Deep Learning Pioneers Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio Elected as AAAI-20 Fellows
The AAAI has announced the election of ten AAAI 2020 Fellows — including AI pioneers and 2018 Turing Award Winners Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio.
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Training SOTA Language Models With Three Lines of Code
Hugging Face, a startup specializing in natural language processing, today released a landmark update to their popular Transformers library, offering unprecedented compatibility between two major deep learning frameworks, PyTorch and TensorFlow 2.0.
Huawei Flexes AI Muscle With New Mate 30 Gesture Control and Smart Rotation
Chinese tech giant Huawei yesterday introduced the latest iteration of its flagship smartphone: Mate 30, Mate 30 Pro and Mate 30 Pro (5G).
China Prohibits ‘Deepfake’ AI Face Swapping Techniques
China’s Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress has amended its Civil Code Personality Rights (Draft) to stipulate that no organization or individual may infringe the portrait rights of others by means of digital technology forgery.
Beep! Beep! Huawei Gets Into Car Systems
At the Auto Shanghai 2019 Key Tech Forum yesterday Huawei Rotating Chairman Eric Xu unveiled the company’s plan to provide information and communication technology (ICT) to OEMs to help them build better vehicles.
ReWork Deep Learning in Finance Summit
The recent ReWork Deep Learning in Finance Summit in London, UK, featured 46 top scientists and professors from world-leading institutions, who presented their research progress and provided a glimpse into emerging trends in the field of artificial intelligence and fin tech.
Google Cloud Next | New Hybrid Cloud ‘Anthos,’ Partnerships, Data Centres
Artificial intelligence and machine learning have become powerful tools for tech giants looking to build the optimal cloud service platform. To catch up with rivals Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, Google is accelerating the development of its own cloud services.
AI Fools’ Day: Tech Giants’ Top Pranks
Today is April Fool’s Day, and despite Microsoft’s efforts to ban such pranks, many tech companies could not resist joining in the centuries-old spoofing tradition. However, given the already incredible achievements of cutting-edge AI technologies, some of today’s hoaxes actually look pretty convincing.
Let Boston Dynamics ‘Handle’ That Package
In a scene that looks like it’s from a sci-fi movie, a YouTube video posted today by robotics company Boston Dynamics shows a huge, ostrich-like robot “Handle” whirling round while deftly moving boxes in a warehouse. The video has garnered over 138,000 views in less than four hours.
Hinton, LeCun & Bengio Named 2018 ACM Turing Award Laureates
The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) this morning announced Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio as its 2018 Turing Award winners.
Preferred Networks Builds State-Of-The-Art Supercomputer Mn-2 Powered With Nvidia GPUs
Preferred Networks (PFN) is completing a new private supercomputer, MN-2, which the Japanese AI startup expects to have operational in July 2019.
Stanford University Launches ‘Human-Centered’ AI Institute Led by John Etchemendy & Fei-Fei Li
Last October Stanford University announced plans to create an institute built for artificial intelligence research and development. Today, the school made good on its pledge, launching the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (Stanford HAI) with a mission “to advance AI research, education, policy, and practice to improve the human condition.”
Google Debuts TensorFlow 2.0 Alpha
TensorFlow is the world’s most popular open source machine learning library. Since its initial release in 2015, the Google Brain product has been downloaded over 41 million times. At this week’s 2019 TensorFlow Dev Summit, Google announced a major upgrade on the framework, the TensorFlow 2.0 Alpha version.
New Funding Pushes Chinese AI Chipmaker Horizon Robotics’ Valuation to $3Bn
Beijing-based AI chip startup Horizon Robotics today announced a staggering US$600 million in Series B funding led by South Korea conglomerate SK Group. The investment brings Horizon’s value to an estimated US$3 billion, making it the world’s highest-valued AI chip startup.
California Startup GTI Releases AI Chips to Challenge NVIDIA and Intel
In his 1988 IEEE paper Cellular Neural Networks: Theory, UC Berkeley PhD student Lin Yang proposed Cellular Neural Network theory, a predecessor of the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) that would later revolutionize machine learning. Based on this theory, Yang blueprinted a 20*20 parallel simulated circuit chip in the university lab.
Meet Fujitsu’s AI Gymnastics Judges
The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) recently approved the use of a “Judging Support System” developed by Fujitsu for a series of FIG gymnastics events in 2019. The system will be tested at the 2019 FIG World Cup Series, then officially launched for the 49th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany this coming October.
Online Journal Nature Machine Intelligence Goes Live
In late 2017, popular scientific journal Nature announced plans to debut a new online publication, Nature Machine Intelligence, in earlyContinue Reading
A Peek Inside Andrew Ng’s “AI Transformation Playbook”
Andrew Ng is touting his new, free, AI Transformation Playbook. The 12 page online document is a unique package of artificial intelligence tricks aimed at the increasing number of CEOs who want to transform their companies by introducing AI technologies. The AI mastermind and founder of Landing.ai released the playbook today.
Fastai 1.0 for PyTorch: “There’s Nothing Better Out There”
In conjunction with yesterday’s release of open source AI software framework PyTorch 1.0, leading deep learning course developer Fast.ai has announced its first open source library for deep learning — fastai v1.
Huawei Introduces Kirin 980: 7nm & Many World Firsts
At the IFA 2018 in Berlin today Huawei unveiled the new Kirin 980, the world’s first 7nm smartphone SoC (system-on-a-chip) with a dual-core NPU (Neural Network Processing Unit).
The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Designed for AI Computation
The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee today introduced the world’s fastest supercomputer Summit, whose computing power reaches 200 petaflops or 200 million billion calculations per second.
Andrew Ng Warns of Centralized AI Power
One of the biggest risks involved with AI is “it tends to concentrate power in hands of fewer individuals,” warns Andrew Ng, one of the AI’s most prestigious figures.
Will New EU Regulations Starve Data-Hungry Deep Learning Models?
The GDPR mandates that all customers or users are entitled to receive “specific information” regarding the decision. This raises the issue of AI interpretability, especially in deep learning systems.
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.
Gary Marcus’ Deep Learning Critique Triggers Backlash
It took a mere 72 hours for deep learning researchers to ignite the first AI Twitter debate of 2018.
Nature’s Machine Intelligence Journal to Launch in Jan 2019
Nature will publish the first issue of Machine Intelligence in January 2019. The new journal will cover the “best research from across the field of artificial intelligence,” ranging from machine learning, robotics and human-machine interactions to ethical, legal and societal dimensions of AI.
Vinci Sets the Tone for Smart Headphones
This week, Synced sat down with Wu, who is now Inspero’s CTO, and tried out the Vinci, the standalone intelligent headphones.
iPhone X Mask Dupe Raises AI Security Concerns
Machines have already beaten humans in image recognition accuracy, but they are also susceptible to errors. Last Friday, Vietnamese company Bkav announced they had outsmarted the AI-powered image recognition machine that unlocks the new iPhone X.
Petuum Closes $93 Million in Series B Funding Led by SoftBank
PITTSBURGH, PA – October 10, 2017 – Petuum, Inc., a machine learning (ML) infrastructure platform, has closed $93 million in Series B fundingContinue Reading