Synced Tradition and Machine Learning Series | Part 2: Optimization Basics
This is the second in a special Synced series of introductory articles on traditionally theoretical fields of studies and their impact on modern-day machine learning.
AI Technology & Industry Review
This is the second in a special Synced series of introductory articles on traditionally theoretical fields of studies and their impact on modern-day machine learning.
This paper is the first to systematically study the security of Multi-Sensor Fusion (MSF) based localization in high-autonomy Autonomous Vehicles (AVs). Researchers design FusionRipper, a novel and general attack that opportunistically captures and exploits take-over vulnerabilities.
Researchers from Drexel University, Northeastern University and IT University Copenhagen explore how humans interact with AI in such contexts, with a focus on computer games.
Synced invited Dr. Linchao Zhu, a lecturer at the ReLER lab, University of Technology Sydney whose works focus on video representation learning, to share his thoughts on the paper Text-to-Image Generation Grounded by Fine-Grained User Attention.
According to reports on January 20, South Korea’s Gwangju is adopting integrated AI technology to help with city governance.
On January 18, in efforts to understand and manage extreme weather events, McGill University announced a new interdisciplinary project to combine deep learning (DL) with social network analysis (SNA).
A Nepalese machine learning (ML) researcher has introduced a handy browser extension that lets users directly access videos related to research papers published on the popular preprint platform arXiv.
Kuzi is using satellite data, soil sensor data, ground meteorological observation and machine learning technology trained on predict the locusts’ breeding, appearance and migration routes.
Researchers from the University of Texas, Austin have proposed a novel framework called Training-Free Neural Architecture Search (TE-NAS) for “training-free” neural architecture search.
A paper in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research goes a step further, warning that it could become fundamentally impossible to control a superintelligent AI.
Turing Award winner Geoffrey Everest Hinton spoke about his recent research, his quest to understand learning in the brain and why he sees unsupervised learning as the future of AI.
Synced has invited Mr. Brian Tse to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.
Synced has invited Mr. Tatsuya Nagata, the COO of Navier Inc., to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.
Synced has invited Prof. Johan A.K. Suykens to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.
This is the fourth Synced year-end compilation of “Artificial Intelligence Failures.” Our aim is not to shame nor downplay AI research, but to look at where and how it has gone awry with the hope that we can create better AI systems in the future.
As part of our year-end series, Synced has compiled a global list of proposals, rules and regulatory frameworks for AI introduced in 2020.
As part of our year-end series, Synced highlights 10 AI-powered efforts that contributed to the fight against COVID-19 in 2020.
Synced has invited Mr. Sheldon Fernandez to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.
Synced has invited Prof. Jürgen Schmidhube to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.
Synced has compiled a list of nonfiction books that notable AI researchers and engineers have recommended on Twitter over the last 12 months.
As part of our year-end series, Synced highlights 10 artificial intelligence papers that garnered extraordinary attention and accolades in 2020.
Market research company IDC and Inspur jointly released the 2020-2021 China Artificial Intelligence Computing Power Development Report.
The municipal government of Japan’s Kobe city has spent more than JYP 40 million to develop an AI employment support system “SODAMO” jointly with a career support company.
Yoshua Bengio and Anirudh Goyal from Mila - Quebec AI Institute delve into human and non-human animal intelligence and how it can inform deep learning.
Looking back at the evolution of deep learning frameworks we can clearly see a tightly coupled relationship between deep learning frameworks and deep learning algorithms.
“Depix” is a new AI-powered tool that can easily undo pixelization to enable recovery of the information therein.
The Ukrinian Cabinet of Ministers has approved the Concept for the Development of Artificial Intelligence and instructed the Ministry of Digital Transformation to develop a plan for its implementation within three months.
OpenAI’s groundbreaking GPT-3 language model paper, a no-regret learning dynamics study from Politecnico di Milano & Carnegie Mellon University, and a UC Berkeley work on data summarization have been named the NeurIPS 2020 Best Paper Award winners.
AAAI 2021 received a record-high 9034 submissions and over 7911 papers went to review and a total of 1692 papers made it, for an acceptance rate of 21 percent
Airbus has developed a new Smart Librarian (SL) FCOM QA system comprising a dialogue engine, retriever (search engine), and QA module.
As part of the Thai government’s digital transformation roadmap for 2020-22, the Digital Government Development Agency (DGA) has launched the first national AI centre.
A Princeton student designed a GAN framework for Chinese landscape painting generation that is so effective most humans can’t distinguish its works from the real thing.
Researchers from the City University of Hong Kong and SenseTime propose a lightweight matting objective decomposition network (MODNet) that can smoothly process real-time human matting from a single input image with diverse and dynamic backgrounds.
The Nemetschek Innovation Foundation will provide approximately EURO 50 million over the next ten years to fund an AI research and teaching institute at TUM.
China is accelerating the preparation of the “14th Five-Year” digital economy plan, which will be the country’s first designated plan for the digital economy.
Recent IEEE study released the results of a survey of Chief Information Officers and Chief Technology Officers in the U.S., U.K., China, India and Brazil.
Asia Pacific (APAC)’s adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning in financial markets is accelerating.
South Korea will introduce AI to nationwide high school education in 2021
Saudi Arabia announced a multibillion-dollar investment strategy in artificial intelligence (AI) and data by 2030 to diversify its oil-based economy.
Beijing Zhiyuan AI Research Institute released the 2020 Beijing AI Development Report, showing that Beijing ranks first nationally in 17 areas, including for having the highest numbers of companies and scholars.