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Synced Global AI Weekly February 16th
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Nvidia’s Volta: A Game Changer for AI?
At this year’s GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia CEO and Founder Jensen Huang unveiled a new generation GPU architecture called Volta.
A Guide to Receptive Field Arithmetic for Convolutional Neural Networks
This is a comprehensive guide on how to calculate and visualize the receptive field information of a convolutional neural network.
Syncing Silicon Valley’s Chinese Labs
Chinese tech companies with high revenue streams are pumping money into R&D and recruiting talents in the US with newly founded facilities.
Automated Synaptic Connectivity Inference For Volume Electron Microscopy
Researchers introduce an automated synaptic connectivity inference pipeline (SyConn) to delivers a richly annotated wiring diagram, or components of a connectome.
Understanding CNN from Signal Perspective
RECOS model supply us with a signal analysis perspective of Convolution Neural Network. From this perspective, we can see the effectiveness of activation and deep architectures.
Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation with Generative Adversarial Networks
This paper proposes a general approach to achieve “Image-to-Image Translation” by using deep convolutional and conditional generative adversarial networks (GANs).
Make AI Computing 100 Times Faster
“We want to be able to train a machine learning model, like Google Translate, in a few hours,” said Prof. Hwu. Best known for enabling the parallelism capability of the GPU to solve scientific problems like AI.
Stochastic Neural Networks for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Authors proposed a general framework for learning a span of skills in a pre-training environment, which can be used in downstream tasks by training a high-level policy on top of the skills.
Is Genome-editing CRISPR Ready to Leave the Lab?
The 2017 Harvard China Forum hosted a panel on “Futuristic Technologies & Innovations in AI and Biotech”, where Feng Zhang was invited to share insights on genome-editing.
Large-Scale Evolution of Image Classifiers
This work proposes a novel neural-evolution algorithm for large scale search.
The Humans Behind Artificial Intelligence
AI companies require accurate data for specialized applications, and seemingly little things such as labelling and tagging demand accuracy. At present, only humans are up for the task.
How to Train a Very Large and Deep Model on One GPU?
The article discusses about the limitation of using existing GPU to train neural network and how one can improve to train larger model.
Artificial Intelligence is the New Electricity — Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng – former Baidu Chief Scientist, Coursera co-founder, and Stanford Adjunct Professor – gave a talk at the Stanford MSx Future Forum.
The Time to Marry AI May Come Soon
Dr. Eisaku Maeda, the director of NTT Communication Science Laboratories, was recently interviewed by The Huffington Post, sharing his opinions on AI.
Chinese Investors are Fascinated by Pitt’s Tech Boom
Pittsburgh, “Silicon Valley of the East”, captures the attention of tech giants, talents and investors for the progressive movements in advanced technology and innovation.
Interview with Tencent Big Data Technology Team: Tencent Launched Open-source Computing Platform Named Angel (Part Ⅱ)
Jie Jiang, Tencent’s big data platform director and the chief data expert, gave a speech on Tencent’s third generation open-source computing platform Angel.
Interview with Tencent Big Data Technology Team: Tencent Launched Open-source Computing Platform Named Angel (Part Ⅰ)
Tecent launched their third-generation computing platform in machine learning named Angel, and they would make this platform open source in early 2017.
Interview with Tencent AI Lab- Four Core Research Fields:Computer Vision, Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
Synced recently conducted a special interview with the Director of Tencent AI Lab Tong Zhang, to discuss about the strategic position and research focuses in Tencent.
Is Baidu the No. 1 Player on China’s National Team of Artificial Intelligence?
“The Internet is just an appetizer, whereas AI is the real entrée. The latter is not a part of the internet, not the second stage of the internet; it is technological revolution comparable to the industrial revolution.” – Robin Li, CEO of Baidu.
Mobvoi and Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Automation join forces and creates the Joint Laboratory of Language Intelligence and Human Machine Interaction
On March 29, The “Joint Laboratory of Language Intelligence and Human Machine Interaction” opened its doors in Beijing. This lab is the result of a collaboration between Chinese AI company Mobvoi and CASIA.
Alibaba Cloud Launches Machine Learning Platform “PAI 2.0”, Reducing AI’s Technical Threshold and Development Cost
On March 29, 2017, during the 2017 YunQi Computing Conference held in Shenzhen, Alibaba Cloud’s Chief Science Officer Dr Jingren Zhou officially launched the updated version of its machine learning platform “PAI 2.0”, intending to drastically reduce the technical threshold and development cost for AI.
Can AI Fool Humans? In the Spirit of April (Fools): This is No Joke
In the spirit of April (Fools), let us see how far down is AI along the path of “fooling” humans.
A Brief Introduction to Humanistic Intelligence: The Symbiotic Future of Machine and Human
“Why did I go to such extremes? Because I realized that the future of computing was as much about communications between people wearing computers as it was about preforming colossal calculations.” — Steve Mann
Real-Time Single Image and Video Super-Resolution Using an Efficient Sub-Pixel Convolutional Neural Network
This paper proposed a computationally efficient convolutional layer to upscale the final low-resolution feature map to a high-resolution output.
What Does It Take For Intel To Seize The AI Market?
In this article we will provide some insights of Intel’s recent deep learning products.
A Robust Adaptive Stochastic Gradient Method for Deep Learning
This paper proposes an adaptive learning rate algorithm, which utilizes stochastic curvature information of the loss function for automatically tuning the learning rates.
Neural Networks for Beginners
This review will introduce and compare the three commonly used machine learning frameworks: Matlab Neural Network Toolbox, Torch and Tensorflow.
US-China’s Innovation Arrived on UIUC Campus
A handful of Chinese scientists, investors and entrepreneurs were invited to talk at the UIUC U.S.-China Innovation & Development Forum last Saturday.
Tencent Cloud’s Huang Ming on its New DI-X Deep Learning Platform
On March 28, Tencent Cloud launched its machine learning platform DI-X, with a goal of providing a one stop shop for its machine learning and deep learning customers.
Universal Schema: Bridging the Gap Between Strings and Things
Andrew McCallum explained how the use of Universal schema can improve knowledge representation and reasoning from natural language.
Moving Toward Understanding Consciousness
Noë proposes his ideas towards current neuroscience research using reductionism approach is far from understanding the philosophy behind our consciousness.
The Future of Computing: Neuromorphic
Neuromorphic computing, a promising direction for future of computing that emulates human brain to maintain energy efficiency and fast computing speed.
Alibaba’s New Study on Artificial Intelligence: Achieving Multi-arms Cooperative Gaming in “StarCraft”
Researchers from Alibaba and UCL have recently published a new study, claiming that multiple game units controlled by artificial intelligence are now able to develop tactics similar to human players using unsupervised learning.
Rework Machine Learning Summit in SF: AI is Teaching Robots to Chat
At Rework Machine Learning Summit at San Francisco, speakers from tech giants, as AI research labs and AI-related startups, are invited to present their latest study in machine learning.
Interview with Dr.Zhou Xi: Cloudwalk
Synced got a chance to interview with Dr. Zhou Xi . from personal experience to CouldWalk ‘s development and future trend.
Synced Exclusive Interview with “Fine Art” Team Lead: “Stronger Models though Brand New Reinforcement Learning Techniques”
Synced had the opportunity for an exclusive interview with Tecent AI Lab’s senior manager, team lead for Fine Art, Liu Yongsheng.
Chinese AI Talents in US are Driving Attention from Worldwide Tech Giants
Rapid rise of AI industry drives extremely huge demand for talents, Chinese AI talents in US are driving attention from worldwide tech giants.
China’s National Engineering Laboratory of Deep Learning Technology was Established at Baidu Campus: We are the National Team of Deep Learning
March 2, 2017, the opening ceremony for China’s National Engineering Laboratory of Deep Learning Technology was held on the Baidu Campus.
Canada’s Future Bets on AI
Canada unveiled a budget of $125 million to launch Pan-Canadian Al Strategy, a new independent institute for AI, Vector Institute.
Pixel Recursive Super Resolution
Google released a method for recovering pictures from low resolution to high resolution using pixel recursive super resolution model.