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Tag: Artificial Intelligence
Saudi Arabia’s National AI Center NCAI Cooperates with Huawei to Develop AI
The National Center for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI) of Saudi Arabia announced a strategic partnership with Huawei on the national AI capability development.
New Report Number Shows AI Patent Applications in China Exceeded 30,000 in 2019
Report showed that China published 28,700 AI scientific papers in 2019, an increase of 12.4 percent over the previous year, and its activity in top international conferences in the field of artificial intelligence And the influence continues to increase.
Shanghai Aims to Develop AI Industry Clusters and Spearheads Measures in Lingang Free-Trade Zones
The Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology and Shanghai Municipal Finance Bureau launched special funds to focus on developing integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, and biomedicine industry clusters.
Preferred Networks’ ChainerRL Joins PyTorch Ecosystem as ‘PFRL’
Japanese AI startup Preferred Networks (PFN) is moving ChainerRL to the PyTorch ecosystem.
UK Researchers Say AI Needs More Animal Sense
The UK researchers identify just how much AI research might benefit from the field of animal cognition.
Google Open-Sources 3D System That Shows How Places Looked in the Past
Google AI recently launched the open-source browser-based toolset “rǝ,” which was created to enable the exploration of city transitions from 1800 to 2000 virtually in a three-dimensional view.
MIT, TU Wien & IST Austria Brain-Based AI Self-Drives With Just a Few Neurons
An international research team is suggesting AI might become even more efficient and reliable if it learns to think more like worms.
MIT Researcher Neil Thompson on Deep Learning’s Insatiable Compute Demands and Possible Solutions
“The Computational Limits of Deep Learning” first author Neil Thompson of MIT says DL’s economic and environmental footprints are growing worrying fast
Shanghai Forges Strategic Partnerships with Alibaba and Ant Group on R&D for Mega-City Applications
The Shanghai Municipal Government signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Alibaba Group and Ant Group, to expedite the development of a new online economy.
ByteDance High-Resolution AMT System Achieves SOTA in Piano Note and Pedal Transcription
ByteDance introduces a high-resolution piano transcription system trained by regressing the precise onset and offset times of piano notes and pedals.
‘Farewell Convolutions’ – ML Community Applauds Anonymous ICLR 2021 Paper That Uses Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
ICLR 2021 paper An Image Is Worth 16×16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale suggests Transformers can outperform top CNNs on CV at scale.
Google, Stanford, & MIT Top NeurIPS 2020 Accepted Papers List
NeurIPS 2020 released its list of accepted papers this week with Google, Stanford, and MIT as the top affiliations.
Breakthrough Neuron-Mimicking Nanoscale Electronic Circuit Element for Neuromorphic AI
Researchers introduce an isolated nanoscale electronic circuit element that can perform nonmonotonic operations and transistorless all-analogue computations.
Jenson Huang’s Kitchen Keynote Outlines NVIDIA’s Vision for the ‘Age of AI’
The GTC kicked off with the release of nine Nvidia keynote video with major announcements in data centers, edge AI, collaboration tools and healthcare.
Google AI Helps Sign Language ‘Take the Floor’ in Video Conferences
Google AI researchers developed a sign language detection model for video conferencing applications that can perform real-time identification of a person signing as an active speaker.
Google AI ‘Looking to Listen’ Tech Enables Speech Enhancement on YouTube Stories in Seconds
Google AI has announced a new audiovisual speech enhancement feature in YouTube Stories (iOS) that enables creators to make better selfie videos by automatically enhancing their voices and reducing noise.
Google Introduces TensorFlow Recommenders, ‘Helping Users Find What They Love’
Google Brain recently introduced a new open-sourced TensorFlow package, TensorFlow Recommenders designed to simplify the process of building, evaluating, and serving sophisticated recommender models.
US and UK to Forge Partnership in Artificial Intelligence
The Trump administration will announce partnership with the UK on research and development of AI, including issues of explainability and fairness.
AI Is Making Robots More Fun
The market size of physical and interactive social and entertainment robots is expected to hit US$3.7 billion by 2023.
Insilico Releases Pandomics, AI-Powered Platform for Novel Therapeutic Target Discovery
A novel end-to-end AI-hypothesis generation engine that seamlessly interprets OMICS and text-based data for the discovery and analysis of novel therapeutic targets.
Alberta Government Gives CA$9 Million in Funding to Edmonton-based AI Institute Amii
The Alberta government announced a CA$9 million grant for Edmonton-based Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii).
Tracking Recent Topics & Trends in 3D Photo Generation
Synced has identified a few significant technical advancements in the 3D photo field that we believe may be of interest to our readers.
Adobe’s DL-Based ‘HDMatt’ Handles Image Details Thinner Than Hair
UIUC, Adobe Research and University of Oregon propose HDMatt, a Deep Learning-based image matting Cross-Patch Context module for high-resolution image inputs.
University of Toronto Spinoff Bridge7 Uses AI to Improve Cancer Treatment
Launched via the U of T Early-Stage Technology program (UTEST), Canadian startup Bridge7 is applying AI to improve the quality, consistency, and efficiency of cancer treatments.
Cheetah Mobile Deploys 8,000 Shopping Mall Robots Boosting Offline Retail
Cheetah Mobile has successfully deployed 8,000 AiM Robots (AiM: Attract, interact and Mindset) in 962 shopping malls across 33cities in China.
Baidu World 2020 Conference Showcases AI for Autonomous Driving and Virtual Assistant
Chinese tech giant Baidu hosted Baidu World 2020 conference under the theme of “Intelligence of Everything”, unveiling new flagship products and AI upgrades.
Baidu Launches Smart Earbuds “XiaoduPods” and Announces DuerOS Upgrades
Chinese tech giant Baidu unveiled the latest version of conversational AI system DuerOS 6.0 and launched smart earbuds “XiaoduPods”, which fulfills more user needs including elderly care and smart hotel.
New DeepMind Approach ‘Bootstraps’ Self-Supervised Learning of Image Representations
From an augmented view of an image, the researchers trained the online network to predict the target network representation of the same image under a different augmented view.
Czech Tech Does the Monster Mash: Animating 3D Models in Seconds
Monster Mash, a novel AI-powered 3D modelling and animation tool, aims to make these arduous 3D animation processes a whole lot easier.
Facebook AI Enables Automatic Closed Captions for Facebook Live
Facebook AI researchers and engineers just made live video content more accessible by enabling automatic closed captions for Facebook Live and Workplace Live.
Human Feedback Improves OpenAI Model Summarizations
OpenAI sets out to advance methods for training large-scale language models on objectives that more closely capture human preferences.
Ex-Uber AI Chief Scientist Zoubin Ghahramani Joins Google Brain Leadership Team
Former Uber Chief Scientist and VP for AI Zoubin Ghahramani has joined Google Research as part of the Google Brain team leadership.
A Closer Look at the Generalization Gap in Large Batch Training of Neural Networks
This research addresses a well-known phenomenon regarding large batch sizes during training and the generalization gap.
EU and Canada Ministerial Meeting Reveals New AI Schemes for Global COVID-19 Recovery
The EU and Canada are collaborating to explore how to explicitly leverage artificial intelligence to help the international community respond to, and recover from, COVID-19.
Argo AI Model Jointly Plots Vehicle Pose and Shape From LiDAR Data
Researchers have introduced a novel network architecture for jointly estimating the shape and pose of vehicles even from partial LiDAR observations.
Insilico Medicine announces the launch of AI-powered COVIDomic to support COVID-19 research worldwide
Insilico Medicine announced the launch of a new system for COVID-19 basic and clinical research.
OpenAI ‘GPT-f’ Delivers SOTA Performance in Automated Mathematical Theorem Proving
OpenAI researchers introduce GPT-f, an automated prover and proof assistant for the Metamath formalization language.
TinySpeech: Novel Attention Condensers Enable Deep Recognition Networks on Edge Devices
Novel attention condensers designed to enable the building of low-footprint, highly-efficient deep neural networks for on-device speech recognition on the edge.
New Multitask Benchmark Suggests Even the Best Language Models Don’t Have a Clue What They’re Doing
Researchers introduce a test covering topics such as elementary mathematics, designed to measure language models’ multitask accuracy.