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
Tag: AI
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
C2 Montreal – Master Class with Yoshua Bengio: Know The Basics
Professor Bengio delivered the “Fundamentals of AI” masterclass to a cross-industry audience at C2 event in Montreal, Canada.
AlphaGo: The Ultimate Go Master
For more than 2,500 years, humans have been playing and studying the incredibly complex game of Go. In a matter of months, AI learned how to do it better.
Google I/O 2017: Integrating Everything with AI
At the 10th Google I/O, held May 17-19 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, Google took a different approach from unveiling exciting new products, by putting its focus on the convergence of existing products, aimed at providing a better user experience.
Nvidia’s Volta: A Game Changer for AI?
At this year’s GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia CEO and Founder Jensen Huang unveiled a new generation GPU architecture called Volta.
The Humans Behind Artificial Intelligence
AI companies require accurate data for specialized applications, and seemingly little things such as labelling and tagging demand accuracy. At present, only humans are up for the task.
Artificial Intelligence is the New Electricity — Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng – former Baidu Chief Scientist, Coursera co-founder, and Stanford Adjunct Professor – gave a talk at the Stanford MSx Future Forum.
The Time to Marry AI May Come Soon
Dr. Eisaku Maeda, the director of NTT Communication Science Laboratories, was recently interviewed by The Huffington Post, sharing his opinions on AI.
Interview with Tencent AI Lab- Four Core Research Fields:Computer Vision, Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
Synced recently conducted a special interview with the Director of Tencent AI Lab Tong Zhang, to discuss about the strategic position and research focuses in Tencent.
Alibaba Cloud Launches Machine Learning Platform “PAI 2.0”, Reducing AI’s Technical Threshold and Development Cost
On March 29, 2017, during the 2017 YunQi Computing Conference held in Shenzhen, Alibaba Cloud’s Chief Science Officer Dr Jingren Zhou officially launched the updated version of its machine learning platform “PAI 2.0”, intending to drastically reduce the technical threshold and development cost for AI.
Can AI Fool Humans? In the Spirit of April (Fools): This is No Joke
In the spirit of April (Fools), let us see how far down is AI along the path of “fooling” humans.
A Brief Introduction to Humanistic Intelligence: The Symbiotic Future of Machine and Human
“Why did I go to such extremes? Because I realized that the future of computing was as much about communications between people wearing computers as it was about preforming colossal calculations.” — Steve Mann
Moving Toward Understanding Consciousness
Noë proposes his ideas towards current neuroscience research using reductionism approach is far from understanding the philosophy behind our consciousness.
Alibaba’s New Study on Artificial Intelligence: Achieving Multi-arms Cooperative Gaming in “StarCraft”
Researchers from Alibaba and UCL have recently published a new study, claiming that multiple game units controlled by artificial intelligence are now able to develop tactics similar to human players using unsupervised learning.
Rework Machine Learning Summit in SF: AI is Teaching Robots to Chat
At Rework Machine Learning Summit at San Francisco, speakers from tech giants, as AI research labs and AI-related startups, are invited to present their latest study in machine learning.
Synced Exclusive Interview with “Fine Art” Team Lead: “Stronger Models though Brand New Reinforcement Learning Techniques”
Synced had the opportunity for an exclusive interview with Tecent AI Lab’s senior manager, team lead for Fine Art, Liu Yongsheng.
Canada’s Future Bets on AI
Canada unveiled a budget of $125 million to launch Pan-Canadian Al Strategy, a new independent institute for AI, Vector Institute.
London: Deep Learning in Healthcare
At RE•WORK Summits, speakers are invited to present advances from the world’s leading innovators, showcase the opportunities in emerging health care industry
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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