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by Synced 2019-07-18 1

AI Research

Deep TabNine: A Powerful AI Code Autocompleter For Developers

The developers behind TabNine have introduced a new deep learning model, “Deep TabNine,” which significantly improves suggestion quality.

by Synced 2019-07-18 5

AI Research

Researchers Fool LiDAR with 3D-Printed Adversarial Objects

Researchers from Baidu Research, the University of Michigan, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have published a method for generating adversarial objects that can befuddle the LiDAR point cloud and compromise security in vehicles using the tech.

by Synced 2019-07-17 84

AI Research

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Plans to Put Chips in Human Brains by 2020

Two years ago Elon Musk launched a company called Neuralink. Musk already leads high-profile companies including Tesla, SpaceX, and Hyperloop, but Neuralink may be the 48 year-old entrepreneur’s most ambitious plan yet: to surgically connect human brains with artificial intelligence through an ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interface.

by Synced 2019-07-16 7

AI Research

DeepMind DVD-GAN: Impressive Step Toward Realistic Video Synthesis

he rapid development of AI models such as variational autoencoders (VAE) and generative adversarial networks (GAN) that can generate audio, images and video has opened a Pandora’s box of digital fakery.

by Synced 2019-07-16 7

AI Research

Magically Remove Moving Objects from Video

Have you ever shot a perfect video only to have it spoiled by an unsightly pedestrian, truck or other moving object passing through the frame? Although most people know how to crop or photoshop their photos to remove unwanted stuff, doing so with video is another matter entirely.

by Synced 2019-07-15 1

AI Research

CMU Creates Language2Pose Model that Generates Animations From Text

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have made another leap in the field with their Joint Language-to-Pose (JL2P) model, which generate animations from text input via a joint multimodal space comprising language and poses.

by Synced 2019-07-15 5

AI China Research

Who Let the Dogs Out? Ask Megvii’s Nose Print Recognition System

Although there are many means for identifying and locating a missing person — police and amber alerts, photos and biometrics such as fingerprints and even facial recognition — few of these resources are available for finding a lost dog, and about 75 percent of dogs in the USA are not microchipped.

by Synced 2019-07-14 1

AI AI Weekly

Google and NVIDIA Break MLPerf Records; Facebook Bot Beats Poker Pros

Synced Global AI Weekly July 14th

by Synced 2019-07-13 4

AI Industry

How NLP Is Advancing Asset Management

Although natural language processing (NLP) has been around for decades, the recent and rapid rise of deep learning algorithms together with the increasing availability of massive amounts of text data are creating new and appealing opportunities for the tech across many industry sectors, including in the investment world.

by Synced 2019-07-12 2

AI Research

Harvard’s Tiny, Solar-Powered Flying Robot

Last month, Harvard Microrobotics Lab researchers introduced RoboBee X-Wing, a solar-powered micro-aerial vehicle that fits in the palm of your hand.

by Synced 2019-07-12 3

AI Industry

A New Paradigm for Production in the AI Era

Artificial intelligence is having a revolutionary effect on industrial production. In the following article, Baidu Ventures Partner and Founder of Comet Labs Saman Farid shares his thoughts on recent changes and future trends in Machine learning-driven production philosophies and technologies.

by Synced 2019-07-11 5

AI Research

‘An Absolute Monster Bluffer’ – Facebook & CMU AI Bot Beats Poker Pros

Don’t simply “all in” if there’s a bot at your Texas hold’em poker table, because Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University’s new *Pluribus* AI system just beat five human pros at the same time — including a couple of World Series of Poker Champs.

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AI Research

Google and NVIDIA Break MLPerf Records

Forerunners Google and NVIDIA announced today that they have set new AI training time records on the MLPerf benchmark competition.

by Synced 2019-07-10 1

AI Research

StarCraft II Players Get the Chance to Play Against DeepMind’s AlphaStar!

Blizzard Entertainment, the American video game developer and publisher behind the StarCraft series, announced that AlphaStar will join the competitive ladder in Europe on the online gaming platform Battle.net, where it will play a limited number of games against human players.

by Synced 2019-07-10 11

AI Industry

Are Commercial Labs Stealing Academia’s AI Thunder?

Commercial research labs run by Google Research, DeepMind, and OpenAI are taking central stage in the artificial intelligence era. The eye-popping achievements of these massively-funded AI labs are constantly producing headlines in tech journals and even mainstream media.

by Synced 2019-07-09 Number of comments0

AI Research

BigGAN + BiGAN = BigBiGAN | DeepMind Model Excels in Unsupervised Representation Learning and Image Generation

Leading UK AI research company DeepMind has now proposed “BigBiGAN” (not BigBigGAN, but BigBiGAN), which achieves state-of-the-art results in both unsupervised representation learning on ImageNet and in unconditional image generation.

by Synced 2019-07-09 1

AI Research

New Repository Provides NumPy Implementation of ML Models

If you are a developer who has ever wished for a rich collection of machine learning algorithms implemented exclusively in NumPy, then you’ll love Numpy-ml — a new GitHub project that’s winning accolades from across the global machine learning community.

by Synced 2019-07-08 2

AI Conference

How Uber & Lyft Use AI to Improve Ride Experience

At last month’s RE•WORK Applied AI Summit 2019 in San Francisco, AI experts from Uber and Lyft shared insights on how the companies are leveraging machine learning algorithms to improve their services for both riders and drivers.

by Synced 2019-07-08 Number of comments0

AI Research

Landmark Assisted CycleGAN: Draw Me Like One of Your Cartoon Girls

A group of researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Harbin Institute of Technology and Tencent have proposed a method to create such cartoon faces from photos of human faces via a novel CycleGAN model informed by facial landmarks.

by Synced 2019-07-07 1

AI AI Weekly

Alibaba, Baidu and Xiaomi Open-Source Their SOTA Research

Synced Global AI Weekly July 7th

by Synced 2019-07-06 28

AI Industry

AI x Global 500 Manufacturing Companies | Robots, Data & Maintenance

Artificial intelligence is changing the operation modes of industrial production, and has become one of the key tools in the new era of global manufacturing.

by Synced 2019-07-05 17

AI Industry

Natural Beauty Meets Artificial Intelligence

The global cosmetic products market is expected to climb to US$863 billion in 2024 — an impressive CAGR of above 7 percent.

by Synced 2019-07-04 Number of comments0

AI Research

DeepMind Transporter: Unsupervised Learning of Object Keypoints

In common reinforcement learning (RL) domains, existing keypoint discovery methods struggle to perceive keypoints in an image when there are limited objects present.

by Synced 2019-07-03 3

AI Asia China Industry

Baidu PaddlePaddle DL Framework & Huawei Kirin SoC: A Formidable Partnership

Baidu’s homegrown deep learning framework PaddlePaddle will empower Huawei’s Kirin smartphone chips, the company announced at the Baidu Create 2019 AI Developer Conference that kicked off today in Beijing.

by Synced 2019-07-03 Number of comments0

AI Industry

Concerns on Social Media Over Google ML Patents

A Reddit post has triggered discussions regarding a patent Google filed on Dropout supposedly becoming active last week.

by Synced 2019-07-02 Number of comments0

AI Research

MIT Drag-and-Drop Data Analytics: Machine Learning for Everyone

MIT and Brown have now upgraded the Northstar platform with an AutoML-based component called Virtual Data Scientist (VDS), which helps users generate machine learning models to run prediction tasks on datasets.

by Synced 2019-07-01 Number of comments0

AI Research

Searching for Code? Let a Neural Network Do That for You!

Facebook published a blog article demonstrating their newly developed code search tool, Neural Code Search (NCS).

by Synced 2019-06-30 1

AI AI Weekly Industry Self Driving

Sidewalk Labs Releases $900 Million Blueprint for Toronto’s Tomorrow; Autonomous Vehicle Enterprises Explore New Roads

Synced Global AI Weekly June 30th

by Synced 2019-06-29 2

AI Industry

AI x Global 500 Healthcare Companies | Drug Supply, Wearables & Glucose Monitoring

In the late 2000s Fortune Global 500 healthcare companies ramped up AI deployment in the industry, from in-hospital diagnosis and treatment to drug supply chain and out-of-hospital scenarios.

by Synced 2019-06-28 5

AI Industry

DeepFake Nudie App Goes Viral, Then Shuts Down

Just two days after a story on Motherboard went viral, developers of the “DeepNude” AI-powered software that enables users to virtually disrobe images of women have announced they are shutting down the website and the free and premium versions of the app they launched in March.

by Synced 2019-06-28 Number of comments0

AI Conference Research

Local Temporal Bilinear Pooling for Fine-Grained Action Parsing

Parsing fine-grained temporal actions is vital in application scenarios that require an understanding of detailed and precise operations over long-term periods, such as daily activity understanding, surgical robots, human motion analysis and animal behavior analysis.

by Synced 2019-06-27 55

AI Research

The Staggering Cost of Training SOTA AI Models

While it is exhilarating to see AI researchers pushing the performance of cutting-edge models to new heights, the costs of such processes are also rising at a dizzying rate.

by Synced 2019-06-27 5

AI Research

Geoffrey Hinton’s Unsupervised Capsule Networks Achieve SOTA Results on SVHN

In 2017 the “Godfather of Deep Learning” Geoffrey Hinton and his students Sara Sabour and Nicholas Frosst proposed the discrimininatively trained, multi-layer capsule system “CapsNet” in their paper Dynamic Routing Between Capsules.

by Synced 2019-06-26 7

AI Research

Facebook Model Pretrained on Billions of Instagram Hashtags Achieves SOTA Results on Top-1 ImageNet

Facebook AI research team show how they trained a large convolutional network to predict hashtags on some 3.5 billion social media images. The research returned a state-of-the-art top-1 accuracy result of 85.4 percent on ImageNet.

by Synced 2019-06-25 Number of comments0

AI Research

Microsoft Obj-GAN Turns Words into Complex Scenes

Researchers from Microsoft and JD AI Labs have proposed Object-driven Attentive Generative Adversarial Networks (Obj-GAN) a new model capable of generating relatively complex scenes based on a short phrase or sentence of descriptive text.

by Synced 2019-06-24 1

AI Research

CMU & Google XLNet Tops BERT; Achieves SOTA Results on 18 NLP Tasks

A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Google Brain have now proposed XLNet, a new language model which outperforms BERT on 20 language tasks including SQuAD, GLUE, and RACE; and has achieved SOTA results on 18 of these tasks.

by Synced 2019-06-23 3

AI AI Weekly Industry

CVPR Announces Best Paper Awards; ImageNet Honoured 10 Years Later

Synced Global AI Weekly June 23th

by Synced 2019-06-22 12

AI Industry

AI Development and Trends in E-Commerce

The traditional retail industry is undergoing a significant reinvention and upgrade as more and more brick and mortar stores boost business by adopting e-commerce platforms powered by cutting-edge tech.

by Synced 2019-06-21 7

AI China Industry

Huawei 7nm Kirin 810 Beats Snapdragon 855 and Kirin 980 on AI Benchmark Test

At Huawei’s Nova 5 Series smartphone launch event yesterday the Chinese tech giant unveiled its new 7nm SoC, the Kirin 810.

by Synced 2019-06-21 Number of comments0

AI Conference

Build Realistic Human Speech Animations with the New VOCA Model and 4D Face Dataset

In a new paper accepted at CVPR 2019, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems introduce a unique 4D (moving 3D images) face dataset and its learned model VOCA — Voice Operated Character Animation.