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OpenAI Releases Full GPT-2; Baidu Q3 Revenues Rise; EMNLP Announces 2019 Best Papers
Synced Global AI Weekly November 10th
Tencent-backed Video App Kuaishou Is Turning Chinese Country Folk Into Hollywood Directors
Thanks to social video app Kuaishou and its plug-and-play tools, even rural Chinese with cheap smartphones are quickly and easily producing short videos featuring Hollywood-style special effects.
Chinese Video Streaming Giant Introduces Anime Facial ID Dataset
In a bid to combine anime and cartoon culture with machine learning, a research team from China’s leading video streaming service iQIYI has introduced a novel large unconstrained cartoon dataset they call “iCartoonFace.”
ACL 2019 Announces Best Papers; Nature Covers Tianjic Chip; Baidu Releases ERNIE 2.0
Synced Global AI Weekly August 4th
Baidu’s ERNIE 2.0 Beats BERT and XLNet on NLP Benchmarks
Today, the research division of the Chinese search giant released their updated ERNIE 2.0, a pretrained language understanding model with significant improvements.
A New Paradigm for Production in the AI Era
Artificial intelligence is having a revolutionary effect on industrial production. In the following article, Baidu Ventures Partner and Founder of Comet Labs Saman Farid shares his thoughts on recent changes and future trends in Machine learning-driven production philosophies and technologies.
Baidu PaddlePaddle DL Framework & Huawei Kirin SoC: A Formidable Partnership
Baidu’s homegrown deep learning framework PaddlePaddle will empower Huawei’s Kirin smartphone chips, the company announced at the Baidu Create 2019 AI Developer Conference that kicked off today in Beijing.
Five Powerful Robots You Shouldn’t Miss
Synced Global AI Weekly May 26th
AI Fools’ Day: Tech Giants’ Top Pranks
Today is April Fool’s Day, and despite Microsoft’s efforts to ban such pranks, many tech companies could not resist joining in the centuries-old spoofing tradition. However, given the already incredible achievements of cutting-edge AI technologies, some of today’s hoaxes actually look pretty convincing.
Baidu’s ERNIE Tops Google’s BERT in Chinese NLP Tasks
Baidu has released ERNIE (Enhanced Representation through kNowledge IntEgration), a new knowledge integration language representation model which outperforms Google’s state-of-the-art BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) in Chinese language tasks.
The Tech Inside a Baidu Engineer’s AI-Powered Cat Shelter
Beijing winters can be devastating on feral cats, with studies suggesting only about 40 percent make it through the long stretch of cold and harsh weather. A Baidu AI engineer who goes by the alias “Wan’xi” (晚兮) set out to make a difference for vulnerable neighbourhood kitties, and the result is an AI-powered smart shelter system.
Baidu Unveils Major Apollo Intelligent Driving Ecosystem Advancements at CES 2019
At CES 2019 in Las Vegas today Chinese tech giant Baidu introduced Apollo Enterprise, a new suite of customizable autonomous driving and Internet of Vehicles (IoV) solutions for mass production vehicles. The company also released Apollo 3.5, the latest and most sophisticated iteration of its open autonomous driving platform, which now supports complex urban and suburban driving environments.
MLPerf Announces First Results; Microsoft & Facebook Get On Board
The team behind MLPerf has announced the machine learning benchmark’s first set of results. MLPerf is a broad machine learning benchmark designed to measure the best performance of each participant with its own resources on a specific task.
Baidu & FAW Hongqi Unveil China’s First L4 Autonomous Passenger Cars
Baidu CEO Robin Li today gave the world a peek at China’s first Level 4 autonomous driving passenger cars, co-developed by Baidu and carmaker FAW Hongqi. Li introduced the vehicles at the 2018 Baidu World Conference in Beijing. The cars will enter mass production by the end of 2019, and their road debuts will be in Beijing and FAW Hongqi’s hometown of Changchun.
Baidu Announces Autonomous Taxi & Bus Fleet for Hunan
Baidu today announced plans for a comprehensive self-driving taxi and bus service in Changsha, the capital of southern Hunan province and birthplace of Mao Zedong. Baidu has signed a partnership agreement with the Changsha Municipal People’s Government and Hunan Xiangjiang New Area Development Group that aims to reinvent the local commute.
Baidu Announces Breakthrough in Simultaneous Translation
Today, we are excited to announce STACL (Simultaneous Translation with Anticipation and Controllable Latency), the first simultaneous machine translation system with anticipation capabilities and controllable latency.
China Gets a Piece of PAI: Why Baidu Joining the US-Led AI Consortium Is a Big Deal
Adding Baidu’s voice will broaden PAI’s understanding of global AI technologies and their ethical implications. Chinese companies are pushing forward with a wide adoption of AI technologies across industries from healthcare to transportation and beyond.
Baidu President Ya-Qin Zhang Talks AI Security
As Chinese Internet giant Baidu has expanded from search to mobile apps, cloud services, and emerging business sectors like autonomous driving and voice assistants, it has correspondingly beefed up its research efforts, particularly in AI, to keep pace with growing security threats.
Former Baidu Executive and AI Master Qi Lu Joins Y Combinator China As CEO
Three months after Chinese Internet giant Baidu announced that COO Qi Lu will step down in July due to “personal and family reasons”, Lu today unveiled his new adventure: Chief Executive Officer of Y Combinator China.
AI Drives Baidu Q2 Profits, but Stock Falls on Google Chinese Search Engine Speculation
On the same day Baidu was announcing another quarter of strong earnings, the Chinese search engine giant’s stock prices suddenly tumbled on a report American rival Google is planning to launch a new search engine for the Chinese market.
New Chips, L4 Autonomous Bus & Baidu Brain 3.0 Showcased at Baidu Create 2018
At the Baidu Create 2018 AI developer conference which kicked off today in Beijing, the company announced a series of AI-based innovations and product releases that seem designed to regain public trust.
NCRF in Deep Learning Improves Cancer Metastasis Detection
The Baidu Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Lab has released a paper which proposes a neural conditional random field (NCRF) process for cancer metastasis detection on Whole Slide Images (WSIs).
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from May W4 – June W1
Microsoft is working on a bias-detecting tool which can alert people if an AI algorithm might be treating them unfairly based on their race or gender. As more and more decisions are being made by or based on AI, the detection of unfair biases has become an important public issue.
Baidu COO Qi Lu Out; Haifeng Wang Named New AI Group Senior VP
Baidu announced this morning that COO Qi Lu will leave his position in July due to “personal and family reasons.” Baidu also promoted Dr. Haifeng Wang to Senior Vice President and General Manager of Baidu AI Group.
Can AI Reinvent the TV?
Leading television manufacturer Skyworth has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Chinese internet giant Baidu. In the deal announced March 17, Baidu will invest CN¥1.01 billion (US$159.7 million) in Skyworth’s Smart TV unit Coocaa; while its AI assistant system DuerOS will be integrated into Skyworth’s agenda-setting Super AI TV.
Baidu to Train 100,000 AI Talents in Three Years
In response to a growing shortage of AI talents, Zhang announced that Baidu will train over 100,000 AI talents with expertise in engineering and product development over the next three years.
Baidu to Test Self-driving Food Delivery with Meituan
Chinese media is reporting that Baidu will launch a series of self-driving delivery tests in cooperation with Meituan-Dianping, a group-buying service for local food and retail businesses. The first tests will take place in Xiongan, about 100 kilometres southwest of Beijing…
Alibaba Gears Up for Self-Driving Road Tests
China’s self-driving industry has just welcomed another major player: Alibaba Group is developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology and is ready to test its self-driving cars on public roads, Chinese media reported today.
Simulations Pave the Road for Self-Driving Technologies
The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines a computer simulation as “the use of a computer to represent the dynamic responses of one system by the behaviour of another system modeled after it.”
Baidu to Begin Testing Self-Driving Cars on Beijing Roads
It came as somewhat unexpected news when on March 22nd the Beijing Municipal Government gave tech unicorn Baidu the green light to test driverless cars on the city’s public roads.
Baidu Apollo Releases Massive Self-driving Dataset; Teams Up With Berkeley DeepDrive
Apollo Scape was released under Baidu’s autonomous driving platform Apollo, which Baidu hopes will become “the Android of the auto industry.” Apollo gives developers access to a complete set of service solutions and open-source codes and…
Baidu Launches Its Institute of Quantum Computing
Today Baidu announced Institute of Quantum Computing, which will conduct applied research and development on software and information technologies
Baidu Drops Lawsuit Against JingChi as the Two Team Up on Self-Driving Tech
Baidu announced today that self-driving startup JingChi has joined its open-source autonomous driving platform Apollo as a cooperative partner. JingChi’s new CEO Tony Han said in a statement, “JingChi is pleased to join Apollo, and is willing to grow fast with Apollo’s help.”
Baidu AI Can Clone Your Voice in Seconds
Baidu’s research arm announced yesterday that its 2017 text-to-speech (TTS) system Deep Voice has learned how to imitate a person’s voice using a mere three seconds of voice sample data.
CES 2018 Autonomous Driving Tech Review
At CES 2018, 555 companies or organizations participated in the “Automotive/Vehicle Technology” category, 23% of which were companies using autonomous driving technologies.
Life After Baidu: Yuanqing Lin’s AI Startup Moves Fast on Funding and B2B Opportunities
Yuanqing Lin’s AI startup Aibee.ai — or AI2B, AI to business — has landed US $25 million in angel round funding. The company was founded by the former Director of Baidu’s Institute of Deep Learning (IDL), and provides general AI solutions such as computer vision and image and speech recognition for companies in education, finance, retail, real estate and other sectors.
Baidu Research Adds Elite AI Talents, New Labs
Baidu Research announced talent acquisition of Dr. Kenneth W. Church, Dr. Jun Hua, and Dr. Hui Xiong, and launched two new research labs.
Ubiquitous Virtual Assistants and AI Homogenization at CES 2018
CES exhibitors promoted everything from AI-powered vehicles to smart refrigerators and robot puppies. But the tech driving these diverse products was the same: the virtual assistant, a conversational AI that can understand human speech and generate humanlike responses.
Baidu at CES: Developing AI at “China Speed”
China is undergoing a revolutionary transformation as AI rapidly penetrates industries from transportation to communication — a growth rate phenomenon that Baidu Group President & COO Qi Lu calls “China speed.”