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by Synced 2021-01-06 8

Machine Learning & Data Science Nature Language Tech Research

Microsoft DeBERTa Tops Human Performance on SuperGLUE NLU Benchmark

A new model surpassed human baseline performance on the challenging natural language understanding benchmark.

by Synced 2021-01-06 2

Machine Learning & Data Science Research Talk Review

2020 in Review With Brian Tse

Synced has invited Mr. Brian Tse to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.

by Synced 2021-01-05 6

Machine Learning & Data Science Nature Language Tech Popular Research

For Its Latest Trick, OpenAI’s GPT-3 Generates Images From Text Captions

OpenAI has trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.

by Synced 2021-01-05 6

Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

‘Neural Body’ Reconstructs Dynamic Human Bodies From Sparse Camera Views

The novel approach tackles dynamic 3D human-body synthesis from a sparse set of camera views, bettering existing methods on key metrics by significant margins.

by Synced 2021-01-04 4

Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

PGDrive Simulator Generates Unlimited Diverse Driving Environments

Researchers proposed PGDrive, a driving simulator designed to evaluate and improve end-to-end driving agents’ generalization abilities.

by Synced 2021-01-04 2

Cloud & ML Ops Industrial AI Industry Machine Learning & Data Science Research Talk Review

2020 in Review With Tatsuya Nagata

Synced has invited Mr. Tatsuya Nagata, the COO of Navier Inc., to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.

by Synced 2021-01-01 24

Machine Learning & Data Science Research Talk Review

2020 in Review With Johan A.K. Suykens

Synced has invited Prof. Johan A.K. Suykens to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.

by Synced 2021-01-01 28

Cloud & ML Ops Global Global News Industrial AI Industry Popular Smart Living

2020 in Review: 10 AI Failures

This is the fourth Synced year-end compilation of “Artificial Intelligence Failures.” Our aim is not to shame nor downplay AI research, but to look at where and how it has gone awry with the hope that we can create better AI systems in the future.

by Synced 2020-12-31 17

Global Global News Industry Popular

2020 in Review: 8 New AI Regulatory Proposals from Governments

As part of our year-end series, Synced has compiled a global list of proposals, rules and regulatory frameworks for AI introduced in 2020.

by Synced 2020-12-31 12

Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Japanese Manga Translation Via Multimodal Context-Aware Framework

A new machine translation method enables global manga fans to enjoy immediate translations of their favourite Japanese comics.

by Synced 2020-12-30 4

Cloud & ML Ops Industrial AI Industry Popular Smart Living

2020 in Review: 10 AI-Powered Tools Tackling COVID-19

As part of our year-end series, Synced highlights 10 AI-powered efforts that contributed to the fight against COVID-19 in 2020.

by Synced 2020-12-30 3

Computer Vision & Graphics Research Talk Review

2020 in Review With Sheldon Fernandez

Synced has invited Mr. Sheldon Fernandez to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.

by Synced 2020-12-29 3

Asia Cloud & ML Ops Global News Industry

Baidu Releases ML Bio-computing Framework PaddleHelix

At the Wave Summit 2020 held on December 20, Baidu unveiled the company’s newest ML-based bio-computing framework named “PaddleHelix”.

by Synced 2020-12-29 1

Industrial AI Industry

IPU Maker Graphcore Raises USD222 Million in Series E Funding Round

Graphcore has announced that it has raised USD 222 million in a Series E funding round that will boost company value to USD 2.77 billion.

by Synced 2020-12-29 1

Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Are RL Agents More Humanlike When Not Seeking Rewards? New Research from Vector Institute, University of Toronto & Google Brain

Researchers from Vector Institute, University of Toronto and Google Brain recently studied three common types of intrinsic motivation across seven agents, three Atari games, and the 3D game Minecraft.

by Synced 2020-12-29 4

Asia Global News Industrial AI Industry

Singapore Coffee Shop Builds a Robot Barista With Intel AI

At Crown Coffee, a small-yet-homey coffee bar in downtown Singapore, the autonomous robot barista “Ella” never gets your order wrong.

by Synced 2020-12-28 1

Global News Industrial AI Industry

AI “Sounce” is the Noise Detector to Porsche Cars

Porsche Digital, the subsidiary of the Stuttgart-based sports car manufacturer, has unveiled digital assistant ‘Sounce’ offers an improved ability to detect noise – for example, during vehicle component tests.

by Synced 2020-12-28 1

Machine Learning & Data Science Research Talk Review

2020 in Review With Viral B. Shah

Synced has invited Dr. Viral B. Shah to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.

by Synced 2020-12-28 2

Asia Global News Industry Smart Living

Zhengzhou China Launches Urban-Brain to Triage and Park 4.5 million Vehicles

China’s east-central city Zhengzhou has successfully used AI to triage parking for over 4.5 million vehicles in the area.

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Asia Global News

Multilingual AI News Presenter Broadcasts New Year’s Greeting on Behalf of Chinese Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago

Chinese Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago rolled out a multilingual AI presenter named “Xiao Ai” to broadcast New Year’s greeting in Chinese, English, French and Spanish.

by Synced 2020-12-28 1

Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Tsinghua University Releases First AutoML Toolkit for Graph Datasets & Tasks

Researchers from Tsinghua University have developed an AutoML framework and toolkit specifically designed for graph datasets and tasks.

by Synced 2020-12-25 Number of comments0

Machine Learning & Data Science Research Talk Review

2020 in Review With Jürgen Schmidhuber

Synced has invited Prof. Jürgen Schmidhube to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.

by Synced 2020-12-25 33

Machine Learning & Data Science Popular Research

2020 in Review: 10 Nonfiction Books AI Experts Enjoyed Reading

Synced has compiled a list of nonfiction books that notable AI researchers and engineers have recommended on Twitter over the last 12 months.

by Synced 2020-12-24 5

Machine Learning & Data Science Research

‘The Debate of the Next Decade’ – AI Debate 2 Explores AGI and AI Ethics

The four-hour event included three panel discussions: Architecture and Challenges, Insights from Neuroscience and Psychology, and Towards AI We Can Trust.

by Synced 2020-12-23 9

Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Popular Research

2020 in Review: 10 AI-Powered Art Projects

As part of our year-end series, Synced highlights 10 AI-powered art projects that inspired and entertained us in 2020.

by Synced 2020-12-22 3

Asia Global News

MSRA Forms “OpenNetLab” Alliance with Top Asian Universities to Advance Network Research

Microsoft Research Asia announced the establishment of “OpenNetLab” network in alliance with top Asian academic institutions.

by Synced 2020-12-22 1

Asia Global News

Zhou Ming, Assistant Director of Microsoft Research Asia NLP Resigns and to Join Kai-fu Lee’s VC Fund Innovation Works

NLP maverick Zhou Ming’s next stop is VC Fund Innovation Workshop funded by former colleague Kai-fu Lee.

by Synced 2020-12-22 6

Machine Learning & Data Science Popular Research

2020 in Review: 10 AI Podcasts You Need to Know

Synced has selected 10 AI-related podcasts for readers to check out over the holiday season.

by Synced 2020-12-21 2

Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Popular Research

Heidelberg University Researchers Combine CNNs and Transformers to Synthesize High-Resolution Images

Researchers combine the effectiveness of the inductive bias in CNNs with the expressivity of transformers to model and synthesize high resolution images.

by Synced 2020-12-18 3

Global News US & Canada

Alphabet Pledges to Keep Funding AI Subsidiary DeepMind, Which Has Reported GBP 477 Million Loss in 2019

DeepMind, the UK-based AI arm of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has lost GBP 477 million in 2019 which is 1.5 percent increase from one year prior.

by Synced 2020-12-18 5

Machine Learning & Data Science Research

URI Researchers Trained CNN Networks to ID mosquitos

Rapid and accurate identification of mosquitoes that transmit human pathogens such as malaria is an essential part of mosquito-borne disease surveillance.

by Synced 2020-12-18 15

Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Popular Research

‘We Can Do It’ – Geoffrey Hinton and UBC, UT, Google & UVic Team Propose Unsupervised Capsule Architecture for 3D Point Clouds

In the new paper Canonical Capsules: Unsupervised Capsules in Canonical Pose, Turing Award Honoree Dr. Geoffrey Hinton and a team of researchers propose an architecture for unsupervised learning with 3D point clouds based on capsules.

by Synced 2020-12-17 7

Machine Learning & Data Science Popular Research

2020 in Review: 10 AI Papers That Made an Impact

As part of our year-end series, Synced highlights 10 artificial intelligence papers that garnered extraordinary attention and accolades in 2020.

by Synced 2020-12-17 3

Machine Learning & Data Science Research

WILDS: Benchmarking Distribution Shifts in 7 Societally-Important Datasets

WILDS is an ambitious benchmark of in-the-wild distribution shifts spanning diverse data modalities and applications.

by Synced 2020-12-16 Number of comments0

Asia Global News

Report by IDC and Inspur Shows China’s AI Infrastructure Reaches USD 3.93 Billion in 2020, with YoY Increase of 26.8 Percent

Market research company IDC and Inspur jointly released the 2020-2021 China Artificial Intelligence Computing Power Development Report.

by Synced 2020-12-16 3

EU & UK Global News

Spanish Startup to Launch the World’s First Cybersecurity Lab Dedicated for Robotics in Munich

Spanish startup Alias Robotics and ElevenPaths are to set up the world’s first lab dedicated to cybersecurity for robotics in Munich.

by Synced 2020-12-16 4

Asia Global News

Japan’s Kobe city utilizes AI to aid unemployment effected by COVID-19

The municipal government of Japan’s Kobe city has spent more than JYP 40 million to develop an AI employment support system “SODAMO” jointly with a career support company.

by Synced 2020-12-16 1

Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Facebook AI & University of Notre Dame Propose Multi-Face Pose Estimation Without Face Detection

University of Notre Dame and Facebook AI research propose Img2pose, real-time 6DoF 3D face pose estimation without face detection or landmark localization.

by Synced 2020-12-15 5

Machine Learning & Data Science Popular Research

NeurIPS 2020 | Teaching Transformers New Tricks

This year, 22 Transformer-related research papers were accepted by NeurIPS, the world’s most prestigious machine learning conference. Synced has selected ten of these works to showcase the latest Transformer trends.

by Synced 2020-12-15 3

Machine Learning & Data Science Popular Research

Mila Proposes New Inductive Biases to Boost Deep Learning

Yoshua Bengio and Anirudh Goyal from Mila - Quebec AI Institute delve into human and non-human animal intelligence and how it can inform deep learning.