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by Synced 2019-09-13 Number of comments0

AI Industry

IEEE Ranks Robot Creepiness: Sophia Is Not Even Close to the Top

Based on users’ votes, IEEE Spectrum also compiles rankings of today’s Top Rated, Most Wanted, and Creepiest Robots. Join Synced as we take a stroll through the uncanny valley and meet the world’s top-three creepiest robots.

by Synced 2019-09-12 9

AI Research

Nasty Language Processing: Textual Triggers Transform Bots Into Bigots

Now a group of researchers from the Seattle-based Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) have shown how trigger words and phrases can “inflict targeted errors” on natural language processing (NLP) model outputs, prompting them to generate racist and hostile content.

by Synced 2019-09-11 Number of comments0

AI Research

QAit AI Learns by Interacting With Its Environment

For an AI system to acquire knowledge the way humans generally do it would need to interact with its surroundings and extract information through its own attention and analysis choices. That’s the idea behind a new paper from Microsoft Research, Polytechnique Montreal, MILA and and the University of Montreal.

by Synced 2019-09-10 8

AI Industry

AI Chip Duel: Apple A13 Bionic VS Huawei Kirin 990 5G

“A13 Bionic is the fastest chip ever in a smartphone, that quickly handles the tasks that matter most to people every day,” boasted Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller this morning at the Apple’s annual product conference in Cupertino, California.

by Synced 2019-09-10 3

AI Research

Chinese Gaming Giant NetEase Leverages AI to Create 3D Game Characters from Selfies

A team of researchers from the Chinese gaming giant NetEase have developed a method to automatically create players’ in-game characters from a standard portrait photo.

by Synced 2019-09-09 3

AI Industry Research

R.I.P. Python 2: October 16, 2000 – January 1, 2020

In an official statement released today on python.org, the volunteer team that manages the programming language announced they will sunset Python 2 on January 1, 2020.

by Synced 2019-09-09 5

AI Asia China Industry

Top 10 Chinese Cities for AI Development: Beijing Ranks No. 1

China’s goal of becoming the world’s leading AI innovation center by 2030 is based on an ambitious blueprint that encourages individual cities to develop and strengthen AI ecosystems.

by Synced 2019-09-08 3

AI AI Weekly

Facebook Leaks Data of 419M Users; NeurIPS 2019 Accepted Papers Announced; AI Passes 8th Grade Science Test

Synced Global AI Weekly September 8th

by Synced 2019-09-07 4

AI Industry

AI-Powered Stickers and Emojis Deliver Next-Gen Personalisation

More and more social apps are now leveraging AI technologies such as machine learning, deep neural networks and facial recognition to enable users to create highly-individualized emojis from selfies and photos.

by Synced 2019-09-06 Number of comments0

Research

Facebook Introduces Dataset & Challenge to Counter DeepFakes

In collaboration with Partnership on AI, Microsoft, and academics from top universities, Facebook today announced the Deepfake Detection Challenge (DFDC) with the aim of finding innovative deepfake detection solutions to help the media industry spot videos that have been morphed by AI models.

by Synced 2019-09-06 1

AI Asia China Industry

Huawei Introduces World’s First Flagship 5G SoC in Challenge to Samsung and Qualcomm

Huawei did not disappoint when the IFA 2019 opened this morning, announcing the new Kirin 990 5G, whose built-in 5G modem makes it the world’s first-ever 5G flagship chipset.

by Synced 2019-09-05 Number of comments0

AI Research

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, AI Knows Where You Are

A group of Chinese researchers have come up with a novel method for identifying mirrors in images which outperforms state-of-the-art detection and segmentation methods on targeted baselines.

by Synced 2019-09-04 Number of comments0

AI Research

One Network to Fit All Hardware: New MIT AutoML Method Trains 14X Faster Than SOTA NAS

A group of MIT researchers (Han Cai, Chuang Gan and Song Han) have introduced a “Once for All” (OFA) network that achieves the same or better level accuracy as state-of-the-art AutoML methods on ImageNet, with a significant speedup in training time.

by Synced 2019-09-03 1

AI China Research

Chinese “DeepFake” App Goes Viral, Renewing Concerns About Potential Misuse of Face-Swapping Tech

A recently released Chinese deepfake mobile application, “ZAO,” enables just about anyone to easily swap faces with popular characters such as Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory, Marilyn Monroe’s Lorelei Lee in Gentleman Prefer Blondes, Jack Dawson in The Titanic, and so on.

by Synced 2019-09-03 3

AI Research

Clone a Voice in Five Seconds With This AI Toolbox

A new Github project introduces a remarkable Real-Time Voice Cloning Toolbox that enables anyone to clone a voice from as little as five seconds of sample audio.

by Synced 2019-09-02 2

AI Research

AI Video Colourization Without References or Human Guidance

If the great Charlie Chaplin were alive today he might well marvel at the artificial intelligence enabled colour versions of his comedy masterpieces such as Modern Times or The Idle Class.

by Synced 2019-09-01 1

AI AI Weekly Research

Jack Ma and Elon Musk Debate AI in Shanghai; Apple Makes A Rare Apology; Self-Driving Taxi Concerns

Synced Global AI Weekly September 1st

by Synced 2019-08-31 10

AI Industry Research

Why AI Is Reading Your Resume and What Can You Do About It

Artificial intelligence can help companies navigate a global human resource market that is projected to reach US$30 billion by 2025, due in large part to technological proliferation.

by Synced 2019-08-30 Number of comments0

AI Conference Research

Meet Microsoft Suphx: The World’s Strongest Mahjong AI

At the Shanghai World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) on August 29, Microsoft’s Global Executive Vice President Harry Shum officially introduced MSRA’s Suphx (“Super Phoenix”) as “the most powerful Mahjong AI in history,”

by Synced 2019-08-29 16

AI Research

Adversarial Patch on Hat Fools SOTA Facial Recognition

Researchers from Lomonosov Moscow State University and Huawei Moscow Research Center have introduced a wearable card designed to perform the opposite function — concealing a person’s identity from facial recognition systems.

by Synced 2019-08-29 13

AI Research

AI Creates Fashion Models With Custom Outfits and Poses

A new research paper from Berlin-based unicorn fashion and technology company Zalando uses generative adversarial networks (GANs) to produce high-resolution images of virtual fashion models ready to model clothes of any style.

by Synced 2019-08-28 9

AI Industry

Data Annotation: The Billion Dollar Business Behind AI Breakthroughs

Most insiders Synced interviewed agreed that machine learning training methods which require less labeled data — such as weakly supervised learning, few-shot learning and unsupervised learning — are achieving some promising results.

by Synced 2019-08-27 1

Research

OpenAI Method Evaluates Model Defense Against Unforeseen Adversarial Examples

To ramp up the robustness of neural networks, researchers from OpenAI have introduced a novel method that evaluates how well a neural network classifier performs against adversarial attacks that were not seen during their training.

by Synced 2019-08-26 4

AI Industry

Humans Don’t Realize How Biased They Are Until AI Reproduces the Same Bias, Says UNESCO AI Chair

In a recent interview with Synced, Shawe-Taylor spoke on his role at UNESCO, emerging AI trends and the tech’s unseemly side, human-centered AI research, and the progress of AI in Europe.

by Synced 2019-08-25 2

AI AI Weekly Research

California Startup Builds Worlds Largest AI Chip; Open AI Releases 774M Parameter Language Model; Waymo Shares Its Open Dataset

Synced Global AI Weekly August 25th

by Synced 2019-08-24 1

Research

Autonomous Delivery Moves From Research Labs to the Streets

According to multinational consulting firm McKinsey & Company, by the year 2025 some 85 percent of last-mile deliveries will be carried by autonomous vehicles.

by Synced 2019-08-23 5

AI Asia China Research

Huawei’s First Commercial AI Chip Doubles the Training Performance of Nvidia’s Flagship GPU

Ascend 910 delivers performance of up to 256 teraFLOPS under FP16 and 512 teraOPS under IN8 with declared max power consumption of 310W.

by Synced 2019-08-23 2

AI Research

MIT & Adobe Introduce Real Time AR Tool for Storytelling

Researchers from MIT Media Lab and Adobe Research recently introduced a real-time interactive augmented video system that enables presenters to use their bodies as storytelling tools by linking gestures to illustrative virtual graphic elements.

by Synced 2019-08-22 2

AI China Research

Shared Machine Learning: Ant Financial’s Solution For Data Privacy

One of the world’s largest financial companies, Alibaba subsidiary Ant Financial, recently introduced Shared Machine Learning (SML) as their solution for data privacy.

by Synced 2019-08-22 Number of comments0

AI Research

AutoML + GAN = AutoGAN! AI Can Now Design Better GAN Models Than Humans

Thanks to the creation of AutoML — which is essentially automated neural architecture search (NAS) — AI can now design better deep neural networks than human researchers for computer vision tasks such as image classification and object detection.

by Synced 2019-08-21 1

AI Research

How to Hide Your Feelings From AI Voice Assistants

No matter whether the conversations commence with “Ok, Google”, “Hello Alexa”, or “Hey Siri”, tech giants Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft have all granted third-party contractors access to their users’ many interactions with voice assistants.

by Synced 2019-08-20 Number of comments0

AI Research

Seoul National University AI Uses Text Tags to Colourize Line Drawings

Let’s say you’ve just sketched a portrait but don’t have the inclination to hand-colour your creation. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could simply tell an artificial intelligence assistant what colours you want and have it do the rest? Well, now you can!

by Synced 2019-08-20 Number of comments0

AI Conference Industry Research

Hot Chips | A California Startup Has Built an AI Chip as Big as a Notebook. Why?

California artificial intelligence startup Cerebras Systems yesterday introduced its Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE), the world’s largest-ever chip built for neural network processing.

by Synced 2019-08-19 Number of comments0

AI Research

Of Mice and Machines: Can AI Read Rodents’ Minds?

Researchers from Two Six Labs and Stanford Schnitzer Lab have developed a deep learning system designed to explore the workings of the mouse mind and predict behavior by processing brain-based electrical activity with a neural network.

by Synced 2019-08-18 1

AI AI Weekly Industry Research

A Trio of Machine Learning & Language Technology Breakthroughs You Shouldn’t Miss

Synced Global AI Weekly August 18th

by Synced 2019-08-17 5

AI Industry

Why Automation Isn’t the Answer to Smart Manufacturing

While management teams and consultants may spout trendy tech terms such as “process”, “automated”, or “smart”, and seem keen to hand over precisely-timed, measured tasks to machines, the truth is that AI tech is not a panacea — because manufacturing is hard.

by Synced 2019-08-16 3

AI Event Global News US & Canada

Masters Will Share Insights at First Toronto Kaggle Days Meetup

Synced would like to invite Toronto AI and data science students and researchers to join representatives of the world’s largest data science community for an evening of networking, discussions, and refreshments!

by Synced 2019-08-16 Number of comments0

AI Research

DeepMind ‘Bsuite’ Evaluates Reinforcement Learning Agents

Now AI researchers have created a similar evaluation system to assess the relative performance of reinforcement learning (RL) systems across different tasks.

by Synced 2019-08-16 Number of comments0

AI Research

Israeli AI Research Company Led by Stanford Professor and MobileEye CEO Introduces Model to Solve Text Ambiguity

Israeli research company AI21 Labs today published the paper SenseBERT: Driving Some Sense into BERT, which proposes a new model that significantly improves lexical disambiguation abilities and has obtained state-of-the-art results on the complex Word in Context (WiC) language task.

by Synced 2019-08-15 1

AI Research

Facebook, Georgia Tech & OSU ‘ViLBERT’ Achieves SOTA on Vision-and-Language Tasks

A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Facebook AI Research and Oregon State University has proposed ViLBERT (Vision-and-Language BERT), a novel model for visual grounding that can learn joint representations of image content and natural language.