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by Synced 2017-11-02 Number of comments0

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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 1

Community Global News US & Canada

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.

by Synced 2017-10-23 Number of comments0

AI Global News Research

AlphaGo Zero: Approaching Perfection

Facebook AI Researcher Yuandong Tian says new AlphaGo Zero paper is destined to be a classic.

by Synced 2017-10-22 4

Research

Tree Boosting With XGBoost – Why Does XGBoost Win “Every” Machine Learning Competition?

Synced tech analyst reviews the thesis “Tree Boosting With XGBoost – Why Does XGBoost Win ‘Every’ Machine Learning Competition”, which investigates how XGBoost differs from traditional MART, and XGBoost’s superiority in machine learning competition.

by Synced 2017-10-20 3

China Industry

Money is Chasing Chinese AI Startups

Beijing-based Horizon Robotics’ A-plus series funding round is expected to raise US$100 million by year’s end.

by Synced 2017-10-19 1

Asia Conference Global News

Tokyo: AI and Society Symposium

Synced attended the AI and Society Symposium held October 10-11th in Tokyo, where speakers from industry and academia exchanged ideas for practical applications and possible future developments of AI.

by Synced 2017-10-18 1

AI Chinese AI Talent in US

Meet Voice Pioneer Dr. Mei-Yuh Hwang

Mobvoi hired Dr. Mei-Yuh Hwang as its Vice President of Engineering in 2016. A respected speech recognition researcher and former Principle NLP Scientist Manager at Microsoft, Dr. Hwang is a pioneer in voice recognition and machine translation.

by Synced 2017-10-17 1

AI China Industry

AI Phone Duel: $825 Mate 10 vs $999 iPhone X

This Monday in Munich, China’s largest domestic mobile phone maker Huawei unveiled Mate 10 — billed as the most powerful AI phone in the world.

by Synced 2017-10-16 Number of comments0

AI Bi-Weekly Industry

AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Oct (Pt 1)

Instagram Releases Shoppable Tags Feature in US; Voyage Launches Self-Driving Taxis in San Jose Escorting 4,000 Residents; Deutsche Bank Announces First Artificial Intelligence Implementation Through IBM Watson

by Synced 2017-10-14 4

Industry Research

Under the Hood of a Self-Driving Taxi, a Look at Computation and Other Core Self-Driving Car Systems

The objective of Voyage’s self-driving vehicles is to deliver fully functional autonomous taxis within five years.

by Synced 2017-10-13 1

Event United States

Futuristic & RADIAnt Win ATEC 2017 Developer Challenge

At this year’s ATEC Developer Challenge, Futuristic won Best Creative Idea Award, while RADIAnt won Best Social Value Award.

by Synced 2017-10-12 2

China Industry

Shi is Key to Ma’s NASA

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba announced on September 11 that the respected University of Michigan professor will lead fundamental research on quantum technology at its Seattle lab.

by Synced 2017-10-11 1

Industry

Alibaba Pumps US$15 Billion into Quantum Computing & AI

Alibaba Group announced its new DAMO (Dharma) Academy for fundamental and disruptive technology research.

by Synced 2017-10-10 2

Industry

Petuum Closes $93 Million in Series B Funding Led by SoftBank

PITTSBURGH, PA – October 10, 2017 – Petuum, Inc., a machine learning (ML) infrastructure platform, has closed $93 million in Series B fundingContinue Reading

by Synced 2017-10-09 5

AI Industry

Six Disruptive AI Platforms for Law

An intelligent revolution of the legal industry has begun.

by Synced 2017-10-08 Number of comments0

AI Research

AI Abuzz over CycleGan Face Swapping Video

YouTuber “TJWei” recently uploaded a “Face-off” video on YouTube. The four-minute split-screen clip sees two figures speaking and emoting simultaneously. Both look human, but one is an entity generated in real-time by an AI algorithm.

by Synced 2017-10-07 Number of comments0

Research

Advanced Vision Algorithm Helps Robots Learn to See in 3D

Researchers introduced a new object representation that allows the robots to identify three-dimensional objects with partially obscured geometry.

by Synced 2017-10-05 1

AI Emerging Company Industry

Good AI Lab Energizes Biotech With AI

Silicon Valley-based Good AI lab aims to crowdsource the world’s unused FLOPS in order to provide medical researchers with the computing power they need.

by Synced 2017-10-04 Number of comments0

AI Global News United States

Google AI Assistant Smartest in Human IQ Tests

Clearly, digital voice assistants are wising up — how long until they catch up?

by Synced 2017-10-03 1

AI Global News United States

This Cloud Has a Smart Lining

AI-powered cloud platforms can help businesses benefit from AI. Oracle, the world’s second-largest software company, is prepared to hop on board.

by Synced 2017-10-02 Number of comments0

AI Bi-Weekly Industry

AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Sept (Pt 2)

GE using AI to optimize power grids, Intel pumps US$1 billion into AI startups IBM targets India’s 2.7 billion connected devices for IoT market, NVIDIA GTC China announces partnerships with Alibaba and Huawei for smart cities.

by Synced 2017-10-01 1

AI Research

Deep Direct Regression for Multi-Oriented Scene Text Detection

On the ICDAR2015 Incidental Scene Text benchmark, proposed method achieves F1-measure of 81%.

by Synced 2017-09-30 1

AI China Industry

NVIDIA GTC China: TensorRT 3.0, AI Machine Processor Xavier, and China Partnerships

The annual NVIDIA GTA Conference opened in Beijing on September 26th.

by Synced 2017-09-29 10

AI Community Research

RIP Theano

Before TensorFlow, PyTorch and Caffe; Theano was the major library for deep learning development. However, the library’s development and support will end after the upcoming Theano 1.0 release.

by Synced 2017-09-28 Number of comments0

Community Conference

Andrew Ng Will Give Keynote Speech at AI Frontiers Conference on Nov 3, 4&5

The AI Frontiers Conference will be held in Nov in Santa Clara Convention Center.

by Synced 2017-09-27 3

AI Global News United States

Fake AI vs. Real AI

The AI boom has seen countless companies scrambling to jump on the bandwagon — even if their products have little to do with AI.

by Synced 2017-09-26 1

China Industry

Shenzhen Based RoboSense is the Next DJI for LIDAR

The global market for this versatile, high-precision, long-distance measuring “eye” will reach US$36 billion in 2030.

by Synced 2017-09-25 1

AI Research

A Brief Overview of Attention Mechanism

Attention is simply a vector, often the outputs of dense layer using softmax function.

by Synced 2017-09-24 Number of comments0

AI Research

Machine Teaching A New Paradigm for Building Machine Learning Systems

This paper laid out the position of Machine Teaching, a universally accessible, easy to manage, and fast discipline proposed by Microsoft Research, and articulated the fundamental machine teaching principles.

by Synced 2017-09-23 Number of comments0

AI China Industry

Baidu All in AI: DuerOS and Apollo Open Platforms

The “Baidu AI Developers Conference” (Baidu Create 2017) was held July 5 at the China National Convention Center in Beijing.Continue Reading

by Synced 2017-09-22 Number of comments0

AI Industry United States

Best Time Ever for AI Startups?

While tech giants like Google and Amazon are setting the pace in AI R&D these days, startups can also find success by targeting niche markets

by Synced 2017-09-21 Number of comments0

Research

Adversarial Training Methods For Semi-Supervised Text Classification

In applying the adversarial training, this paper adopts distributed word representation, or word embedding, as the input, rather than the traditional one-hot representation. The reason lies in the fact that the higher dimensionality the input has, the more likely it is to be disturbed by noise.

by Synced 2017-09-20 Number of comments0

AI Research

Bridging Neural Machine Translation and Bilingual Dictionaries

In this paper, the author aims to design a smart way to handle rare/unknown words in the bilingual training data during machine translation.