Facebook & CMU Open Catalyst Project Applies AI to Renewable Energy Storage
A new Facebook AI and CMU renewable energy storage project could enable labs to perform days of electrocatalyst screening and calculations in just seconds.
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Facebook & CMU Introduce TaBERT for Understanding Tabular Data Queries
TaBERT-powered neural semantic parsers showed performance improvements on the challenging benchmark WikiTableQuestions and demonstrated competitive performance on the text-to-SQL dataset Spider.
‘Active Neural Slam’ Uses Classical and Learning Approaches to Explore 3D Spaces
Researchers have introduced Active Neural SLAM, a modular and hierarchical approach to learning policies for exploring 3D environments.
Google Brain & CMU Semi-Supervised ‘Noisy Student’ Achieves 88.4% Top-1 Accuracy on ImageNet
Researchers from Google Brain and Carnegie Mellon University have released models trained with a semi-supervised learning method called “Noisy Student” that achieve 88.4 percent top-1 accuracy on ImageNet.
‘An Absolute Monster Bluffer’ – Facebook & CMU AI Bot Beats Poker Pros
Don’t simply “all in” if there’s a bot at your Texas hold’em poker table, because Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University’s new *Pluribus* AI system just beat five human pros at the same time — including a couple of World Series of Poker Champs.
CMU & Google XLNet Tops BERT; Achieves SOTA Results on 18 NLP Tasks
A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Google Brain have now proposed XLNet, a new language model which outperforms BERT on 20 language tasks including SQuAD, GLUE, and RACE; and has achieved SOTA results on 18 of these tasks.
Pittsburgh Mayor vs Uber: Can Stricter Safety Regulations End the Impasse?
David Danks commented on self-driving vehicle testing on the streets of his Pittsburgh neighbourhood: “They’re boring. You don’t notice them anymore because you see them five to ten times every day. People started to walk more and more frequently directly in front of the Uber cars, disproportionately more than they would ever in front of a human-driven car.”
Zhou Yu is Teaching Robots How Not to Be Ignored
Zhou Yu, the 29-year-old assistant professor at UC Davis is teaching robots to understand the nuances of non-verbal communication and use them to their advantage.
Poker & AI: The Rise of Machines Against Humans
AI applications in the poker industry? This infograh shows you the AI capable of playing poker at (very) high levels.
Pittsburgh’s Pivot to Artificial Intelligence
Synced meets the people transforming a former steel town into a metropolis powered by artificial intelligence and robotics.
Chinese Investors are Fascinated by Pitt’s Tech Boom
Pittsburgh, “Silicon Valley of the East”, captures the attention of tech giants, talents and investors for the progressive movements in advanced technology and innovation.