researcher and former Principle NLP Scientist Manager at Microsoft, Dr. Hwang is a pioneer in voice recognition and machine translation.
30 Years of Devotion to Natural Language Processing Based on Concepts
We interviewed Mr. Qiang Dong, chief scientist of Beijing YuZhi Language Understanding Technology Co. Ltd. and learned more about their YuZhi NLU Platform that conducts its unique semantic analysis based on concepts rather than words.
Relearn the Linguistic World in “Arrival”: An Interview with Jessica Coon
Computer science and machine learning scholars are increasingly interested in languages, and natural language processing has shown great progress as a result.
Lethal Autonomous Weapons & Info-Wars: A Scientist’s Warning
“To pretend science is morally neutral, and that you can develop anything and have clean hands because it is someone else using it to kill people is extremely naive, and scientists should know that.” – UC Berkeley’s Dr. Stuart Russell
1960s-2010s: Humanistic Intelligence and History of Wearable Computing
Personal computers and mobile devices are in their heyday. Researchers are swarming standalone AI, focusing on how to automate self-learning intelligent systems. The interfaces for wearables meanwhile are evolving from smart screens to gesture commands, like those often seen in AR and VR commercials.
The Time to Marry AI May Come Soon
Dr. Eisaku Maeda, the director of NTT Communication Science Laboratories, was recently interviewed by The Huffington Post, sharing his opinions on AI.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Interview with Dr.Richard Sutton: we might have strong AI algorithms by 2030
Professor Richard Sutton is considered to be one of the founding fathers of modern computational reinforcement learning. He made several significant contributions to the field, including temporal difference learning, policy gradient methods, and the Dyna architecture.
Interview with John Markoff : A prophet in the age of AI
Born in Oakland, California on October 29, 1949, John Markoff grew up in Palo Alto, California and graduated from WhitmanContinue Reading