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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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AI Doubling Its Compute Every 3.5 Months
Compute Scoreboard:
AlexNet 1
AlphaZero 300,000
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.
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.
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.
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.
Artificial Intelligence Glossary
This glossary currently includes a total of 743 specialized AI terms based on machine learning concepts and terminologies.
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.
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!
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.
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
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
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.
Pittsburgh’s Pivot to Artificial Intelligence
Synced meets the people transforming a former steel town into a metropolis powered by artificial intelligence and robotics.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from August (Pt 2)
Google, Apple, Walmart, Intel, Baidu, Alibaba, Siemens, Salesforce, IBM: August digest from industry giants
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
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.
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.
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.
UNICEF Uses AI to Help Underprivileged Children
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.
One Night at CVPR 2017 : Exploring IJCV and the Asia Research Force
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.
Canvassing Switzerland’s AI Landscape
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.
Jürgen Schmidhuber: True Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything
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.
Lethal Autonomous Weapons & Info-Wars: A Scientist’s Warning
“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 Road to Artificial General Intelligence
Gary Marcus the Professor of Psychology at New York University, CEO and Founder of Geometric Intelligence, speaks at GMIS 2017.
Conversational Systems: A General Review
How can we communicate with “super intelligent” robots? The answer lies in conversational systems.
A Survey of Question Answering for Math and Science Problem
Overview of the ways to make a machine smart enough to pass the standardized math and science test.
Building AI Superclusters in Canada
Canada is determined to build AI superclusters in Toronto-Waterloo, Montréal, and Edmonton.
by Synced
2017-06-13
Scientists and Stakeholders in Geneva for Good Artificial Intelligence
“AI for Good Global Summit,” held June 7-9 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Ready, Set, Go! Meet Yuandong Tian: AI Maverick
“Scientists need passion to do research, and that is my passion.” – Yuandong Tian, Facebook Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Epic’s Tim Sweeney: Deep Learning A.I. Will Open New Frontiers in Game Design
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