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Technical review of the newest machine intelligence research.
Meet Microsoft Suphx: The World’s Strongest Mahjong AI
At the Shanghai World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) on August 29, Microsoft’s Global Executive Vice President Harry Shum officially introduced MSRA’s Suphx (“Super Phoenix”) as “the most powerful Mahjong AI in history,”
Adversarial Patch on Hat Fools SOTA Facial Recognition
Researchers from Lomonosov Moscow State University and Huawei Moscow Research Center have introduced a wearable card designed to perform the opposite function — concealing a person’s identity from facial recognition systems.
AI Creates Fashion Models With Custom Outfits and Poses
A new research paper from Berlin-based unicorn fashion and technology company Zalando uses generative adversarial networks (GANs) to produce high-resolution images of virtual fashion models ready to model clothes of any style.
OpenAI Method Evaluates Model Defense Against Unforeseen Adversarial Examples
To ramp up the robustness of neural networks, researchers from OpenAI have introduced a novel method that evaluates how well a neural network classifier performs against adversarial attacks that were not seen during their training.
California Startup Builds Worlds Largest AI Chip; Open AI Releases 774M Parameter Language Model; Waymo Shares Its Open Dataset
Synced Global AI Weekly August 25th
Autonomous Delivery Moves From Research Labs to the Streets
According to multinational consulting firm McKinsey & Company, by the year 2025 some 85 percent of last-mile deliveries will be carried by autonomous vehicles.
Huawei’s First Commercial AI Chip Doubles the Training Performance of Nvidia’s Flagship GPU
Ascend 910 delivers performance of up to 256 teraFLOPS under FP16 and 512 teraOPS under IN8 with declared max power consumption of 310W.
MIT & Adobe Introduce Real Time AR Tool for Storytelling
Researchers from MIT Media Lab and Adobe Research recently introduced a real-time interactive augmented video system that enables presenters to use their bodies as storytelling tools by linking gestures to illustrative virtual graphic elements.
Shared Machine Learning: Ant Financial’s Solution For Data Privacy
One of the world’s largest financial companies, Alibaba subsidiary Ant Financial, recently introduced Shared Machine Learning (SML) as their solution for data privacy.
AutoML + GAN = AutoGAN! AI Can Now Design Better GAN Models Than Humans
Thanks to the creation of AutoML — which is essentially automated neural architecture search (NAS) — AI can now design better deep neural networks than human researchers for computer vision tasks such as image classification and object detection.
How to Hide Your Feelings From AI Voice Assistants
No matter whether the conversations commence with “Ok, Google”, “Hello Alexa”, or “Hey Siri”, tech giants Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft have all granted third-party contractors access to their users’ many interactions with voice assistants.
Seoul National University AI Uses Text Tags to Colourize Line Drawings
Let’s say you’ve just sketched a portrait but don’t have the inclination to hand-colour your creation. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could simply tell an artificial intelligence assistant what colours you want and have it do the rest? Well, now you can!
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.
Of Mice and Machines: Can AI Read Rodents’ Minds?
Researchers from Two Six Labs and Stanford Schnitzer Lab have developed a deep learning system designed to explore the workings of the mouse mind and predict behavior by processing brain-based electrical activity with a neural network.
A Trio of Machine Learning & Language Technology Breakthroughs You Shouldn’t Miss
Synced Global AI Weekly August 18th
DeepMind ‘Bsuite’ Evaluates Reinforcement Learning Agents
Now AI researchers have created a similar evaluation system to assess the relative performance of reinforcement learning (RL) systems across different tasks.
Israeli AI Research Company Led by Stanford Professor and MobileEye CEO Introduces Model to Solve Text Ambiguity
Israeli research company AI21 Labs today published the paper SenseBERT: Driving Some Sense into BERT, which proposes a new model that significantly improves lexical disambiguation abilities and has obtained state-of-the-art results on the complex Word in Context (WiC) language task.
Facebook, Georgia Tech & OSU ‘ViLBERT’ Achieves SOTA on Vision-and-Language Tasks
A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Facebook AI Research and Oregon State University has proposed ViLBERT (Vision-and-Language BERT), a novel model for visual grounding that can learn joint representations of image content and natural language.
Does Deep Learning Still Need Backpropagation?
Now, researchers from the Victoria University of Wellington School of Engineering and Computer Science have introduced the HSIC (Hilbert-Schemidt independence criterion) bottleneck as an alternative to backpropagation for finding good representations.
New Snip Smartphone App Converts Math Screenshots Into LaTeX
Not so long ago, mathematics students and researchers had to spend a tedious amount of time writing out equations in the technical and scientific documentation typesetting system LaTeX.
PyTorch 1.2 Supports Transformer and Tensorboard; Summer Hackathon Announced
PyTorch v1.2 brings the machine learning community further improvements, including official support for Transformer, TensorBoard, and more.
Tencent-backed Video App Kuaishou Is Turning Chinese Country Folk Into Hollywood Directors
Thanks to social video app Kuaishou and its plug-and-play tools, even rural Chinese with cheap smartphones are quickly and easily producing short videos featuring Hollywood-style special effects.
DeepMind Loses $572M; KDD 2019 Best Papers; AI for Wildlife Conservation
Synced Global AI Weekly August 11st
Google AI & DeepMind Temporal Cycle-Consistency Learning Understands Every Video Frame
Frame-by-frame fine-grained labeling is however a time-consuming task. To tackle this problem, researchers from Google AI and DeepMind have introduced a novel self-supervised learning method called Temporal Cycle-Consistency Learning (TCC).
Semantic Based Adversarial Examples Fool Face Recognition
Researchers have proposed a new adversarial attack approach, SemanticAdv, which generates adversarial perturbations by manipulating not pixels but rather an image’s semantic attributes.
AI Analyzes Chess Commentary to Learn to Play Chess
What if an AI could learn to play Chess based only on human game commentary? That interesting task has been tackled by SentiMATE, a new Chess algorithm proposed by University College London.
South Korean Game Developer’s AI Turns Your Selfie Into an Anime Face
Last month a team of South Korean researchers proposed a method that uses unsupervised image translation to transform a simple selfie into a classic Japanese-style anime face.
Chinese Video Streaming Giant Introduces Anime Facial ID Dataset
In a bid to combine anime and cartoon culture with machine learning, a research team from China’s leading video streaming service iQIYI has introduced a novel large unconstrained cartoon dataset they call “iCartoonFace.”
KDD 2019 Announces Best Paper Awards
KDD 2019 features both a Research track and an Applied Data Science (ADS) track, and today organizers announced their Best Paper Awards.
Harvard Researchers Benchmark TPU, GPU & CPU for Deep Learning
Because training deep learning models requires intensive computation, AI researchers are always on the lookout for new and better hardware and software platforms for their increasingly sophisticated models.
ACL 2019 Announces Best Papers; Nature Covers Tianjic Chip; Baidu Releases ERNIE 2.0
Synced Global AI Weekly August 4th
Facebook AI Memory Layer Boosts Network Capacity by a Billion Parameters
Recently, Facebook AI Research (FAIR) researchers introduced a structured memory layer which can be easily integrated into a neural network to greatly expand network capacity and the number of parameters without significantly changing calculation cost.
Robot Masters String Puppetry
A group of researchers from ETH Zurich have introduced a robotic system that can perform animation of real-world string puppets, aka marionettes.
ACL 2019 | Best Papers Announced
The ACL 2019 organizing committee announced its eight paper awards: Best Long Paper, Best Short Paper, Best Demo Paper, and five Outstanding Paper awards.
Nature Cover Story | Chinese Team’s ‘Tianjic Chip’ Bridges Machine Learning and Neuroscience in Pursuit of AGI
Today, respected scientific journal Nature boosted the case for AGI with a cover story on a new research paper, Towards artificial general intelligence with hybrid Tianjic chip architecture, which aims to stimulate AGI development by adopting generalized hardware platforms.
Baidu’s ERNIE 2.0 Beats BERT and XLNet on NLP Benchmarks
Today, the research division of the Chinese search giant released their updated ERNIE 2.0, a pretrained language understanding model with significant improvements.
Julia Computing & MIT Introduce Differentiable Programming System Bridging AI and Science
A research team from Julia Computing and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology propose that extensive scientific computing and machine learning domains both require linear algebra support on their underlying structures.
New Multilingual Video Description Dataset VATEX Receives Three Strong Accepts at ICCV
This paper presents a new large-scale multilingual video description dataset, covering over 41,250 videos and 825,000 captions in both Chinese and English.
Animated Selfies and Other AI Image Processing Magic
The new AI-powered Animate feature on Meitu’s signature selfie app brings still pictures to life with floral auras, resplendent butterflies, flowing hair, petal bursts, flame nebulas, fireworks and more.