ICCV 2019 and CoRL 2019 Announce Best Papers; DeepMind AlphaStar Reaches ‘Grandmaster Level’
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DeepMind Uses GANs to Convert Text to Speech
DeepMind researchers are expanding GANs to audio, with a new adversarial network approach for high fidelity speech synthesis.
Amazon ML Director Begins DeepMind Professorship at Cambridge
The University of Cambridge has appointed Professor Neil Lawrence as its first DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning, a new position supported by Google-owned, UK-based AI research company DeepMind.
Quantum Chemistry Breakthrough: DeepMind Uses Neural Networks to Tackle Schrödinger Equation
DeepMind researchers have brought quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) to a higher level with the Fermionic Neural Network — or Fermi Net — a neural network with more flexibility and higher accuracy.
DeepMind ‘Bsuite’ Evaluates Reinforcement Learning Agents
Now AI researchers have created a similar evaluation system to assess the relative performance of reinforcement learning (RL) systems across different tasks.
Google AI & DeepMind Temporal Cycle-Consistency Learning Understands Every Video Frame
Frame-by-frame fine-grained labeling is however a time-consuming task. To tackle this problem, researchers from Google AI and DeepMind have introduced a novel self-supervised learning method called Temporal Cycle-Consistency Learning (TCC).
Waymo Teams Up With DeepMind; Lyft Shares Large-Scale Dataset
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DeepMind DVD-GAN: Impressive Step Toward Realistic Video Synthesis
he rapid development of AI models such as variational autoencoders (VAE) and generative adversarial networks (GAN) that can generate audio, images and video has opened a Pandora’s box of digital fakery.
StarCraft II Players Get the Chance to Play Against DeepMind’s AlphaStar!
Blizzard Entertainment, the American video game developer and publisher behind the StarCraft series, announced that AlphaStar will join the competitive ladder in Europe on the online gaming platform Battle.net, where it will play a limited number of games against human players.
Are Commercial Labs Stealing Academia’s AI Thunder?
Commercial research labs run by Google Research, DeepMind, and OpenAI are taking central stage in the artificial intelligence era. The eye-popping achievements of these massively-funded AI labs are constantly producing headlines in tech journals and even mainstream media.
DeepMind Transporter: Unsupervised Learning of Object Keypoints
In common reinforcement learning (RL) domains, existing keypoint discovery methods struggle to perceive keypoints in an image when there are limited objects present.
New DeepMind Unsupervised Image Model Challenges AlexNet
A new paper from Google’s UK-based research company DeepMind addresses this with a model based on Contrastive Predictive Coding (CPC) that outperforms the fully-supervised AlexNet model in Top-1 and Top-5 accuracy on ImageNet.
DeepMind & Google Brain Open Source HLE Framework for ‘Hanabi’
A favourite is the collaborative card game Hanabi, which won the 2013 Spiel des Jahres and 2013 Fairplay À la Carte Award. The game has now drawn the attention of AI researchers.
DeepMind AI Reaches Human-Level Performance in Quake III Arena
DeepMind is a trailblazer in the trending computer vs humans gaming research space. Following milestone victories against human pros on the board game Go and video game StarCraft II, the Google-owned research company has now pitted their new AI system against humans in the first-person shooter multiplayer video game Quake III Arena.
Going Beyond GAN? New DeepMind VAE Model Generates High Fidelity Human Faces
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have become AI researchers’ “go-to” technique for generating photo-realistic synthetic images. Now, DeepMind researchers say that there may be a better option.
‘Hot’ Papers from Google Brain, DeepMind and Facebook AI
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DeepMind Proposes a Novel Way to Improve GANs Using Gradient Information
Compressed Sensing’s ability to exploit the structure of natural images and recover an image from limited random measurements have made it an elegant framework for recovering sparse signals from compressed measurements.
DeepMind & Google Graph Matching Network Outperforms GNN
DeepMind and Google researchers have proposed a powerful new graph matching network (GMN) model for the retrieval and matching of graph structured objects.
Google Reduces BERT Pre-Training Time; DeepMind AI Fails High School Math Test
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DeepMind AI Flunks High School Math Test
DeepMind trained and tested its neural model by first collecting a dataset consisting of different types of mathematics problems. Rather than crowd-sourcing, they synthesized the dataset to generate a larger number of training examples, control the difficulty level and reduce training time.
New Method Applies Monte Carlo Neural Fictitious Self-Play to Texas Hold’em
Facing the incomplete information environment, the asynchronous neural virtual self-play (ANFSP) method allows AI to learn to generate optimal decisions in multiple virtual environments. The approach has performed well in Texas Hold’em and multiplayer FPS video games.
DeepMind TF-Replicator Simplifies Model Deployment on Cluster Architectures
DeepMind’s Research Platform Team has open-sourced TF-Replicator, a framework that enables researchers without previous experience with the distributed system to deploy their TensorFlow models on GPUs and Cloud TPUs. The move aims to strengthen AI research and development.
After Mastering Go and StarCraft, DeepMind Takes on Soccer
Having notched impressive victories over human professionals in Go, Atari Games, and most recently StarCraft 2 — Google’s DeepMind team has now turned its formidable research efforts to soccer. In a paper released last week, the UK AI company demonstrates a novel machine learning method that trains a team of AI agents to play a simulated version of “the beautiful game.”
Exciting Papers and Projects from Google
Synced Global AI Weekly February 10th
NLP Big Week: Stanford Released Python NLP Library; NLP Papers from DeepMind and Facebook
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GG! DeepMind Struts Its StarCraft Strength; Humans Strike Back
DeepMind bot AlphaStar has scored a convincing 10/10 victory against pro human players in a special series of StarCraft II matches. Plucky 26 year-old Polish gamer Grzegorz “MaNa” Komincz however salvaged a bit of human pride, snatching a surprise win yesterday in a live rematch at the DeepMind and Blizzard Entertainment Starcraft II Demonstration live stream event hosted in London.
Game On! DeepMind Vs StarCraft II
DeepMind and Blizzard Entertainment will present a StarCraft II live-stream demonstration on Thursday, Jan 24. The London-based Alphabet company known for taking down the world’s top Go master in 2017 tweeted the announcement yesterday.
All About NeurIPS 2018!
Synced Global AI Weekly December 9th
DeepMind AlphaFold Delivers “Unprecedented Progress” on Protein Folding
In 2016 Google’s DeepMind stunned the world when their Go computer AlphaGo secured a historic victory over Korean grandmaster Lee Sedol. Yesterday the UK’s top AI team delivered their latest “wow moment” as their AI system AlphaFold topped the Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP) competition.
Big News of AI Industry Leaders This Week
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DeepMind Announces Pre-Symptom Eye Disease Prediction at Moorfields
Google DeepMind has announced that its project with London’s Moorfields Eye Hospital will now include working with clinicians to predict eye diseases before symptoms occur.
DeepMind Paper Challenges Generative Models’ Judgement
It’s known that deep neural network models — mostly discriminative models — are prone to making poor predictions with high confidence when they encounter data distribution scenarios that vary too much from their training data.
DeepMind Releases Graph Nets Library
DeepMind announced today that it has opened its Graph Nets (GN) library to the public, enabling the use of graph networks in TensorFlow and Sonnet. Graph Nets is a machine learning framework that was published by DeepMind, Google Brain, MIT and University of Edinburgh on Jun 15.
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.
DeepMind Open-Sources RL Library TRFL
DeepMind announced today that it is open-sourcing its TRFL (pronounced ‘truffle’) library, which contains a variety of building blocks useful for developing reinforcement learning (RL) agents in TensorFlow.
RE•WORK London Deep Learning Summit
Last month’s ReWork Deep Learning Summit in London provided a peek at current recent research progress and future trends in artificial intelligence technologies. The two-day event featured top scientists and engineers from Facebook, MIT Media lab, DeepMind and other leading institutes.
BigGAN: A New State of the Art in Image Synthesis
“Best GAN samples ever yet? Very impressive ICLR submission! BigGAN improves Inception Scores by >100.” The above Tweet is from renowned Google DeepMind research scientist Oriol Vinyals. It was retweeted last week by Google Brain researcher and “Father of Generative Adversarial Networks” Ian Goodfellow, and picked up momentum and praise from AI researchers on social media.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from August W2 – W3
Blockchain hardware, software, and services company Bitmain confirms it will build a data center in Rockdale, Texas and invest US$500 million in the United States over the next seven years. Bitmain will launch a local training program and hire more than 400 employees.
The Eyes Have It: DeepMind’s AI 3D OCT Scans
Artificial intelligence can now match or outperform human experts in diagnosis and referral on eye diseases, suggests a new paper from DeepMind. The UK-based, Google-owned research institute today released joint research results with the UK’s Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, which present a new AI technique in the context of OCT imaging. The paper was published on Nature Medicine’s website.
IJCAI 2018 Kicks Off; DeepMind AlphaGo Wins Marvin Minsky Medal
The 2018 International Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) opened today in Stockholm, Sweden, with a record-setting 2,500 attendees gathering at the Stockholm International Fairs convention centre.