AI Technology & Industry Review
Woebot is designed to identify, evaluate and treat mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, and stress disorders based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), one of the most widely used mental health treatment frameworks.
AI academics from around the world are pouring into New Orleans for the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
At CES 2018, 555 companies or organizations participated in the “Automotive/Vehicle Technology” category, 23% of which were companies using autonomous driving technologies.
Andrew Ng today announced the foundation of “AI Fund,” aimed at supporting startups that can transform businesses with AI technologies.
At the RE•WORK AI Assistant Summit San Francisco yesterday, research scientists and engineers from Amazon, Apple and Google spoke on how they are addressing challenges and evolving their conversational AI systems.
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.
Amazon and Alibaba’s brick-and-mortar-but-no-staff shops offer very different user experiences. To bring you first-hand feedback, Synced visited them.
CES exhibitors promoted everything from AI-powered vehicles to smart refrigerators and robot puppies. But the tech driving these diverse products was the same: the virtual assistant, a conversational AI that can understand human speech and generate humanlike responses.
It’s no surprise that tech companies are eager to stay abreast of AI developments. When they’re not luring AI talents with huge compensation packages, they’re on the lookout for AI startups suitable for acquisition.
According to official statistics, NIPS 2017 in Long Beach, California was the most popular yet, attracting over 8,000 registered attendees, up 2,000 from last year.
Engineers have long struggled to teach robots how to perform actions that appear simple by human standards. Former OpenAI research scientist Peter Chen believes the solution is transforming such robots into teachable apprentices.
One of the top minds in artificial intelligence, Andrew Ng believes “AI is the new electricity.” However few industries canContinue Reading
Google’s Ali Rahimi put it bluntly in his NIPS presentation: “Machine learning has become alchemy.” The words triggered Facebook’s Yann LeCun to fight back.
NIPS has become the world’s leading conference on machine learning and computational neuroscience, with 8,000 attendees flocking to Long Beach, California this week for NIPS 2017, the most popular yet.
Google’s DeepMind has once again surprised the machine learning community, this time with the introduction of AlphaZero — a new algorithm that can quickly surpass human board game performance through reinforcement learning self-play.
Nobody knows neuromorphic computing better than Dr. Yiran Chen, who last week published a definitive paper on the subject in the prestigious very-large-scale-integration (VLSI) Journal Integration.
The Conference on Neural Information Processing (NIPS) kicks off today in Long Beach, California and runs to December 9.
Zhou Yu, the 29-year-old assistant professor at UC Davis is teaching robots to understand the nuances of non-verbal communication and use them to their advantage.
At last week’s Collaborative Robotics and Advanced Vision Conference in San Jose, John Petry from Cognex stressed the need for robotic technology companies to provide maintainable deep learning-based solutions for their manufacturing customers.
The conference was held November 17-19th, and attracted research scientists, industry influencers, venture investors, and entrepreneurs from the Greater Boston Area.
This week, Synced sat down with Wu, who is now Inspero’s CTO, and tried out the Vinci, the standalone intelligent headphones.
Electric, automated, and stormtrooper-shiny: the Tesla Semi debuted yesterday in Hawthorne, California.
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.
Dileep George and D. Scott Phoenix are confident they’re on the right path to achieve AGI with unique solutions combining machine learning and the human brain itself.
The success AI has achieved in image recognition has prompted tech companies to explore the new field of video understanding, in which machines are trained to answer questions like “Who is in this video?” or “What are the cats in the video doing?”
UC Berkley Professor David Wagner delivered a keynote speech to open the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2017. The top tier computer security and privacy conference was held in Dallas, USA.
Andrew Ng gave a keynote speech at the AI Frontiers Conference, encouraging AI talents to start making a difference whether with major industry players or through their own startups
Synced recently attended a Baidu meet-up at the company’s newly-opened Silicon Valley offices, where details were released on the latest iteration of the Apollo platform, Apollo 1.5.
Delphi Automotive (Delphi), one of the world’s largest automotive parts manufacturers, has announced the acquisition of MIT spin-off self-driving car company nuTonomy for US$450 million.
At this year’s ATEC Developer Challenge, Futuristic won Best Creative Idea Award, while RADIAnt won Best Social Value Award.
Clearly, digital voice assistants are wising up — how long until they catch up?
AI-powered cloud platforms can help businesses benefit from AI. Oracle, the world’s second-largest software company, is prepared to hop on board.
The AI boom has seen countless companies scrambling to jump on the bandwagon — even if their products have little to do with AI.
While tech giants like Google and Amazon are setting the pace in AI R&D these days, startups can also find success by targeting niche markets
As more companies bet on AI, computer scientists with AI expertise are coming into demand on the job market.
Last month, it was widely reported that two Facebook chatbots had been shut down after communicating with each other in an unrecognizable language.
This October, Ant Financial and Synced are co-hosting the ATEC Developer Creativity Challenge for developers to showcase creativity using Alipay Mini-program.
The latest iPhone struts its AI strength with three new features: Face ID, for facial recognition; Animoji, an emoji animator; and a new camera exposure mode called portrait lighting.
Jianxiong Xiao (肖健雄), founder of startup AutoX, developed his first self-driving car in six months with seven cameras costing a total of just US$500.
Synced meets the people transforming a former steel town into a metropolis powered by artificial intelligence and robotics.