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by Synced 2017-09-19 4

Global News Industry United States

What AI Talent Are Companies Hungry For?

As more companies bet on AI, computer scientists with AI expertise are coming into demand on the job market.

by Synced 2017-09-18 1

AI AI Bi-Weekly Industry

AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Sept (Pt 1)

09/05 — Google Updates Its Street View Cameras with AI and Machine Learning Google just upgraded its street view camera for the firstContinue Reading

by Synced 2017-09-16 4

Global News

Wearables: Translate Ideas into Products

Notable wearables today include Fitbit wristbands, the Apple watch, Google Glass, and Playstation VR — all of which have gained great market shares. As the data-collecting portal to the IoT, wearables hold many future possibilities.

by Synced 2017-09-15 Number of comments0

AI Research

English-Japanese Neural Machine Translation with Encoder-Decoder-Reconstructor

This paper is the implementation of ‘encoder-decoder reconstructor framework’ for neural machine translation for the English-Japanese translation task.

by Synced 2017-09-14 1

AI Global News United States

Is AI Advancing Too Quickly or Too Slowly?

Last month, it was widely reported that two Facebook chatbots had been shut down after communicating with each other in an unrecognizable language.

by Synced 2017-09-13 Number of comments0

Community Event United States

Call to Participate! Alibaba’s Ant Financial Hosts First Hackathon in San Francisco

This October, Ant Financial and Synced are co-hosting the ATEC Developer Creativity Challenge for developers to showcase creativity using Alipay Mini-program.

by Synced 2017-09-12 Number of comments0

AI Industry United States

Apple Embraces AI with iPhone X

The latest iPhone struts its AI strength with three new features: Face ID, for facial recognition; Animoji, an emoji animator; and a new camera exposure mode called portrait lighting.

by Synced 2017-09-12 Number of comments0

Chinese AI Talent in US Emerging Company United States

AutoX Wants to Put a Self-driving Car in Your Driveway in Two Years

Jianxiong Xiao (肖健雄), founder of startup AutoX, developed his first self-driving car in six months with seven cameras costing a total of just US$500.

by Synced 2017-09-11 1

Industry Research

NASA is Using Intel’s Deep Learning to Find Better Landing Sites on the Moon

Recently NASA announced that their Frontier Development Laboratory (FDL) would cooperate with Intel to apply deep learning for space exploration.

by Synced 2017-09-10 13

Research

Language Model: A Survey of the State-of-the-Art Technology

In this paper, we present a survey on language models, which mainly consists of count-based and continuous-space language models.

by Synced 2017-09-09 1

Research

A Brief Review of FlowNet

Recently, CNNs have been successfully used in estimating optical flow. Compared with traditional methods, these methods achieved a large improvement in quality. Here, we will give a brief review on the following papers.

by Synced 2017-09-08 2

AI Globalization Global News Industry United States

Pittsburgh’s Pivot to Artificial Intelligence

Synced meets the people transforming a former steel town into a metropolis powered by artificial intelligence and robotics.

by Synced 2017-09-07 Number of comments0

Research

InfiniteBoosting – A Bagging-Boosting Hybrid Algorithm

InfiniteBoosting overcomes the disadvantages of both bagging and boosting, thus slightly improves the performance. Its most important aspect is its adaptability.

by Synced 2017-09-06 1

AI AI Bi-Weekly Industry

AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from August (Pt 2)

Google, Apple, Walmart, Intel, Baidu, Alibaba, Siemens, Salesforce, IBM: August digest from industry giants

by Synced 2017-09-05 Number of comments0

Research

RACECAR: A Powerful Platform for Robotics Research and Teaching

RACECAR is a Powerful Platform for Robotics Research and Teaching. It is one of the greatest university courses in this field.

by Synced 2017-09-04 Number of comments0

AI China Industry United States

From Amazon to Alibaba: The Quest of Computer Vision Scientist Xiaofeng Ren

“I am tempted by Alibaba’s large pool of business scenarios and huge user base,” says Xiaofeng Ren.

by Synced 2017-09-02 2

AI China Industry

Huawei Announces Kirin 970: AI In Your Phone

China’s biggest domestic mobile phone maker, Huawei, is now powering its phones with artificial intelligence (AI) engines. The Chinese techContinue Reading

by Synced 2017-09-01 Number of comments0

Global News Research

System-Aware Distributed Optimization for Machine Learning

The goal of this report is to inspire our readers in the field of distributed machine learning and invite more to join our discussion to exchange knowledge and contribute to our intellectual community.

by Synced 2017-08-31 1

Research

Technology Requirements for Deep and Machine Learning

The blog author, Rob Farber, has been working on machine learning and related fields as a staff scientist, and participating in relating projects since the 1980s.

by Synced 2017-08-30 1

AI Emerging Company Industry

GoodAI – Sending AI to School

Marek Rosa’s dream is to create a machine that improves itself recursively to achieve an intelligence level humans cannot imagine, allowing it to tackle problems of any scale.

by Synced 2017-08-29 Number of comments0

Research

How Deep Learning May Transform Location-Aware Computing

This article reviews two recent attempts on introducing deep learning models into location-aware computing, effectively reducing expert involvement.

by Synced 2017-08-28 Number of comments0

AI Community

Experts Warn Robots Are Growing in Consciousness and Should Be Classified as an “Invasive Species”

Some experts from different fields stated their concerns that with the rapid rise of artificial intelligence in the next few decades, intelligent robots would take over the human world and extinguish the entire human culture.

by Synced 2017-08-27 Number of comments0

Research

Learning to Guide Task and Motion Planning Using Score-Space Representation

This paper proposes a learning algorithm to speed up search in Task and Motion Planning problems (TAMP), and to solve three challenges in order to improve planning efficiency.

by Synced 2017-08-26 Number of comments0

Research

A Self-Driving Wheelchair

Autonomous wheelchair developed by researchers at MIT and in Singapore promises improved independence for the disabled Abstract After building self-drivingContinue Reading

by Synced 2017-08-25 1

Research

Memory, Attention, Sequences

In the article “Memory, attention, sequences”, the author predicts that future work on neural networks will emphasize understanding complex spatio-temporal data from the real world, which is highly contextual and noisy.

by Synced 2017-08-24 Number of comments0

Conference Research

How to Control Those Extra Robotic Limbs You’ve Always Wanted

Recently, at an IEEE Conference, MIT researchers proposed a new control method which provides easier and more stable feedback that does not necessarily require existing limbs to control the artificial limbs.

by Synced 2017-08-23 1

Research

ShuffleNet: An Extremely Efficient Convolutional Neural Network for Mobile Devices

The ShuffleNet utilizes pointwise group convolution and channel shuffle to reduce computation cost while maintaining accuracy. It manages to obtain lower top-1 error than the MobileNet system on ImageNet classification, and achieves ~13x actual speedup over AlexNet while maintaining comparable accuracy.

by Synced 2017-08-22 Number of comments0

Emerging Company Industry Research

A $30 AR Headset?

Amber Garage’s HoloKit is quickly positioning itself as a market stimulator. Just as Google Cardboard increased access and interest in virtual reality, so might HoloKit for augmented reality.

by Synced 2017-08-21 Number of comments0

Conference Research

CVPR2017 Honorable Mention Paper – Annotating Object Instances with a Polygon-RNN

This paper proposes not only a method as a useful tool but also a new concept for modeling complex annotation as a simple polygon.

by Synced 2017-08-20 1

Research

Deep Learning in Real Time – Inference Acceleration and Continuous Training

In this report, we will touch on some of the recent technologies, trends and studies on deep neural network inference acceleration and continuous training in the context of production systems.

by Synced 2017-08-18 Number of comments0

Research

Accelerating Convolutional Neural Networks on Raspberry Pi

This method, with considerable computation time and controllable model size, is particularly simple and very useful for implementations on mobile devices such as phones, drones, etc.

by Synced 2017-08-17 Number of comments0

Community Event Global Research

IJCAI 2017: Tencent X Synced Young Scholar Tech Night and Reception in Melbourne

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2017 will be held in Melbourne, Australia from August 19 to August 25, summoning top researchers from around the world.

by Synced 2017-08-17 2

Global News Research

History and Frontier of the Neural Machine Translation

Compared to SMT, NMT can train multiple features jointly and does not need prior domain knowledge, enabling zero-shot translation. In addition to higher BLEU score and better sentence structure, NMT can also help reduce morphology errors, syntax errors, and word order errors of SMT.

by Synced 2017-08-16 2

Conference Research

Customer Lifetime Value Prediction Using Embeddings

This paper, presented at the RE-WORK Deep Learning in Retail & Advertising Summit in London, provides a detailed explanation on related work, system architecture, and model improvement with embeddings enabled feature learning.

by Synced 2017-08-15 2

China Research

30 Years of Devotion to Natural Language Processing Based on Concepts

We interviewed Mr. Qiang Dong, chief scientist of Beijing YuZhi Language Understanding Technology Co. Ltd. and learned more about their YuZhi NLU Platform that conducts its unique semantic analysis based on concepts rather than words.

by Synced 2017-08-11 Number of comments0

Community EU & UK Global News

UNICEF Uses AI to Help Underprivileged Children

Synced sat down with Christopher Fabian, the co-founder of UNICEF’s for-profit Innovation Fund, in Geneva, where he took us through the Innovation Fund’s innovative mandate.

by Synced 2017-08-08 1

AI Research

Andrew Ng Unveils Deeplearning.ai – New DL Courses on Coursera

Andrew Ng, one of the top minds in deep learning, loves teaching. And so, the Stanford University professor decided toContinue Reading

by Synced 2017-08-07 Number of comments0

Conference Industry

CVPR 2017: The Fusion of Deep Learning and Computer Vision, What’s Next?

CVPR 2017 conference covered topics in: Machine Learning, Object Recognition & Scene Understanding – Computer Vision & Language, 3D Vision, Human Analyzing, Low- & Mid- Level Vision, Image Motion & Tracking: Video Analysis, Computational Photography, Applications.

by Synced 2017-08-03 5

Research

Deep Learning-Based Food Calorie Estimation Method in Dietary Assessment

Although food packaging comes with nutrition labels, it’s still not convenient for people to reference. Thus, scientists started to use machine learning algorithms in computer vision to help people determine the caloric value in the food they eat.

by Synced 2017-08-02 2

China Emerging Company Industry

Chinese Computer Vision Startup Turns Heads With ‘SensePose’

In contrast to traditional approaches that use infrared or structured light along with the aforementioned hardware, SensePose needs only ambient light and a regular RGB camera lens.