AI Technology & Industry Review
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.
Compute Scoreboard:
AlexNet 1
AlphaZero 300,000
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.
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.
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.
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.
This glossary currently includes a total of 743 specialized AI terms based on machine learning concepts and terminologies.
On November 6 in Beijing, China’s rising semiconductor unicorn Cambricon released new state-of-art AI processors.
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!
Beijing-based Horizon Robotics’ A-plus series funding round is expected to raise US$100 million by year’s end.
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
09/05 — Google Updates Its Street View Cameras with AI and Machine Learning Google just upgraded its street view camera for the firstContinue Reading
Last month, it was widely reported that two Facebook chatbots had been shut down after communicating with each other in an unrecognizable language.
Synced meets the people transforming a former steel town into a metropolis powered by artificial intelligence and robotics.
Google, Apple, Walmart, Intel, Baidu, Alibaba, Siemens, Salesforce, IBM: August digest from industry giants
China’s biggest domestic mobile phone maker, Huawei, is now powering its phones with artificial intelligence (AI) engines. The Chinese techContinue Reading
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hosted annually in the United States, the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference received 2,620 submissions, accepted 783 papers, attracted 127 sponsors with $859,000 in sponsorship and close to 5,000 attendees.
We explore top-notch Swiss AI facilities: starting with deep learning and neural network research at IDSIA in Lugano, to interdisciplinary research at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and University of Basel, and ending with robotics innovations at ETH in Zurich and University of Zurich.
From LSTM deep learning technique to self-learning humanoid robot, Jürgen Schmidhuber’s research teams have won awards in various machine learning competitions, including medical image recognition.
“To pretend science is morally neutral, and that you can develop anything and have clean hands because it is someone else using it to kill people is extremely naive, and scientists should know that.” – UC Berkeley’s Dr. Stuart Russell
Gary Marcus the Professor of Psychology at New York University, CEO and Founder of Geometric Intelligence, speaks at GMIS 2017.
How can we communicate with “super intelligent” robots? The answer lies in conversational systems.
Overview of the ways to make a machine smart enough to pass the standardized math and science test.
Canada is determined to build AI superclusters in Toronto-Waterloo, Montréal, and Edmonton.
“AI for Good Global Summit,” held June 7-9 in Geneva, Switzerland.
“Scientists need passion to do research, and that is my passion.” – Yuandong Tian, Facebook Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Tim Sweeney predicts that video game companies will ultimately utilize advanced AI techniques when the VR/AR games (or so-called “The Metaverse” games) become popular, due to advancements of cameras and displays
RE•WORK is one of the top global Machine Intelligence industry conference/summit organizers. The aim of Rework: Combining entrepreneurship, technology & science to re-work the future.
If Artificial Intelligence (AI) were running the US, it’s unlikely it would abandon the Paris Climate Agreement.
Professor Bengio delivered the “Fundamentals of AI” masterclass to a cross-industry audience at C2 event in Montreal, Canada.
A practical way to make an autonomous vehicle is not by programming a car to drive in any environment, but by showing the car how to drive and make the car learn by itself. NVIDIA created a system of this kind, named PilotNet.
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.
Thanks to AlphaGo, the term “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) came under the spotlight (again). However, Jean-Christophe Baillie doesn’t agree that AlphaGo is AI, for the reason that it’s not able to get us to full AI – an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).