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by Synced 2019-10-10 1

AI Industry

Facebook Debuts PyTorch 1.3 With PyTorch Mobile, Quantization, TPU Support and More

The latest version, PyTorch 1.3, includes PyTorch Mobile, quantization, and Google Cloud TPU support. The release was announced today at the PyTorch Developer Conference in San Francisco.

by Synced 2019-10-10 1

AI Industry

Open Source Hardware Trends, Arm Takes a Different Tack

Although the term “open source” conveys sentiments such as research sharing and community building, leading semiconductor IP provider Arm, which supports 95 percent of smartphone embedded processors, is not a fan.

by Synced 2019-10-10 1

AI Industry

Is NVIDIA Doubling Down On RISC-V?

The US chip giant now appears to be exploring the terrain beyond GPU architecture, raising the stakes on other dedicated electronic circuits.

by Synced 2019-10-09 3

AI Research

Watch Out, MIT’s New AI Model Knows What You’re Doing Behind That Wall

For better or worse, AI can now figure out what you’re doing even without “seeing” you. The MIT Computer Science & AI Lab (CSAIL) has unveiled a neural network model that can detect human actions through walls or in extremely dark places.

by Synced 2019-10-08 1

AI Research

ChipGAN Style Transfer Masters Chinese Ink Wash Painting

In the paper ChipGAN: A Generative Adversarial Network for Chinese Ink Wash Painting Style Transfer, a team of researchers from Peking University and Tsinghua University propose an end-to-end GAN-based architecture that can transfer input photos into the style of Chinese ink wash paintings.

by Synced 2019-10-07 2

AI Asia China Research

Huawei’s TinyBERT Is 7X Smaller and 9X Faster Than BERT

Researchers from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab have introduced TinyBERT, a smaller and faster version of Google’s popular large-scale pre-trained language processing model BERT.

by Synced 2019-10-06 5

AI AI Weekly

TensorFlow 2.0 Released; Google’s Large Scale Multilingual Speech Recognition; AI Responds to Climate Change

Synced Global AI Weekly October 6th

by Synced 2019-10-05 6

AI Industry

Can AI Assist in Suicide Prevention?

Figures from nonprofit organization Mental Health America show the severe depression rate for US youth increased from 5.9 to 8.2 percent over the last five years. The numbers provide a sobering glimpse of the shortcomings in mental health care, and some researchers are suggesting AI might be able to address the problem.

by Synced 2019-10-04 2

AI Research

Google Accelerates Quantum Computation with Classical Machine Learning

Tech giant Google’s recent claim regarding quantum supremacy created a buzz in the computer science community and got global mainstream media talking about quantum computing breakthroughs.

by Synced 2019-10-04 2

AI Research

Hugging Face Implements SOTA Transformer Architectures for PyTorch and TensorFlow 2.0

NLP-focused startup Hugging Face recently released a major update to their popular “PyTorch Transformers” library which establishes compatibility between PyTorch and TensorFlow 2.0.

by Synced 2019-10-03 5

AI Research

NVIDIA & ORNL Researchers Train AI Model on World’s Top Supercomputer Using 27,600 NVIDIA GPUs

A research team from NVIDIA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and Uber has introduced new techniques that enabled them to train a fully convolutional neural network on the world’s fastest supercomputer, Summit, with up to 27,600 NVIDIA GPUs.

by Synced 2019-10-02 3

AI Research

DeepMind Uses GANs to Convert Text to Speech

DeepMind researchers are expanding GANs to audio, with a new adversarial network approach for high fidelity speech synthesis.

by Synced 2019-10-02 1

AI Conference Global News US & Canada

‘AI in Action’ | Toronto Hosts AI Squared Forum 2019

On September 22 about 300 artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning enthusiasts gathered at the University of Toronto Bahen Centre for Information Technology for the AI Squared Forum 2019.

by Synced 2019-10-01 7

AI Research

GitHub Releases Dataset of Six Million Open-Source Methods for Code Search Research

In a bid to help software developers and foster innovative code search research, GitHub last week announced the CodeSearchNet Challenge in a joint effort with California-based machine learning development tools startup Weights & Biases.

by Synced 2019-10-01 2

AI Research

What Does ‘Broken’ Sound Like? First-Ever Audio Dataset of Malfunctioning Industrial Machines

An R&D team from Japanese multinational conglomerate Hitachi has proposed a similar, sound-based technique for identifying malfunctioning industrial robots on a factory floor.

by Synced 2019-09-30 3

AI Research

The Wait is Over -TensorFlow 2.0 Released!

Google today announced the final release of TensorFlow 2.0. This follows the platform’s alpha release at the TensorFlow Dev Summit in June.

by Synced 2019-09-30 11

AI Research

Picture Perfect Beauty Courtesy AI Makeup Artist

A multi-institute research group recently released the paper PSGAN: Pose-Robust Spatial-Aware GAN for Customizable Makeup Transfer, which proposes a novel method for transferring makeup styles from a reference picture to a user’s source image.

by Synced 2019-09-29 1

AI AI Weekly

Boston Dynamics Lets the Dogs Out; Google Releases Deepfake Detection Dataset

Synced Global AI Weekly September 29th

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AI Research

Free (Robot) Hugs! An Embracing Multimodal Dataset

In an attempt to unlock the science behind hugs, a team of researchers from Arizona State University slapped wearable sensors on 33 humans and collected data on their more than 350 huggings with the humanoid remote-controlled robot “Baxter.”

by Synced 2019-09-27 Number of comments0

AI Research

Google’s ALBERT Is a Leaner BERT; Achieves SOTA on 3 NLP Benchmarks

Google’s new “ALBERT” language model has achieved state-of-the-art results on three popular benchmark tests for natural language understanding (NLU): GLUE, RACE, and SQuAD 2.0.

by Synced 2019-09-26 Number of comments0

AI Asia China Industry

ARM and Qualcomm Will Continue to Supply Huawei Despite US Ban

Chinese news outlet Caixin is reporting that UK-based chip designer ARM confirmed on Wednesday it will continue to license its chip design architecture to Chinese tech giant Huawei and the company’s chip unit HiSilicon Technologies despite a US trade ban.

by Synced 2019-09-26 Number of comments0

AI Research

Training SOTA Language Models With Three Lines of Code

Hugging Face, a startup specializing in natural language processing, today released a landmark update to their popular Transformers library, offering unprecedented compatibility between two major deep learning frameworks, PyTorch and TensorFlow 2.0.

by Synced 2019-09-26 3

AI Research

Reproducibility Challenges in Machine Learning for Health

A team of researchers have proposed a number of “recommendations to data providers, academic publishers, and the ML4H research community in order to promote reproducible research moving forward” in their new paper Reproducibility in Machine Learning for Health.

by Synced 2019-09-25 Number of comments0

AI Research

What’s Cooking? Google VideoBERT Predicts Recipes

This summer Google Research extended BERT to video and introduced VideoBERT, a self-supervised learning model that can learn the relationship between videos and texts.

by Synced 2019-09-25 2

AI Asia China Conference Industry

Alibaba’s New AI Chip Can Process Nearly 80K Images Per Second

At the Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) Apsara Conference 2019, Pingtouge unveiled its first AI dedicated processor for cloud-based large-scale AI inferencing. The Hanguang 800 is the first semiconductor product in Alibaba’s 20-year history.

by Synced 2019-09-24 11

AI Research

Researchers Use Vile Comments from Trump Subreddit to Train AI to Battle Hate Speech

Researchers from Intel AI and University of California at Santa Barbara have introduced a new generative hate speech intervention model, along with two large-scale fully-labeled hate speech datasets collected from Reddit and Gab.

by Synced 2019-09-24 1

AI Industry

Amazon ML Director Begins DeepMind Professorship at Cambridge

The University of Cambridge has appointed Professor Neil Lawrence as its first DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning, a new position supported by Google-owned, UK-based AI research company DeepMind.

by Synced 2019-09-23 Number of comments0

AI Research

Transformer-Based Language Model Writes Abstracts For Scientific Papers

Researchers from Element AI, MILA (Montréal Institute for Learning Algorithms), and Université de Montréal have introduced a powerful transfer language model that can summarize long scientific articles effectively, outperforming traditional seq2seq approaches.

by Synced 2019-09-23 2

AI Industry

AI vs AI: ‘FakeSpotter’ Studies Neurons to Bust DeepFakes

“Adversaries and strategic competitors probably will attempt to use deep fakes or similar machine-learning technologies to create convincing — but false — image, audio, and video files to augment influence campaigns directed against the United States and our allies and partners.”

by Synced 2019-09-22 Number of comments0

AI AI Weekly Industry

Open AI Agents Play Hide-and-Seek; Google Invests $3.3B in Clean Data Centers; Cambridge Appoints First DeepMind Professor of ML

Synced Global AI Weekly September 22nd

by Synced 2019-09-21 3

AI Industry

AI Visualizes Your Post Cosmetic Surgery Appearance

Cosmetic surgery companies are turning to big data, facial recognition, neural networks, adversarial learning and deep learning technologies that can assess the human face and generate outcomes for a specific procedures to guide patients to their best surgical options.

by Synced 2019-09-20 Number of comments0

AI Asia China Conference

Huawei Flexes AI Muscle With New Mate 30 Gesture Control and Smart Rotation

Chinese tech giant Huawei yesterday introduced the latest iteration of its flagship smartphone: Mate 30, Mate 30 Pro and Mate 30 Pro (5G).

by Synced 2019-09-20 2

AI Conference Industry

RE•WORK AI in Finance | Federated AI, Reinforcement Learning and BERT

At last week’s Re•Work AI in Finance Conference in New York, researchers and engineers from banks and academia alike shared their thoughts on current AI research and applications in the finance world.

by Synced 2019-09-19 1

AI Conference Industry

RE•WORK AI in Insurance Summit NYC 2019: AI Underwriting, Fraud Detection, and More

The Re•Work AI in Insurance Summit in New York City was held September 5-6 and saw 60 speakers from insurance-related companies cover a wide range of topics — from detecting claims fraud to applying machine learning to underwriting and maximizing revenue.

by Synced 2019-09-18 1

AI Research

Quantum Chemistry Breakthrough: DeepMind Uses Neural Networks to Tackle Schrödinger Equation

DeepMind researchers have brought quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) to a higher level with the Fermionic Neural Network — or Fermi Net — a neural network with more flexibility and higher accuracy.

by Synced 2019-09-18 2

AI Research

New AI Technique Builds Dynamic Images From a Single Photo

A new Adobe-developed AI tool significantly lowers the threshold for producing dynamic images with a framework that synthesizes a “3D Ken Burns effect” from a single image.

by Synced 2019-09-17 1

AI Research

Why Playing Hide-and-Seek Could Lead AI to Humanlike Intelligence

A new paper from San Francisco-based OpenAI proposes training models in the children’s game of hide-and-seek and pitting them against each other.

by Synced 2019-09-16 7

AI Research

New AI Face Anonymization Model Protects Privacy

A team of researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology recently proposed a new architecture that can anonymize faces in images automatically while the original data distribution remains uninterrupted.

by Synced 2019-09-15 2

AI AI Weekly Industry Research

Apple A13 Bionic VS Huawei Kirin 990 5G; Is $1 Billion AI Investment Not Enough?; R.I.P Python 2

Synced Global AI Weekly September 15th

by Synced 2019-09-14 20

AI Industry Self Driving

LiDAR Industry Hits Impasse: Was Elon Musk Right After All?

Since the business mindset is to focus on short-term feasible technologies, the lack of serious buyers is the real problem for the LiDAR industry.