Jensen Huang Serves Up the A100: NVIDIA’s Hot New Ampere Data Centre GPU
The A100 represents the largest leap in performance across the company’s eight GPU generations - a boost of up to 20x over its predecessors.
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AI Solutions for Healthier & Longer Pet Lives
The booming global pet care market is projected to grow to US$280 billion by 2025.
AI-Powered Digital People
Synced has identified some interesting AI-powered virtual humans to introduce to our readers.
It’s Time to Improve the Scientific Paper Review Process – But How?
In recent years however peer review processes have come under fire - especially from the machine learning community - with complaints of long delays, inconsistent standards and unqualified reviewers.
Synced Machine Intelligence Awards Recognize Innovation: 50 Industry Leaders and 60 Solutions
The Synced Machine Intelligence Awards 2019 focus is on “the power of industry,” and the selection process keyed in on AI products, application cases and industry landings, with choices based on verifiable industry performance.
Women in AI | Chelsea Finn: ‘I Certainly Feel Like a Minority’
As part of the Women in AI special project, Synced spoke with Chelsea Finn, an assistant professor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.
Physical Distancing Boosts AI-Powered Online Education in China
Many artificial intelligent education institutions are offering free online courses and accounts to students.
China’s Autonomous Delivery Vehicles Navigate the Coronavirus Outbreak
In autonomous food and medicine delivery and beyond, the increasingly mature AI industry is actively engaged in countering the COVID-19 outbreak.
Beijing Self-Driving Vehicle Road Tests Topped One Million Km in 2019
A recent report suggests China has picked up speed, with Beijing emerging as a new self-driving vehicle hot spot.
100M Masks/Day: Automated Production Lines Work Overtime to Stop COVID-19 Spread
Pushed by the coronavirus outbreak, in early March 2020 China’s face mask production hit 110 percent capacity, with daily output exceeding 100 million masks according to state agency statistics.
Former Microsoft AI Head Harry Shum Returns to Academia, Takes New Position With Tsinghua University
Shum will speak at China’s Tsinghua University in Beijing, where he will formally assume a Dual-Professorship position with the prestigious school’s Institute for Advanced Study.
Intel AI GM Naveen Rao Leaves After Habana Chosen Over Nervana
Naveen G. Rao, corporate vice president and general manager of the Artificial Intelligence Platforms Group at Intel, is stepping down.
YOLO Creator Joseph Redmon Stopped CV Research Due to Ethical Concerns
Joseph Redmon, creator of the popular object detection algorithm YOLO, tweeted last week that he had ceased his computer vision research to avoid enabling potential misuse of the tech.
How AI Is Changing Your Kitchen
Thanks to AI technologies such as image recognition and machine learning, people can now save time, food and money in the kitchen while discovering creative and tasty recipes and even generating their own new and personalized flavours.
Happy AI New Year! Global Researchers Reflect on 2019, Talk Trends for 2020
To welcome 2020 with some fresh AI perspectives, Synced spoke with global researchers from Google Brain, Sony AI, Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial (formerly known as Alipay) and other organizations.
AI in the E-Commerce Industry
E-commerce is a fast-growing industry. In 2017, global retail e-commerce sales reached US$2.3 trillion, and e-retail revenue is expected to grow to US$4.88 trillion in 2021.
Google Health Data Backlash; Microsoft Head of AI and Research Splits; Bengio vs Marcus in Christmas Debate
Synced Global AI Weekly November 17th
AI Struts Down the Japanese Fashion Runway
Although Japan’s declining and aging population has done little to stimulate the domestic fashion industry, AI is getting very positive reviews from the country’s still massive JP¥9 trillion (US$83 billion) apparel market.
Baidu PaddlePaddle Releases 21 New Capabilities to Accelerate Industry-Grade Model Development
Featuring 100+ models, new mobile inference engine, and frameworks for graph & federated learning
Head of Microsoft AI and Research Harry Shum Is Leaving the Company
Microsoft Executive Vice President Harry Shum (Shen Xiangyang), the head of Microsoft AI and Research, will leave the tech giant in early 2020.
Synced Machine Intelligence Awards 2019: ‘The Power of Industry’
The Synced Machine Intelligence Awards 2019 focus is “the power of industry” and the selection process will key in on AI companies’ products, application cases and industry landings — with the most noteworthy companies chosen based on real and objective industry performance.
Industrial Internet of Things & Factories of the Future
The market opportunities for IIoT are massive. Markets & Markets reports the global IIoT market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.39 percent to reach US$91.4 billion by 2023, with the manufacturing industry holding the largest market share.
Running an Industrial Robotics Software Startup Is Not Getting Easier
After running the industrial robot operating system startup “Cobot” for three years, founder Miao Li has decided to axe 98 percent of the company’s “fancy services” and just focus on drug logistics and sorting mushrooms.
Is NVIDIA Doubling Down On RISC-V?
The US chip giant now appears to be exploring the terrain beyond GPU architecture, raising the stakes on other dedicated electronic circuits.
LiDAR Industry Hits Impasse: Was Elon Musk Right After All?
Since the business mindset is to focus on short-term feasible technologies, the lack of serious buyers is the real problem for the LiDAR industry.
Data Annotation: The Billion Dollar Business Behind AI Breakthroughs
Most insiders Synced interviewed agreed that machine learning training methods which require less labeled data — such as weakly supervised learning, few-shot learning and unsupervised learning — are achieving some promising results.
Why Automation Isn’t the Answer to Smart Manufacturing
While management teams and consultants may spout trendy tech terms such as “process”, “automated”, or “smart”, and seem keen to hand over precisely-timed, measured tasks to machines, the truth is that AI tech is not a panacea — because manufacturing is hard.
How NLP Is Advancing Asset Management
Although natural language processing (NLP) has been around for decades, the recent and rapid rise of deep learning algorithms together with the increasing availability of massive amounts of text data are creating new and appealing opportunities for the tech across many industry sectors, including in the investment world.
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.
Artificial Intelligence is the New Electricity — Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng – former Baidu Chief Scientist, Coursera co-founder, and Stanford Adjunct Professor – gave a talk at the Stanford MSx Future Forum.