Synced - Part 26

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Asia

“Top 500 Chinese Enterprises” Report: Baidu, Huawei and NetEase Rank Top Three in R&D

In 2020, the average R&D intensity of the top 500 Chinese companies has increased for three consecutive years and bounced back to the highest level in history.

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EU & UK US & Canada

US and UK to Forge Partnership in Artificial Intelligence

The Trump administration will announce partnership with the UK on research and development of AI, including issues of explainability and fairness.

by Synced 2020-09-27 4

Asia Industrial AI

Counterpoint: Average Global Price of Smartphones Have Risen by 10 Percent; China’s 5G Phone Shipments Have Increased Sharply

In the second quarter of 2020, increase of 5G phone shipments prompted the average selling price of global smartphone market to increase by 10 percent.

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Industrial AI

AI Is Making Robots More Fun

The market size of physical and interactive social and entertainment robots is expected to hit US$3.7 billion by 2023.

by Synced 2020-09-25 4

Machine Learning & Data Science Popular

Facebook AI Wav2Vec 2.0: Automatic Speech Recognition From 10 Minute Sample

Facebook AI researchers have open-sourced the new wav2vec 2.0 algorithm for self-supervised language learning.

by Synced 2020-09-24 0

Computer Vision & Graphics

Lightweight 3D Dense Face Alignment? New Chinese Model is ‘Fast, Accurate and Stable’

Chinese researchers propose a novel regression framework in pursuit of “fast, accurate and stable 3D dense face alignment simultaneously.”

by Synced 2020-09-23 10

Machine Learning & Data Science Nature Language Tech Popular

Google Approaches BERT-Level Performance Using 300x Fewer Parameters with Extension of Its New NLP model PRADO

The trimmed-down pQRNN extension to Google AI’s projection attention neural network PRADO compares to BERT on text classification tasks for on-device use.

by Synced 2020-09-23 5

Computer Vision & Graphics Conference Popular

Facebook Reality Labs’ Vision of the Future: ‘Tools that Help People Feel Connected’

VR and AR will converge to combine the real and virtual, as Facebook Reality Labs researchers, developers, and engineers aim to change how we see the world.

by Synced 2020-09-23 1

US & Canada

Volkswagen’s Truck Division Traton Cooperates with Startup TuSimple to Develop Self-Driving Trucks

Volkswagen’s truck division Traton announced that it will cooperate with TuSimple, a Chinese self-driving technology start-up company headquartered in San Diego, to develop self-driving trucks.

by Synced 2020-09-23 6

US & Canada

Microsoft Ignite 2020: New Capabilities of Azure AI to Empower Businesses

At the Ignite 2020 virtual conference, Microsoft announced new updates for Azure AI.

by Synced 2020-09-23 1

Asia

Playstation “Father” Ken Kutaragi Becomes CEO of Tokyo-Based Robotics Startup

Former Sony executive Ken Kutaragi, known to be the “father” of PlayStation, has been named CEO of Ascent Robotics.

by Synced 2020-09-23 0

US & Canada

Alberta Government Gives CA$9 Million in Funding to Edmonton-based AI Institute Amii

The Alberta government announced a CA$9 million grant for Edmonton-based Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii).

by Synced 2020-09-22 3

Computer Vision & Graphics Popular

Tracking Recent Topics & Trends in 3D Photo Generation

Synced has identified a few significant technical advancements in the 3D photo field that we believe may be of interest to our readers.

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Cloud & ML Ops Nature Language Tech

Microsoft Gets Exclusive License for OpenAI’s GPT-3 Language Model

Microsoft announced today that it has teamed up with OpenAI to exclusively license the AI research institute’s GPT-3 language model.

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Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Popular

Adobe’s DL-Based ‘HDMatt’ Handles Image Details Thinner Than Hair

UIUC, Adobe Research and University of Oregon propose HDMatt, a Deep Learning-based image matting Cross-Patch Context module for high-resolution image inputs.

by Synced 2020-09-21 3

Machine Learning & Data Science Popular

UC Berkeley Reward-Free RL Beats SOTA Reward-Based RL

Augmented Temporal Contrast (ATC), a new unsupervised learning (UL) task for learning visual representations agnostic to rewards and without degrading the control policy.

by Synced 2020-09-21 1

Asia Industrial AI

Beijing Officials Announce the City’s 5G Users Surpass 5 Million Benchmark

The Beijing Municipal Administration of Communications revealed that the number of 5G users in Beijing exceeded 5 million.

by Synced 2020-09-21 2

Cloud & ML Ops US & Canada

University of Toronto Spinoff Bridge7 Uses AI to Improve Cancer Treatment

Launched via the U of T Early-Stage Technology program (UTEST), Canadian startup Bridge7 is applying AI to improve the quality, consistency, and efficiency of cancer treatments.

by Synced 2020-09-18 4

Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science

New Google & Oxford Model Time-Shifts People in Videos

A group of researchers from Google Research and the University of Oxford have introduced a novel technique that can “retiming” people’s movements in videos.

by Synced 2020-09-17 3

Machine Learning & Data Science Popular

After 15 Long Years, a NumPy Paper Finally Appears!

NumPy is the foundation upon which the scientific Python ecosystem is constructed.

by Synced 2020-09-16 0

Asia Smart Living

Baidu World 2020 Conference Showcases AI for Autonomous Driving and Virtual Assistant

Chinese tech giant Baidu hosted Baidu World 2020 conference under the theme of “Intelligence of Everything”, unveiling new flagship products and AI upgrades.

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Asia Smart Living

Baidu Launches Smart Earbuds “XiaoduPods” and Announces DuerOS Upgrades

Chinese tech giant Baidu unveiled the latest version of conversational AI system DuerOS 6.0 and launched smart earbuds “XiaoduPods”, which fulfills more user needs including elderly care and smart hotel.

by Synced 2020-09-16 2

Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science

New DeepMind Approach ‘Bootstraps’ Self-Supervised Learning of Image Representations

From an augmented view of an image, the researchers trained the online network to predict the target network representation of the same image under a different augmented view.

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Machine Learning & Data Science

Czech Tech Does the Monster Mash: Animating 3D Models in Seconds

Monster Mash, a novel AI-powered 3D modelling and animation tool, aims to make these arduous 3D animation processes a whole lot easier.

by Synced 2020-09-15 1

Global

AI Chatbot Platform Arifu is Helping East African Farmers Learn Finances and Farming Skills Via Texts

AI chatbot platform “Arifu” is helping east African farmers and rural entrepreneurs from Kenya, Zambia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Nigeria and UgandaContinue Reading

by Synced 2020-09-15 2

Asia

Beijing to Build the World’s First High-Level Autonomous Driving Demonstration Zone

On September 11, city official stated that Beijing plans to build the world’s first high-level autonomous driving demonstration zone, whichContinue Reading

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Machine Learning & Data Science Nature Language Tech

Facebook AI Enables Automatic Closed Captions for Facebook Live

Facebook AI researchers and engineers just made live video content more accessible by enabling automatic closed captions for Facebook Live and Workplace Live.

by Synced 2020-09-15 1

Nature Language Tech

Human Feedback Improves OpenAI Model Summarizations

OpenAI sets out to advance methods for training large-scale language models on objectives that more closely capture human preferences.

by Synced 2020-09-14 1

Machine Learning & Data Science

Microsoft Democratizes DeepSpeed With Four New Technologies

Microsoft has released four additional DeepSpeed technologies to enable even faster training times, whether on supercomputers or a single GPU.

by Synced 2020-09-13 1

AI EU & UK Global News US & Canada

NVIDIA Pockets ARM for $40 Billion Unveiling the Biggest Chip Company M&A

On September 13th, NVIDIA announced the acquisition of UK-based semiconductor startup ARM for US$40 billion, unveiling the largest acquisition dealContinue Reading

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Popular US & Canada

Ex-Uber AI Chief Scientist Zoubin Ghahramani Joins Google Brain Leadership Team

Former Uber Chief Scientist and VP for AI Zoubin Ghahramani has joined Google Research as part of the Google Brain team leadership.

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Machine Learning & Data Science

A Closer Look at the Generalization Gap in Large Batch Training of Neural Networks

This research addresses a well-known phenomenon regarding large batch sizes during training and the generalization gap.

by Synced 2020-09-13 2

EU & UK US & Canada

EU and Canada Ministerial Meeting Reveals New AI Schemes for Global COVID-19 Recovery

The EU and Canada are collaborating to explore how to explicitly leverage artificial intelligence to help the international community respond to, and recover from, COVID-19.

by Synced 2020-09-13 1

Asia

Tencent Debutes AR Navigation Platform for IoV and Announces New Smart Transportation Strategy

Tencent announced the TIME Ecological Partner Program at the Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit.

by Synced 2020-09-11 3

Computer Vision & Graphics Popular

Argo AI Model Jointly Plots Vehicle Pose and Shape From LiDAR Data

Researchers have introduced a novel network architecture for jointly estimating the shape and pose of vehicles even from partial LiDAR observations.

by Synced 2020-09-10 4

Machine Learning & Data Science Nature Language Tech Popular

OpenAI ‘GPT-f’ Delivers SOTA Performance in Automated Mathematical Theorem Proving

OpenAI researchers introduce GPT-f, an automated prover and proof assistant for the Metamath formalization language.

by Synced 2020-09-10 3

Machine Learning & Data Science Popular

TinySpeech: Novel Attention Condensers Enable Deep Recognition Networks on Edge Devices

Novel attention condensers designed to enable the building of low-footprint, highly-efficient deep neural networks for on-device speech recognition on the edge.