artificial intelligence

by Synced 2018-12-08 0

Tencent’s New Medical AI Lab Targets Parkinson’s

Chinese tech giant Tencent’s first attempt in AI healthcare was the Miying platform, which has been a point of pride for CEO Huateng Ma since its 2017 launch. Supported by AI-powered medical imaging technologies, Miying assists doctors with the screening of esophageal cancer, pulmonary nodules, cervical cancer, etc. The platform has been well received in the AI and medical communities, with a fast-expanding market in Chinese top-tier AAA hospitals.

by Synced 2018-12-07 0

AI Technology

Meet Deep Graph Library, a Python Package For Graph Neural Networks

The MXNet team and the Amazon Web Services AI lab recently teamed up with New York University / NYU Shanghai to announce Deep Graph Library (DGL), a Python package that provides easy implementations of GNNs research. Some fast takeaways on DGL:

by Synced 2018-12-05 0

AI China

Chinese Publisher Introduces AI Textbooks For Preschoolers

Photos of an artificial intelligence textbook for Chinese preschoolers have gone viral. Artificial Intelligence Experiment Materials is a 33-volume textbook series aimed at Chinese students from kindergarten to high school that was published this July by Henan People’s Publishing House.

by Synced 2018-12-05 0

AI Canada Conference

Vancouver Named NeurIPS 2019 & 2020 Host as Visa Issues Continue to Plague the AI Conference

The 2018 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) is in full swing in Montréal. According to a booklet distributed to attendees, both NeurIPS 2019 and 2020 will take place in Vancouver, making Canada the host country three years in a row. NIPS/NeurIPS has already been held in Montreal and Vancouver a combined 13 times since the world’s leading AI conference left its Denver base in 2001.

by Synced 2018-12-04 0

AI Technology

AI Brush: New GAN Tool Paints Worlds

The digital painting tool GANpaint has gone viral on social media. The product of a team of high-profile researchers from MIT, IBM, Google, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, GAPpaint allows anyone — even those with little knowledge of digital painting or photoshop — to “paint” incredibly complex and detailed photorealistic scenes.

by Synced 2018-12-03 1

AI

Google AI Music Project Magenta Drops Beats Like Humans

Magenta Studio is a Google Brain project “exploring the role of machine learning as a tool in the creative process.” The Google Brain team created the open-source music-making package using machine learning models.

by Synced 2018-11-28 0

AI Self Driving

The DeepMap Approach: “Your Data, Your HD Map”

In a near future, when self-driving cars have replaced human drivers, it’s believed that high-definition (HD) maps can play a similarly useful role, as “the memory of robot drivers”.

by Synced 2018-11-25 0

AI AI Weekly

Global Companies Are Making AI Breakthroughs

Synced Global AI Weekly November 25th

by Synced 2018-11-21 0

AI

OpenCV 4.0 Release Ends 3.5 Year Wait

Intel’s open-source programming function computer vision library OpenCV has released the first stable version in its 4.0 line. The community has waited for more than 3.5 years for the update.

by Synced 2018-11-20 0

AI China

Shanghai Tests Graph Recurrent Neural Networks for Traffic Prediction

A new study from Shanghai’s Transportation Information Center (STIC) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University uses Graph Recurrent Neural Networks (GRNN) for high-accuracy traffic prediction and city traffic control.

by Synced 2018-11-15 0

AI Technology

Global Minima Solution for Neural Networks?

New research from Carnegie Mellon University, Peking University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows that global minima of deep neural networks can been achieved via gradient descent under certain conditions. The paper Gradient Descent Finds Global Minima of Deep Neural Networks was published November 12 on arXiv.

by Synced 2018-11-14 0

AI

Andrew Ng Offers “AI For Everyone”

One of the top minds in machine learning, Andrew Ng is having an increasingly profound impact on AI education. Ng’s machine learning course at Stanford University remains the most popular on Coursera, the world-leading online education platform he co-founded in 2012.

by Synced 2018-10-15 0

AI AI Bi-Weekly

AI Biweekly: Voice Interaction and NLP Business Applications; Logistics’ Last Mile Challenge

10 Things You Must Know From October W 1 – W 2

by Synced 2018-10-15 0

AI United States

MIT Is Opening a $1Bn AI College

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced they will invest US$1 billion into a new college for artificial intelligence. The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing will “constitute both a global center for computing research and education, and an intellectual foundry for powerful new AI tools.”

by Synced 2018-10-12 1

AI United States

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.

by Synced 2018-10-03 0

AI News Technology United States

Fastai 1.0 for PyTorch: “There’s Nothing Better Out There”

In conjunction with yesterday’s release of open source AI software framework PyTorch 1.0, leading deep learning course developer Fast.ai has announced its first open source library for deep learning — fastai v1.

by Synced 2018-09-14 0

Technology

MIT & Google Propose AutoML for Model Compression

Researchers from MIT, Google, and Xian Jiaotong University recently published a paper proposing AutoML for Model Compression (AMC), which leverages reinforcement learning to shorten model compression processing time and improve results.

by Synced 2018-09-05 0

AI Feature United States

OpenAI’s Long Pursuit of Dota 2 Mastery

A hearty round of applause arose from the crowd packing the Vancouver Rogers Centre on August 22 when a team of unassuming scientists wearing “OpenAI” T-shirts climbed up on stage.

by Synced 2018-09-04 0

AI Conference

NIPS Tickets Sell Out in Less Than 12 Minutes

Registration opened at 8:00 a.m. PDT today for December’s NIPS 2018 (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) in Montreal. The early birds were the fortunate ones this year — as tickets for the main conference were all snapped up less than a dozen minutes later.

by Synced 2018-08-29 0

AI

Google’s AI-Powered Navlekha Boosts Indian Language Online Content

At the Google For India 2018 conference in New Delhi yesterday Google launched its AI platform Navlekha, which enables publishers to make offline Indian language content fully editable and streamlines the online publishing process.

by Synced 2018-08-03 0

AI Germany Technology

Remaking Human Skin: Neurobotics at Gordon Cheng’s ICS Lab in Germany

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) had lured Cheng from a Japanese research institute. At TUM he founded the Institute of Cognitive Systems (ICS). With eight employees in a central office on Karlstraße 45, Cheng set to work on his arduous task: recreating the complexities of human skin and wiring it all to a brain.

by Synced 2018-06-08 0

AI News United States

The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Designed for AI Computation

The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee today introduced the world’s fastest supercomputer Summit, whose computing power reaches 200 petaflops or 200 million billion calculations per second.

by Synced 2018-05-17 0

AI United States

AI Doubling Its Compute Every 3.5 Months

Compute Scoreboard:
AlexNet 1
AlphaZero 300,000

by Synced 2018-05-03 0

AI China Emerging Company

UBTECH Robotics Gets US$820 Million Funding; Becomes the World’s Most Valuable AI Startup

Chinese AI and humanoid robotic company UBTECH Robotics today announced a staggering US$820 million in Series C funding. With its new estimated value of US$5 billion, Shenzhen City-based UBTECH becomes the world’s most valuable AI startup.

by Synced 2018-01-12 0

AI Feature

Uncanny Artificial Humans

One of the most attention-grabbing displays at CES 2018 is “Joel,” a body inside a vacuum-sealed plastic bag, curled up in the fetal position and peacefully waiting for a consciousness.

by Synced 2018-01-03 0

AI Industry United States

Tech Giants Are Gobbling Up AI Startups

It’s no surprise that tech companies are eager to stay abreast of AI developments. When they’re not luring AI talents with huge compensation packages, they’re on the lookout for AI startups suitable for acquisition.

by Synced 2017-12-18 0

AI AI Globalization

2017 in Review: 10 Leading AI Hubs

According to a study by Wuzhen Institute, there are 2,905 artificial intelligence companies in the United States, 709 in China, 366 in Britain, 233 in India, 228 in Canada, 173 in Israel, and 160 in Germany.

by Synced 2017-11-08 0

Technology

Artificial Intelligence Glossary

This glossary currently includes a total of 743 specialized AI terms based on machine learning concepts and terminologies.

by Synced 2017-11-06 2

China Industry

AI Chip Explosion: Cambricon’s Billion-Device Ambition

On November 6 in Beijing, China’s rising semiconductor unicorn Cambricon released new state-of-art AI processors.

by Synced 2017-10-30 0

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 2017-10-20 0

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 2017-09-22 0

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 2017-09-18 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 2017-09-14 0

AI Feature 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 2017-09-08 2

AI Globalization Feature 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 2017-09-06 0

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 2017-09-02 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 2017-08-30 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 2017-08-28 0

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 2017-08-23 0

Technology

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.