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.
Tag: Artificial Intelligence
Drift with Devil: Security of Multi-Sensor Fusion based Localization in High-Level Autonomous Driving under GPS Spoofing
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.
CHI 2021 | ‘AI as Play’ Challenges the Productivity-Based Human-AI Interaction Paradigm
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.
Google Creates New SOTA Text-Image Generation Framework
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.
South Korea’s Gwangju City Applies AI to City Governance
According to reports on January 20, South Korea’s Gwangju is adopting integrated AI technology to help with city governance.
McGill Researchers Use AI to Manage Extreme Weather Events
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).
‘Papers-With-Video’ Browser Extension Adds Video Access to arXiv
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.
Kenyan-Developed APP Utilizes ML to Predicate the Migration and Breeding of Locusts
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.
ICLR 2021 | UT Austin Training-Free Framework Performs High-Quality NAS on ImageNet in Four GPU Hours
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.
Will Humans Be Able to Control Superintelligent AI? New Study Says ‘No’
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.
Geoffrey Hinton Discusses His Latest Research and the Future of 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.
2020 in Review With Brian Tse
Synced has invited Mr. Brian Tse to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.
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2020 in Review With Tatsuya Nagata
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.
2020 in Review With Johan A.K. Suykens
Synced has invited Prof. Johan A.K. Suykens to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.
2020 in Review: 10 AI Failures
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.
2020 in Review: 8 New AI Regulatory Proposals from Governments
As part of our year-end series, Synced has compiled a global list of proposals, rules and regulatory frameworks for AI introduced in 2020.
2020 in Review: 10 AI-Powered Tools Tackling COVID-19
As part of our year-end series, Synced highlights 10 AI-powered efforts that contributed to the fight against COVID-19 in 2020.
2020 in Review With Sheldon Fernandez
Synced has invited Mr. Sheldon Fernandez to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.
2020 in Review With Jürgen Schmidhuber
Synced has invited Prof. Jürgen Schmidhube to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.
2020 in Review: 10 Nonfiction Books AI Experts Enjoyed Reading
Synced has compiled a list of nonfiction books that notable AI researchers and engineers have recommended on Twitter over the last 12 months.
2020 in Review: 10 AI Papers That Made an Impact
As part of our year-end series, Synced highlights 10 artificial intelligence papers that garnered extraordinary attention and accolades in 2020.
Report by IDC and Inspur Shows China’s AI Infrastructure Reaches USD 3.93 Billion in 2020, with YoY Increase of 26.8 Percent
Market research company IDC and Inspur jointly released the 2020-2021 China Artificial Intelligence Computing Power Development Report.
Japan’s Kobe city utilizes AI to aid unemployment effected by COVID-19
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.
Mila Proposes New Inductive Biases to Boost Deep Learning
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.
A Brief History of Deep Learning Frameworks
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 AI Recovers Pixelized Passwords, Earns 10K GitHub Stars
“Depix” is a new AI-powered tool that can easily undo pixelization to enable recovery of the information therein.
Ukraine Approves Concept for the Development of AI and Allocates UAH 14.39 Million to the Plan
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.
Open AI’s GPT-3 Paper Shares NeurIPS 2020 Best Paper Award With Works from Politecnico di Milano, CMU and UC Berkeley
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 Announces Paper Totals – ‘Amazingly High Technical Level’
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 AI Introduces Natural Language QA System for Flight Crews
Airbus has developed a new Smart Librarian (SL) FCOM QA system comprising a dialogue engine, retriever (search engine), and QA module.
Government Agency DGA Debuts the Thailand’s First National AI Centre
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.
Princeton Student’s AI Model Generates Chinese Landscape Paintings That Fool Human Evaluators
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.
Do We Really Need Green Screens for High-Quality Real-Time Human Matting?
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.
TUM Receives EURO 50 Million to Form AI Research Institute in the Construction Industry with Nemetschek Innovation Foundation
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 Drafts 14th Five-Year Digital Economy Plan; AI Industry Scale in 1H 2020 Reach USD 11.7 Billion
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.
IEEE: AI, ML, 5G and IoT will be the Most Important Technologies in 2021
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.
APAC Financial Institutions Embrace AI/ML
Asia Pacific (APAC)’s adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning in financial markets is accelerating.
South Korea to Introduce AI to High School Education in 2021; to Train 5,000 Incumbent Teachers by 2025
South Korea will introduce AI to nationwide high school education in 2021
Saudi Arabia to Invest USD 20 Billion in AI and Data by 2030 to Diversify Economy
Saudi Arabia announced a multibillion-dollar investment strategy in artificial intelligence (AI) and data by 2030 to diversify its oil-based economy.
2020 Beijing AI Development Report: 1,500 companies, 4,000 scholars and 40,000 industry practitioners
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.