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AWS Announces Five Industrial Machine Learning Services
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc., an Amazon.com company, announced Amazon Monitron, Amazon Lookout for Equipment, the AWS Panorama Appliance, the AWS Panorama SDK, and Amazon Lookout for Vision.
USC & Amazon ‘SLADE’ Self-Training Framework Uses Unlabelled Data to Improve Information Retrieval
The SeLf-trAining framework for Distance mEtric learning (SLADE) framework combines self-supervised learning and distance metric learning methods to improve information retrieval performance.
Amazon Alexa AI’s ‘Language Model Is All You Need’ Explores NLU as QA
Amazon Alexa AI paper asks whether NLU problems could be mapped to question-answering (QA) problems using transfer learning.
Amazon’s BERT Optimal Subset: 7.9x Faster & 6.3x Smaller Than BERT
Amazon extracts an optimal subset of architectural parameters for BERT architecture by applying recent breakthroughs in algorithms for neural architecture search.
Amazon Backed Self-Driving Car Company Aurora to Test Fleet in Texas
According to the Verge, Amazon funded self-driving company Aurora will test a small vehicle fleet at the highways near Dallas-Fort Worth area in the next few weeks.
Amazon Introduces ResNeSt: Strong, Split-Attention Networks
The latest ResNet improvement comes courtesy researchers from Amazon and UC Davis, who unveiled their Split-Attention Networks, ResNeSt.
Amazon ML Director Begins DeepMind Professorship at Cambridge
The University of Cambridge has appointed Professor Neil Lawrence as its first DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning, a new position supported by Google-owned, UK-based AI research company DeepMind.
Opportunities and Challenges in the Japanese Smart Home Market
ccording to a Fuji Research Laboratory report, the Japanese smart home market is expected to top JP¥4.2 trillion (US$38 billion) in 2025, up 36.3 percent from 2017. The market is being driven by smart devices including smartphones, which already account for more than half the market and are continuing to grow due their ability to conveniently connect IoT devices.
Big Tech Accelerates Autonomous Driving
While there is nothing wrong with viewing autonomous driving as an emerging sector in the car manufacturing industry, big tech companies are also playing a central role, and have been making huge investments in automotive technologies.
Steady Growth and Integration Push Amazon Alexa to the Top
According to a CIRP study, Amazon Alexa has a commanding 70 percent market share in the US, with rival Google Assistant taking 24 percent. A Market Research Future study predicts the voice assistant market will reach US$7.8 billion by 2023, a compound annual growth rate of almost 40 percent.
Huge Investment In Self-Driving Companies: These Startups Are Noteworthy
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Everything at CES 2019 Is Here!
Subscribe to Synced Global AI Weekly – CES Day One: AI Is Everywhere – CES 2019: What we’ve seen, and are still seeing,Continue Reading
AI Biweekly: Smarter Responses from Amazon and Google; Innovations in Robotics
In the past two weeks, news related to the field of human-computer interaction and voice interaction has been focused on technology giants Amazon and Google. Amazon upgraded its Fire TV Cube and the Amazon Music system, which enhances the diversity of voice interactions.
AWS Announces AI Chips & 13 New ML Features; Consolidating Its Cloud Dominance
Amazon Web Services has unveiled two chips and 13 machine learning capabilities and services at its AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. The releases reflect Amazon’s determination to attract more developers to AWS by broadening its range of tools and services.
China Gets a Piece of PAI: Why Baidu Joining the US-Led AI Consortium Is a Big Deal
Adding Baidu’s voice will broaden PAI’s understanding of global AI technologies and their ethical implications. Chinese companies are pushing forward with a wide adoption of AI technologies across industries from healthcare to transportation and beyond.
Millions Are Proposing to Alexa
Virtual personal assistants have become an integral part of our everyday lives. So much so that some people want to take the relationship with their digital friend to the next level. A new Business Insider article reveals that over one million people asked Amazon’s Alexa to marry them in 2017.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from August W2 – W3
Blockchain hardware, software, and services company Bitmain confirms it will build a data center in Rockdale, Texas and invest US$500 million in the United States over the next seven years. Bitmain will launch a local training program and hire more than 400 employees.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from June W2 – W3
Salesforce announces a deeper data sharing partnership with Google. Consumer insights from Salesforce’s Marketing Cloud and Google Analytics 360 will be merged into one dashboard for either platform. Marketing Cloud data can be used to create a more customized web experience.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from May W3 – May W4
Fujitsu and Japan Publishing Co. (Nissha) together introduce SeleBoo, an AI solution the leverages information on 3.5 million books and some 3,000 bookstores nationwide to automatically stock books based on characteristics of each bookstore…
ML Community Pledges to Boycott Nature’s New Paywalled Journal
Thousands in the machine learning community say they will boycott Nature’s paywalled Machine Intelligence Journal, which is set for a January 2019 release.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Apr W 4 – Apr W 5
Google introduces starter kits designed to help people learn and experiment with AI solutions.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Apr W 2 – Apr W 3
IBM announces a four-year program in collaboration with Calgary-based Natural Resources Solutions Center to help oil and gas companies with sustainability and efficiency.
Tracking the Transforming AI Chip Market
Embedded AI can transform a tabletop speaker into a personal assistant; give a robot brains and dexterity; and turn a smartphone into a smart camera, music player, or game console. Traditional processors, however, lack the computational power to support many of these intelligent features.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Feb W 4 – Mar W 1
Capillary Technologies is a cloud-based SaaS company serving over 300 large enterprises and 500 small or medium businesses in over 30 countries. It improves retailers’ engagement with customers through analytics.
Tech Giants Talk Conversational AI at RE•WORK
At the RE•WORK AI Assistant Summit San Francisco yesterday, research scientists and engineers from Amazon, Apple and Google spoke on how they are addressing challenges and evolving their conversational AI systems.
Amazon Go vs Alibaba Tao Cafe: Staffless Shop Showdown
Amazon and Alibaba’s brick-and-mortar-but-no-staff shops offer very different user experiences. To bring you first-hand feedback, Synced visited them.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from January (Pt 2)
NVIDIA Announces Delivery Target For Self Driving Processor Xavier; Facebook Plans to Shut Down Its Personal Assistant “M” on January 19th; Amazon Alexa Is Integrating With Windows 10; A US Media Team Plans to Launch Vital Intelligence Data Live
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.
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
Amazon is Building its Grocery Empire
Most categories have been taken over by e-commerce yet the category of fresh groceries hasn’t been disrupted by online.