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by Synced 2017-12-04 Number of comments0

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What You Need to Know About NIPS 2017

The Conference on Neural Information Processing (NIPS) kicks off today in Long Beach, California and runs to December 9.

by Synced 2017-12-01 Number of comments0

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Zhou Yu is Teaching Robots How Not to Be Ignored

Zhou Yu, the 29-year-old assistant professor at UC Davis is teaching robots to understand the nuances of non-verbal communication and use them to their advantage.

by Synced 2017-12-01 2

AI China Conference Industry

Using AI to Secure Ride-Sharing Platforms

Fallout from the Uber data breach scandal is being felt across the industry. In an effort to beef up cybersecurity, researchers are exploring AI solutions.

by Synced 2017-11-29 Number of comments0

Research

Neural Translation of Musical Style

The author wants to run a musical experiment with Neural Networks to achieve the goal of making the neural translation of musical style.

by Synced 2017-11-28 Number of comments0

AI China Industry

China’s Smart Speaker Market Heats Up

The lack of Mandarin interface in Echo and Google Home has prompted a number of Chinese companies to get in the game with their own smart speakers.

by Synced 2017-11-27 Number of comments0

AI Bi-Weekly Research

AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Nov (Pt 2)

Microsoft Reveals Azure IoT Edge; Google Launches Chatbot Analytics Platform Chatbase; Tesla Unveils An Electric Rival to Semi Trucks

by Synced 2017-11-24 Number of comments0

Research

Automated Inference on Criminality using Face Images

In this paper, the authors build four classifiers which are the logistic regression, KNN, SVM, CNN by supervised machine learning to discriminate between criminals and non-criminals.

by Synced 2017-11-23 Number of comments0

AI Industry United States

Bringing Robotics from the Lab to the Real World

At last week’s Collaborative Robotics and Advanced Vision Conference in San Jose, John Petry from Cognex stressed the need for robotic technology companies to provide maintainable deep learning-based solutions for their manufacturing customers.

by Synced 2017-11-23 Number of comments0

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Nature’s Machine Intelligence Journal to Launch in Jan 2019

Nature will publish the first issue of Machine Intelligence in January 2019. The new journal will cover the “best research from across the field of artificial intelligence,” ranging from machine learning, robotics and human-machine interactions to ethical, legal and societal dimensions of AI.

by Synced 2017-11-22 Number of comments0

Event Industry United States

MIT-CHIEF 2017 Conference Recap

The conference was held November 17-19th, and attracted research scientists, industry influencers, venture investors, and entrepreneurs from the Greater Boston Area.

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AI Research

Makers Put Their Specialized AI Chips on the Table

To boost CNN performance, industry leaders and startups alike are now racing to develop specialized AI chips.

by Synced 2017-11-20 1

AI China Industry

Computer Vision Startup CloudWalk Collects US$375 Million

Heavy investments in computer vision will energize the IoT revolution that is rapidly building smart city infrastructures all across Asia.

by Synced 2017-11-18 1

AI Emerging Company United States

Vinci Sets the Tone for Smart Headphones

This week, Synced sat down with Wu, who is now Inspero’s CTO, and tried out the Vinci, the standalone intelligent headphones.

by Synced 2017-11-17 Number of comments0

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Rolling Out the Tesla Semi

Electric, automated, and stormtrooper-shiny: the Tesla Semi debuted yesterday in Hawthorne, California.

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China Industry

Will iFlytek Voice Input’s 98% Accuracy Kill the Keyboard?

Human-machine interaction is rapidly evolving. Today, 12% of Chinese users opt for voice input over typing. What does this signal for tomorrow?

by Synced 2017-11-15 Number of comments0

Research

Toward Multi-Modal Understanding and Multi-Modal Intelligence

Recently there are three papers on ArXiv that drew the author’s attention, all have focus on learning multi-model information.

by Synced 2017-11-14 Number of comments0

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iPhone X Mask Dupe Raises AI Security Concerns

Machines have already beaten humans in image recognition accuracy, but they are also susceptible to errors. Last Friday, Vietnamese company Bkav announced they had outsmarted the AI-powered image recognition machine that unlocks the new iPhone X.

by Synced 2017-11-14 Number of comments0

Global News Industry

Poker & AI: The Rise of Machines Against Humans

AI applications in the poker industry? This infograh shows you the AI capable of playing poker at (very) high levels.

by Synced 2017-11-13 Number of comments0

AI Bi-Weekly Industry

AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Nov (Pt 1)

AT&T’s New Acumos AI Platform Hosted by Linux Foundation; Waymo is in Arizona Testing Self-Driving Cars; DJI Unveils Drone Management Solution FlightHub; Amazon’s Fourth Research Hub in Germany Targets Visual AI R&D

by Synced 2017-11-11 2

AI China Industry

11.11: Alibaba’s AI-Powered Shopping Extravaganza

With so many sales in so little time, it’s no surprise that artificial intelligence is playing a growing role in the largest online shopping event in human history.

by Synced 2017-11-11 Number of comments0

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E-Commerce Battle Just Got a Lot More AI

Singles Day has just passed, and on this day China’s two biggest online shopping platforms battled over astounding sales numbers. The 24-hour frenzy shopping period generates almost half of Amazon’s yearly revenue.

by Synced 2017-11-10 1

AI Emerging Company Industry United States

Vicarious.ai is Teaching Robots to See The World Like Humans

Dileep George and D. Scott Phoenix are confident they’re on the right path to achieve AGI with unique solutions combining machine learning and the human brain itself.

by Synced 2017-11-10 1

AI China Industry

DuerOS Project Prometheus & Baidu’s Big Data Pledge to Conversational AI

Datasets such as ImageNet have proved essential for image recognition. Chinese search giant Baidu now wants to bring the same power to conversational AI, the tech behind our rapidly-expanding voice-based human-machine interfaces.

by Synced 2017-11-09 Number of comments0

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Berlin: Breaking the Wall Between Human and Artificial Intelligence

Much like that epoch-making event 28 years ago, AI technology is breaking down limitations and opening up new opportunities.

by Synced 2017-11-08 Number of comments0

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JDD-2017 Global Data Challenge Now Accepting Challengers! Prizes Up to USD 45,000!

On November 6, JD Finance will launch the first JDD-2017 Global Data Challenge. Yes, we want you on board!

by Synced 2017-11-08 Number of comments0

Research

Artificial Intelligence Glossary

This glossary currently includes a total of 743 specialized AI terms based on machine learning concepts and terminologies.

by Synced 2017-11-07 Number of comments0

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Video Understanding is a New Vista for AI

The success AI has achieved in image recognition has prompted tech companies to explore the new field of video understanding, in which machines are trained to answer questions like “Who is in this video?” or “What are the cats in the video doing?”

by Synced 2017-11-07 Number of comments0

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David Wagner on Adversarial Machine Learning at ACM CCS’17

UC Berkley Professor David Wagner delivered a keynote speech to open the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2017. The top tier computer security and privacy conference was held in Dallas, USA.

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China Industry

AI Chip Explosion: Cambricon’s Billion-Device Ambition

On November 6 in Beijing, China’s rising semiconductor unicorn Cambricon released new state-of-art AI processors.

by Synced 2017-11-04 Number of comments0

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Andrew Ng Says Enough Papers, Let’s Build AI Now!

Andrew Ng gave a keynote speech at the AI Frontiers Conference, encouraging AI talents to start making a difference whether with major industry players or through their own startups

by Synced 2017-11-03 Number of comments0

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Canada’s Big Push on AI

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently joined the Canadian machine learning community to celebrate the country’s burgeoning AI ecosystem at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management’s Creative Destruction Lab (CDL).

by Synced 2017-11-02 Number of comments0

Research

Bayesian LSTMs in Medicine

This paper gives a demonstration of using Bayesian LSTMs for classification of medical time series, which can improve the accuracy compared with standard LSTMs.

by Synced 2017-11-01 Number of comments0

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Vector Adds Brains

Toronto’s Vector Institute announced today that it is adding 10 new faculty members, effectively doubling its size.

by Synced 2017-10-31

China Industry

China’s AI Superstar Face++ Finishes Series C Funding Round With a Staggering US$460 Million

China’s computer vision company Megvii, a.k.a Face++ (旷视科技) has closed their Series C funding round at a staggering US$460 million.

by Synced 2017-10-31 Number of comments0

AI Global News

Inside the Voice Inside Your Smart Speaker

Google and Amazon unveiled mini-sized smart speakers Google Home Mini Chalk and Amazon Echo Dot 2, both priced at less than US$50. Virtual assistants can plug into your environment with a natural human-machine voice interface that used to exist only science fiction.

by Synced 2017-10-30 Number of comments0

AI Bi-Weekly

AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Oct (Pt 2)

Google’s AlphaGo Zero Masters the Game of Go with No Human Knowledge; Apple and GE Partner to Bring Predix Industrial Apps to iPhone and iPad; MIT Media Lab’s AI Can Now Write Horror Stories!

by Synced 2017-10-27 2

AI Research

Hinton Proposes CapsNet

Today, the “Godfather of Deep Learning” Dr. Geoffrey Hinton published the paper Dynamic Routing Between Capsules on Arxiv. This is being hailed as a revolutionary work that could totally revamp computer vision research.

by Synced 2017-10-26 5

AI Industry United States

Baidu’s Apollo Seeks to Democratize US Autonomous Driving

Synced recently attended a Baidu meet-up at the company’s newly-opened Silicon Valley offices, where details were released on the latest iteration of the Apollo platform, Apollo 1.5.

by Synced 2017-10-25 Number of comments0

Industry United States

Delphi Acquires MIT Spin-off nuTonomy for US$450 Million

Delphi Automotive (Delphi), one of the world’s largest automotive parts manufacturers, has announced the acquisition of MIT spin-off self-driving car company nuTonomy for US$450 million.

by Synced 2017-10-24 3

Research

How Random Forest Algorithm Works in Machine Learning

The author introduces the algorithm with a real-life story and then provides applications in four different fields to help beginners learn and know more about this algorithm.