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by Synced 2019-11-12 18

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Texas A&M and Simon Fraser Universities Open-Source RL Toolkit for Card Games

A team of researchers from Texas A&M University and Canada’s Simon Fraser University have open-sourced a toolkit called “RLCard” for applying RL research to card games.

by Synced 2019-11-11 3

AI Industry

Extreme E-Commerce: Shipping 2.8 Billion Singles’ Day Parcels

China’s National Post Bureau forecasts some 2.8 billion parcels will be shipped between November 11-18th. While robots will do much of the heavy lifting, an average human warehouse worker will cover 42 kilometers per day, equivalent to a full, sweaty marathon.

by Synced 2019-11-10 1

AI AI Weekly China Industry Research

OpenAI Releases Full GPT-2; Baidu Q3 Revenues Rise; EMNLP Announces 2019 Best Papers

Synced Global AI Weekly November 10th

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AI Industry Research

2020 AI Residency Guide

As global AI development and deployment continues, the demand for AI talents is growing faster than ever. A number of industry leaders and reputable institutions offer AI residency programs designed to help nurture promising AI talents.

by Synced 2019-11-08 Number of comments0

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Microsoft Ignite 2019 | Project Cortex AI Builds Enterprise Knowledge Networks

The message from Microsoft is clear: the company is investing in knowledge, which it believes will become one of the most important assets of any organization.

by Synced 2019-11-07 1

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Google T5 Explores the Limits of Transfer Learning

Synced invited Samuel R. Bowman, an Assistant Professor at New York University who works on artificial neural network models for natural language understanding, to share his thoughts on the “Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer” (T5) framework.

by Synced 2019-11-06 Number of comments0

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ProtoPNet Recognizes Birds and Shows Us How in Real Time

Exciting new research from Duke University introduces ProtoPNet, a deep learning network that can explain how it distinguishes a pigeon from a partridge in real time.

by Synced 2019-11-05 2

AI Research

OpenAI Releases 1.5 Billion Parameter GPT-2 Model

In a blog post today OpenAI today announced the final staged release of its 1.5 billion parameter language model GPT-2, along with all associated code and model weights.

by Synced 2019-11-05 Number of comments0

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Microsoft Ignite 2019 | From Office to Cortex and Beyond – How AI Is Making a Difference at the World’s Most Valuable Company

“You’ll see AI infused into all our products and services across the company, from tools to help people be more productive at work, to Azure services that give our customers the flexibility to deploy AI capabilities in any environment,” said Microsoft Communications Corporate Vice President Frank Shaw.

by Synced 2019-11-05 Number of comments0

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Do Deep Neural Networks ‘See’ Faces Like Brains Do?

Recognizing faces is as natural and habitual as can be for human beings. But what actually happens inside our brains during the process of recognizing a face? Can artificial intelligence learn to recognize faces the way humans do?

by Synced 2019-11-04 Number of comments0

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Locating Moving Objects Using Stereo Sound Instead of Visual Input

In a bid to improve object localization in less-than-ideal circumstances, an MIT and IBM research group has proposed a cross-modal auditory localization framework that can effectively locate objects using stereo sound.

by Synced 2019-11-03 1

AI AI Weekly

ICCV 2019 and CoRL 2019 Announce Best Papers; DeepMind AlphaStar Reaches ‘Grandmaster Level’

Synced Global AI Weekly November 3rd

by Synced 2019-11-02 5

AI Research

Industrial Internet of Things & Factories of the Future

The market opportunities for IIoT are massive. Markets & Markets reports the global IIoT market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.39 percent to reach US$91.4 billion by 2023, with the manufacturing industry holding the largest market share.

by Synced 2019-11-01 3

AI Event Research

Visiting the SOSP 2019 AI System Workshop

The ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) has a long history and a great reputation in Operating Systems (OS) research. This year SOSP was held in Huntsville, a charming town located in lake country, some 200km north of Toronto.

by Synced 2019-11-01 1

AI Research

Smaller Is Better: Lightweight Face Detection For Smartphones

Much of the compute for such services is done on the cloud, but ideally these applications would be light enough to run directly on devices without an Internet connection.

by Synced 2019-10-31 4

AI Research

Google Introduces Huge Universal Language Translation Model: 103 Languages Trained on Over 25 Billion Examples

Synced invited Graham Neubig, an Assistant Professor from Carnegie Mellon University to share his thoughts on Google’s universal neural machine translation (NMT) system trained on over 25 billion examples that can handle 103 languages proposed.

by Synced 2019-10-30 3

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Yoshua Bengio on Human vs Machine Intelligence

“We’ve made huge progress, much more than even my friends and I expected a few years ago. But (the progress) is mostly about perception, things like computer vision and speech recognition and synthesis of some things in natural processing. We’re still far from human capabilities.”

by Synced 2019-10-30 1

AI Research

‘ChineseGLUE’ – New NLU Benchmark for Chinese NLP Models

Now, a group of NLP researchers and enthusiasts, including graduates from Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Zhejiang University, have introduced ChineseGLUE, a benchmark designed to encourage the development and assessment of Chinese language models.

by Synced 2019-10-29 Number of comments0

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ICCV 2019 Best Papers Announced

ICCV 2019 received 4,303 papers — more than twice the number submitted to ICCV 2017 — and accepted 1,075, for a reception rate of roughly 25 percent.

by Synced 2019-10-29 1

AI Research

A Researcher Is Sheathing Smart Devices in ‘Skin’

A new paper from researchers at the University of Bristol, Telecomm ParisTech and Sorbonne University introduces a multi-layer, silicone “SkinOn” membrane that mimics the layers of human skin.

by Synced 2019-10-28 2

AI Industry Research

Can a Smart Light Bulb Steal Your Personal Data?

In a new paper, researchers from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) design and implement attacks that leverage characteristics of the light emitted by modern smart bulbs to “steal” users’ private data and preferences from other nearby devices.

by Synced 2019-10-27 Number of comments0

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Google’s Big Week: Quantum Supremacy, Boosting Search With BERT, Exploring Transfer Learning

Synced Global AI Weekly October 27th

by Synced 2019-10-26 11

AI Industry

Running an Industrial Robotics Software Startup Is Not Getting Easier

After running the industrial robot operating system startup “Cobot” for three years, founder Miao Li has decided to axe 98 percent of the company’s “fancy services” and just focus on drug logistics and sorting mushrooms.

by Synced 2019-10-25 Number of comments0

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Milestone: BERT Boosts Google Search

In what the company calls “the biggest leap forward in the past five years, and one of the biggest leaps forward in the history of Search,” Google today announced that it has leveraged its pretrained language model BERT to dramatically improve the understanding of search queries.

by Synced 2019-10-25 3

AI Research

Google AI Targets Video Understanding With Speedy ‘TinyVideoNet’ and Other Approaches

Google’s latest contribution came last week with “Tiny Video Networks (TVN),” a new method for reducing the runtime of neural networks when analyzing videos that is significantly faster than existing models.

by Synced 2019-10-24 Number of comments0

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Get a Grip! MIT Boosts Robot Grasping

The MIT researchers’ novel method can speed up the grasp-planning process from more than 10 minutes to less than a second.

by Synced 2019-10-23 3

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Alibaba Open-Sources Its MCU to Boost AI Research

Alibaba’s chip subsidiary Pingtouge (平头哥) has become the first Chinese company to open-source its Microcontroller (MCU) design platform.

by Synced 2019-10-22 2

AI Industry Research

Harvard & Google Seismic Paper Hit With Rebuttals: Is Deep Learning Suited to Aftershock Prediction?

With deep learning emerging as something of a panacea in the world of science, AI researchers and seismologists alike are leveraging the tech in pursuit of better aftershock forecast solutions.

by Synced 2019-10-21 Number of comments0

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Can Pretrained Language Models Replace Knowledge Bases?

The recent rapid development of pretrained language models has produced significant performance improvements on downstream NLP tasks.

by Synced 2019-10-20 Number of comments0

AI AI Weekly Research

Robots to Handle Rubik’s Cube, Push Stuff Around, Build a Lunar Base

Synced Global AI Weekly October 20th

by Synced 2019-10-19 7

AI Industry

AI In Wildlife Conservation

Image recognition technology in particular has come to play a valuable role in wildlife conservation, where endangered species are tallied and tracked so their numbers and migrations can be more accurately measured and understood.

by Synced 2019-10-18 1

AI Research

Smooth Exclusion: New Adobe Algorithm Aces Video Inpainting

Purging your favourite photos or videos of an unsightly trash pile, a parked car or even an ex-partner has never been easier, thanks to the rapid progress of AI models designed for such tasks.

by Synced 2019-10-17 1

AI Industry

Kaldi Creator Daniel Povey Joining Xiaomi in Beijing

Daniel Povey, the main developer of the widely used open-source speech recognition toolkit Kaldi, tweeted today that he is likely joining Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi at its Beijing headquarters to work on a next generation “PyTorch-y Kaldi.”

by Synced 2019-10-17 2

AI Research

Sotabench: Benchmarking Open Source Models Directly From GitHub

Machine learning research resource Papers with Code last week introduced Sotabench, a free and open website created to benchmark and rate the performance of state-of-the-art open source models from GitHub.

by Synced 2019-10-16 4

AI Research

Using Conditional GANs to Build Zelda Game Levels

A team of researchers has proposed a Generative Adversarial Network based model tasked with creating playable and aesthetically appealing game levels for popular action-adventure video game series The Legend of Zelda.

by Synced 2019-10-15 Number of comments0

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OpenAI Robot Hand: Today Rubik’s Cube, Tomorrow the Real World?

We’ve lost the brain race, but humans still have unmatched dexterity, right? Wrong. OpenAI’s humanlike five-fingered gripper Dactyl just single-handedly solved a Rubik’s cube.

by Synced 2019-10-14 3

AI China Research

Shake Your Booty: AI Deepfakes Dance Moves From a Single Picture

Do you have two left feet? Do you avoid the dance floor out of fear of embarrassment? If you’ve ever secretly wished you could move your body like Joaquín Cortés — well, at least in a video — a new AI-powered 3D body mesh recovery module called Liquid Warping GAN can give you a leg up.

by Synced 2019-10-13 Number of comments0

AI AI Weekly Industry Research

PyTorch 1.3 Released; News From Arm TechCon 2019; Are Deepfakes More Dangerous Than Imagined?

Synced Global AI Weekly October 13rd

by Synced 2019-10-12 2

AI China Industry

How AI Is Modernizing Chinese Agriculture

In recent years frontier technologies such as AI, big data, IoT, and 3S technology (RS remote sensing technology, GIS geographic information systems, and GPS global positioning systems), have been aggressively deployed to accelerate the modernization of Chinese agriculture.

by Synced 2019-10-11 Number of comments0

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OpenCV-Inspired Kornia Is a Differentiable Computer Vision Library for PyTorch

Inspired by OpenCV, Kornia is based on PyTorch and designed to solve generic computer vision problems.