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Emotional Intelligence is the Future of Artificial Intelligence

If thinking can be understood as the step-by-step process that it is, then we can build artificial intelligences to have the potential to be as conscious as we are

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Community Research

2017 Trends — What You Want & What Comes

A glance at the state of the art research shows that neural networks would still serve us, and artificial general intelligence is not yet in sight.

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Awareness and Consciousness of Game Character in Digital Game World － Youichiro Miyake

Youichiro Miyake presented an initial concept of creating artificial awareness in game AI system.

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Industry

Baidu leads China’s Construction of the Upcoming National Engineering Laboratory of Deep Learning Technology and Application

Baidu will now take lead in building China’s National Engineering Laboratory of Deep Learning Technology and Application

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Industry Research

Beyond Seq2Seq with Augmented RNNs by Edward Grefenstette, Google, Inc.

This talk summarizes the limitations of RNN (including LSTM, GRU), from both empirical and computational hierarchy mechanism perspectives.

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Industry

Deep Learning in Industry with NVIDIA/Fine-grained Emotional Profiling

This talk is focused on the future potential of deep learning with NVIDIA Deep Learning SDK and GPU hardware families.

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Research

Face Synthesis from Facial Identity Features

This paper presents a method for synthesizing a frontal, neutral-expression image of a person’s face given an input facial photograph.

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Industry

AI in News Reporting: Machines are Now Writing Dialogues, Q&As, and News Articles

Chief Scientist Lei Li of Toutiao discusses how to apply machine learning to natural language understanding and producing machine-written news articles

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SRH: Imaging Technique Combined with Deep Learning Enables Quick Diagnosis of Brain Tumor during Surgery

The neurosurgeons and pathologists at Michigan Medicine recently combined a powerful imaging technique with deep learning algorithm for automatic tumor diagnosis during brain surgery.

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Deep Patient: Improving Prognosis with Electronic Health Records by Deep Learning

This paper applies deep learning to a large-scale EHR dataset to extract robust patient descriptors that can be used to predict future patient diseases.

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Yann Le Cun: Predicting under Uncertainty, the Next Frontier in AI

professor Yann LeCun discussed about “predicting under uncertainty: the next frontier in AI” during the lecture at the University of Edinburgh

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David Silver, Google DeepMind: Deep Reinforcement Learning

There are three ways to combine DL and RL, based on three different principles: value-based, policy-based, and model-based approaches with planning.

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Andrej Karpathy CS294 Lecture Review: Visualizing and Understanding Deep Neural Networks

This review will go over some of the current methods that are used to visualize and understand deep neural networks.

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Industry Research

Monte Carlo Localization: Efficient Position Estimation for Mobile Robots

Sample-based Monte Carlo Localization is notable for its accuracy, efficiency, and ease of use in global localization and position tracking.

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Industry

NVIDIA End-to-End Self-Driving

In a tech talk at University of Toronto, NVIDIA shared some updates regarding their research of self-driving car and End-to-End Learning

by Synced 2017-02-20 1

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A Song from Artificial Intelligence

A University of Toronto Ph.D. student named Hang Chu recently published his project, a song completely composed and vocalized by Artificial Intelligence.

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Combining Collaborative Filtering with Personal Agents for Better Recommendations

The 2017 award will be given to the most influential paper from the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 1999 in Orlando,USA.

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Label-Free Supervision of Neural Networks with Physics and Domain Knowledge

The recipient of this year’s Outstanding Paper Award utilizes prior domain knowledge to constrain output space to a specific learning structure rather than a simple mapping from input to output

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Industry

Interview with Andrew Ng：Many Leading AI Technologies were First Deployed in China

Synced had a special interview with Ng to learn more about the progress of AI research at Baidu, why and how he became an AI expert.

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AI Research Study Guide

iPOP: The First Study on Personalized Medicine by Personal Big Data

This study is the first to perform extensive personal iPOP of an individual through healthy and diseased states. This paper was published in Cell, 2012.

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Research Talk Review

Richard Sutton: The Future of Artificial Intelligence Belongs to Search and Learning

The future of AI belongs to scalable methods, search and learning; as presented by Richard Sutton in seminars at University of Toronto

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AI Industry

An Exclusive Interview with Maluuba: The World’s Fastest Growing AI Startup

computer science graduate student named Kaheer Suleman founded a company called Maluuba, using an intelligent program he invented as the product.

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Research Talk Review

Geoffrey Hinton: Using Fast Weights to Store Temporary Memories

Machine learning Advances and Applications Seminar address how to use fast weights to effectively store temporary memories, at University of Toronto

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Community Conference Research

Google Brain’s Lukasz Kaiser: How Deep Learning Quietly revolutionized NLP

Lukasz Kaiser, Senior Research Scientist at Google Brain, gives a presentation about the developments in Natural Language Processing techniques at 2017’s AI Frontier Conference.

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AI Community Industry

Top 10 AI News of 2016

2016 was full of ups, downs, and surprises: for the world and for AI.

by Synced 2017-01-04 1

Research Study Guide

Super Gamer: Deep Q-network

Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning The theory of reinforcement learning provides a normative account, deeply rooted in psychological andContinue Reading

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Community Research

Interview with Dr.Richard Sutton: we might have strong AI algorithms by 2030

Professor Richard Sutton is considered to be one of the founding fathers of modern computational reinforcement learning. He made several significant contributions to the field, including temporal difference learning, policy gradient methods, and the Dyna architecture.

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Research Talk Review

A Practical Guide to Neural Machine Translation

  This talk focuses on engineer techniques for large-scale NMT systems. It helps us to understand how GPU works andContinue Reading

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Community Conference Industry Research

Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence conference held by Creative Destruction Lab in Toronto

Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Richard Sutton and Ruslan Salakhutdinov Panel Summary at 2016 I was at the 2016 “Machine LearningContinue Reading

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Interview with John Markoff : A prophet in the age of AI

Born in Oakland, California on October 29, 1949, John Markoff grew up in Palo Alto, California and graduated from WhitmanContinue Reading