Synced - Part 54

by Synced 2018-10-22 2

CVPR Paper Controversy; ML Community Reviews Peer Review

Peer review is an essential process that subjects new research to the scrutiny of other experts in the same field. Today’s top Machine Learning (ML) conferences are heavily reliant on peer review as it allows them to gauge submitted academic papers’ quality and suitability.

by Synced 2018-10-20 6

AI Self Driving

Checkout-Free Stores Going Global

According to the National Retail Federation there were approximately 3.8 million retail stores that provided more than 42 million jobs in the US in 2016. Retail store sales are forecasted to grow 3.4 percent this year, although this trails the 7-10 percent sales rise expected from E-commerce sites.

by Synced 2018-10-19 0

AI Research

DeepMind Releases Graph Nets Library

DeepMind announced today that it has opened its Graph Nets (GN) library to the public, enabling the use of graph networks in TensorFlow and Sonnet. Graph Nets is a machine learning framework that was published by DeepMind, Google Brain, MIT and University of Edinburgh on Jun 15.

by Synced 2018-10-19 0

AI China

China Gets a Piece of PAI: Why Baidu Joining the US-Led AI Consortium Is a Big Deal

Adding Baidu’s voice will broaden PAI’s understanding of global AI technologies and their ethical implications. Chinese companies are pushing forward with a wide adoption of AI technologies across industries from healthcare to transportation and beyond.

by Synced 2018-10-19 1

AI Industry Self Driving

Drive.ai Launches Autonomous Ride-Hailing Service in Arlington, Texas

The slogan of Arlington, Texas is “American Dream City,” and as residents start their commute this morning some may wonder if they are in fact dreaming. A fleet of futuristic autonomous vehicles today began chauffeuring Arlingtonites along city streets in self-driving startup Drive.ai’s latest public road testing project.

by Synced 2018-10-18 1

AI Research

BAIR Open-Sources Popular DeepMimic Project

The DeepMimic paper’s first author, Berkeley PhD student Xue Bin Peng, has now open-sourced the project’s codes, data, and frameworks. Moreover, Peng’s new research demonstrates that DeepMimic’s simulated characters can also learn to perform highly dynamic movements by using regular video clips of human examples as input data.

by Synced 2018-10-18 0

AI Research

DeepMind Open-Sources RL Library TRFL

DeepMind announced today that it is open-sourcing its TRFL (pronounced ‘truffle’) library, which contains a variety of building blocks useful for developing reinforcement learning (RL) agents in TensorFlow.

by Synced 2018-10-17 0

AI Self Driving

New Funding Pushes Chinese Self-Driving Startup Momenta’s Valuation to $1Bn

Beijing-based self-driving startup Momenta has closed its latest funding round to boost its total funding to over US$200 million. The company bills itself as China’s most valuable autonomous driving startup, with an estimated worth of US$1 billion.

by Synced 2018-10-17 0

AI

Xilinx Showcases 7nm Programmable Chip at Beijing Developer Forum

Xilinx believes one solution is its recently-released, cutting-edge 7nm programmable chip Versal. The chip is based on Xilinx Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP) technology and built with 7nm FinFET manufacturing process technology, integrating the Arm Cortex-A72 and Cortex-R5, an AI engine and DSP engine.

by Synced 2018-10-16 6

AI United States

Best NLP Model Ever? Google BERT Sets New Standards in 11 Language Tasks

The new Google AI paper BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding is receiving accolades from across the machine learning community.

by Synced 2018-10-15 1

AI AI Bi-Weekly

AI Biweekly: Voice Interaction and NLP Business Applications; Logistics’ Last Mile Challenge

10 Things You Must Know From October W 1 – W 2

by Synced 2018-10-15 1

AI United States

MIT Is Opening a $1Bn AI College

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced they will invest US$1 billion into a new college for artificial intelligence. The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing will “constitute both a global center for computing research and education, and an intellectual foundry for powerful new AI tools.”

by Synced 2018-10-13 0

AI Research

DeNA’s PSGAN Dresses Anime Characters at 1024×1024 Pixels

Founded in 1999, Tokyo-based DeNA has developed popular platforms and services for gaming, E-commerce, automotive, healthcare and entertainment content distribution. As AI continues transforming all things digital, DeNA is expanding its deep learning tech capabilities to support R&D on new techniques.

by Synced 2018-10-12 1

AI United States

Millions Are Proposing to Alexa

Virtual personal assistants have become an integral part of our everyday lives. So much so that some people want to take the relationship with their digital friend to the next level. A new Business Insider article reveals that over one million people asked Amazon’s Alexa to marry them in 2017.

by Synced 2018-10-12 0

AI Conference

RE•WORK London Deep Learning Summit

Last month’s ReWork Deep Learning Summit in London provided a peek at current recent research progress and future trends in artificial intelligence technologies. The two-day event featured top scientists and engineers from Facebook, MIT Media lab, DeepMind and other leading institutes.

by Synced 2018-10-11 1

AI

Watch This Boston Dynamics Robot Performs Incredible Parkour

The robotics star company Boston Dynamics today posted a Youtube video of its humanoid robot Atlas doing parkour. It was a wow moment when Atlas smoothly jumps over the log and leaps up steps (40 cm step height) without breaking its pace.

by Synced 2018-10-11 0

AI Research

SJTU Releases FeynmanPAQS: A Graphical Interface Program for Photonic Analog Quantum Computing

A Shanghai Jiao Tong University research team has announced the world’s first software for photonic analog quantum computing and simulation. “Feynman Photonic Analog Quantum Simulation” (FeynmanPAQS) is named after renown quantum physicist Richard P. Feynman.

by Synced 2018-10-10 1

AI China Conference

Huawei Leaps into AI; Announces Powerful Chips and ML Framework

The company made a series of AI-related announcements today at the Huawei Connect 2018 Conference in Shanghai, introducing two AI chips and a machine learning framework. Huawei’s AI push is expected to intensify its battle with domestic rivals Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu in the AI market.

by Synced 2018-10-09 0

AI

AI Benchmark on the Wall, Who’s the Fairest of Them All?

The computational power of smartphones and tablets has skyrocketed to the point where they approach the level of desktop computers on the market not long ago. Although it’s easy for mobile devices to run all the standard smartphone apps, today’s artificial intelligence algorithms can be too compute-heavy for even high-end devices to handle.

by Synced 2018-10-09 0

AI Research

Get a Grip! Berkeley Targets Dexterous Manipulation Using Deep RL

UC Berkeley researchers have published a paper demonstrating how Deep Reinforcement Learning can be used to control dexterous robot hands for complicated tasks. Learning Complex Dexterous Manipulation with Deep Reinforcement Learning and Demonstrations proposes a low-cost and high-efficiency control method that uses demonstration and simulation techniques to accelerate the learning process.

by Synced 2018-10-06 0

AI China

Shanghai Spawns a New Generation of AI Startups

A typical JD motorcycle deliveryman in Shanghai delivers 100 packages per day, racing along the city’s waterfront, navigating tiny alleyways and darting between the city’s skyscrapers. That may seem impressive but JD is still striving to improve motorcycle delivery efficiency with new tech — much of it AI-powered.

by Synced 2018-10-05 0

AI China

IPO Season: China’s First Wave of AI Companies Are Going Public

Yi Wang will never forget Thursday, September 27, 2018. That’s the day that Liulishuo, the AI-driven English tutoring startup he founded in 2012, went public on the Nasdaq (NYSE:LAIX), raising US$72 million under an estimated market cap of US$600 million.

by Synced 2018-10-04 0

AI Conference

GraphConnect 2018: Linking AI and Graph DB

Leading Graph Database company Neo4j organized GraphConnect 2018 on September 20 in New York City to introduce their latest products and developments — foremost among them the new Neo4j 3.5 Graph Platform.

by Synced 2018-10-03 0

AI Research United States

Fastai 1.0 for PyTorch: “There’s Nothing Better Out There”

In conjunction with yesterday’s release of open source AI software framework PyTorch 1.0, leading deep learning course developer Fast.ai has announced its first open source library for deep learning — fastai v1.

by Synced 2018-10-03 2

AI China Emerging Company

Adaptive Learning Startup Squirrel AI Raises CN¥1B

This August, thousands of Chinese middle school students participated in a two-day “AI teacher vs. Human teacher” competition. Students were separated into two groups: one received math tutoring from experienced teachers, the other from an intelligent learning system.

by Synced 2018-10-02 0

AI Conference

Facebook Says Developers Will Love PyTorch 1.0

At the first-ever PyTorch Developer Conference today in San Francisco, Facebook released a preview of PyTorch 1.0, its open source AI software framework designed to trailblaze “a seamless path from AI research to production.”

by Synced 2018-10-02 0

AI Research

BigGAN: A New State of the Art in Image Synthesis

“Best GAN samples ever yet? Very impressive ICLR submission! BigGAN improves Inception Scores by >100.” The above Tweet is from renowned Google DeepMind research scientist Oriol Vinyals. It was retweeted last week by Google Brain researcher and “Father of Generative Adversarial Networks” Ian Goodfellow, and picked up momentum and praise from AI researchers on social media.

by Synced 2018-10-01 0

AI AI Bi-Weekly

AI Biweekly September W 4 – W 5

10 Things You Must Know From September W 4 – W 5

by Synced 2018-09-29 3

AI

Visual Search Is Revolutionizing E-Commerce

Visual search is an important new business tool that is changing the way people interact with E-commerce and social media platforms. Instead of entering a text query, visual search engines enable users to identify and locate items via photos snapped with their smartphone cameras.

by Synced 2018-09-28 0

AI

Facebook Open-Sources SKIP Programming Language

Skip is an experimental research language project that Facebook developed over the last three years: “Skip tracks side effects to provide caching with reactive invalidation, ergonomic and safe parallelism, and efficient garbage collection. Skip is statically typed and ahead-of-time compiled using LLVM to produce highly optimized executables.”

by Synced 2018-09-27 0

AI Research Self Driving

Fast Facts on Arm’s New Autonomous Driving Chip

Semiconductor giant Arm today unveiled the Cortex-A76AE, a microarchitecture CPU designed for use in autonomous vehicles. The UK-based Softbank subsidiary hailed the new chip as the world’s first autonomous-class processor with integrated safety features.

by Synced 2018-09-27 0

AI

OpenAI Scholars Initiative Promotes Diversity in AI

Nadja Rhodes is enamoured with artificial intelligence. A Seattle-based Microsoft software developer unpracticed in AI techniques such as deep learning, Rhodes had applied to a number of tech company sponsored AI residency initiatives, but to no avail. And so she was thrilled to be accepted by OpenAI Scholars.

by Synced 2018-09-26 2

AI Self Driving

Tencent Licensed for Self-Driving Vehicle Testing on Beijing Roads

The Beijing Traffic Management Bureau yesterday issued new licenses for self-driving vehicle testing in the Chinese capital, with tech giant Tencent receiving authorization to operate an autonomous vehicle on designated roads for the first time.

by Synced 2018-09-26 0

AI Research

Georgia Tech & Google Brain’s GAN Lab Visualizes Model Training in Browsers

Georgia Tech and Google Brain researchers have introduced the new interactive tool GAN Lab, which visually presents the training process of complex machine learning model Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Even machine learning newbs can now experiment with GAN models using only a common web browser.

by Synced 2018-09-25 0

AI Research

Petuum & CMU Introduce Open-Source Text Generation Toolkit Texar

Petuum and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers have introduced Texar, an open-source general purpose text generation toolkit that can help boost R&D in fast model prototyping and experimentation.

by Synced 2018-09-24 0

AI Research

Microsoft Neural TTS Makes Machines Speak like Humans

Microsoft today announced a new neural text-to-speech synthesis system that makes computer voices nearly indistinguishable from human recordings. Neural TTS currently available for preview through Azure Cognitive Services Speech Services.

by Synced 2018-09-22 2

AI

A Language for Sneakers? GOAT Applies AI in Product Management

Sneakerheads of the world love online reseller GOAT. Sellers submit formatted photos of their sneakers and the company finds a buyer. The GOAT website has some 400,000 listings. Rare models like Air Yeezy Blink, Air Jordan 3 Retro Solefly and Pharrell x Chanel x NMD Human Race Trail can fetch tens of thousands of dollars.

by Synced 2018-09-21 1

AI Global News US & Canada

Nvidia Opens AI Research Lab In Toronto

Chip giant Nvidia today announced the opening of its new AI research centre in Toronto.

Nvidia Director of AI Sanja Fidler will lead the AI Research Lab. The University of Toronto Assistant Professor previously worked at the Toyota Technological Institute in Chicago as a research assistant professor.

by Synced 2018-09-21 3

AI Research

Tencent TStarBots Defeat StarCraft II’s Powerful Builtin AI in the Full Game

Deep Reinforcement Learning has shown impressive performance in a wide range of applications, including video games. StarCraft II, one of the most challenging Real Time Strategy (RTS) games, has however remained unsolved. Until now.

by Synced 2018-09-20 0

AI Research

Durham University’s GANomaly Improves Anomaly Detection

In a new paper Durham University researchers introduce a anomaly detection model, GANomaly, comprising a conditional generative adversarial network that “jointly learns the generation of high-dimensional image space and the inference of latent space.” The process enables the model to perform anomaly detection tasks even in sample-poor environments.

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