AI Technology & Industry Review
Google I/O 2018 kicked off today with an uptempo keynote from CEO Sundar Pichai. The tech giant’s annual developer conference is always a platform for big announcements, and this was no exception, with Google gearing up for what promises to be an especially busy year.
AI researchers are gathering in Vancouver, Canada for the sixth annual ICLR (International Conference on Learning Representations). The event starts today and runs to May 3rd at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
Liulishuo is the AI English teacher on your phone. You don’t need to know how it works, yet it helps you learn English more efficiently than a human teacher,” says Yi Wang, Founder and CEO of Liulishuo — a Beijing-based “AI + language” company…
PyTorch, an open source machine learning library for Python, today announced the release of “PyTorch 0.4.0 with Windows support”.
The McKinsey Global Institute this month released the report “Notes From the AI Frontier Insights From Hundreds of Use Cases”. The 36-page discussion paper surveys cutting-edge machine learning algorithms, and discusses how they can be integrated or transformed into practical applications across 19 selected industries.
The Media and Entertainment industry is a cornerstone of contemporary human culture, delivering films, TV shows, advertisements and more in a multitude of languages across a wide variety of devices.
Alibaba’s R&D arm DAMO Academy announced yesterday that it is developing a new neural network chip called Ali-NPU for AI inferencing in the field of image processing, machine learning, etc.
When Bayesian Cognitive Scientist Josh Tenenbaum recently told a packed University of Toronto lecture hall that “intelligence is not just about pattern recognition,” the significance of the statement was not lost on the audience.
Leading machine learning conference International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) has named its best research papers of the last year: On the convergence of Adam and Beyond, Spherical CNNs, and Continuous Adaptation via Meta-learning in Nonstationary and Competitive Environments.
The US FDA defines five steps for the development of a new drug: discovery and development, preclinical research, clinical research, FDA review, and FDA post-market safety monitoring.
Facebook operates two flagship open source machine learning frameworks — Caffe2 and PyTorch. Their incompatibility, however, made it difficult to transform a PyTorch-defined model into Caffe2 or vice versa. Facebook is doing something about that.
The Age of Discovery began in the 15th century, when Europeans built their first oceangoing vessels and set out to explore the world. Whether motivated by political, economic or cultural factors, human exploration has traditionally been driven by technological progress.
As Facebook struggles with fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, its research arm today delivered a welcome bit of good news in deep learning. Research Engineer Dr. Yuxin Wu and Research Scientist Dr. Kaiming He proposed a new Group Normalization (GN) technique they say can accelerate deep neural network training with small batch sizes.
Founded in 2014 by international business lawyer Noory Bechor and machine learning guru Ilan Admon, LawGeex is a Tel Aviv-based legal tech startup focused on contract review. It closed US$7 million in Series A funding last March, principally from Indeed.com owner Recruit Holdings, Lool Ventures, and LionBird.
Google has announced the release of MusicVAE, a machine learning model that makes composing musical scores as easy as mixing paint on a palette. A breakthrough from Google Brain’s Magenta Project, MusicVAE generates and morphs melodies to output multi-instrumental passages optimized for expression, realism and smoothness which sound convincingly like human-composed music.
Microsoft researchers in the US and Asia sent a shockwave through the AI community today with their paper Achieving Human Parity on Automatic Chinese to English News Translation, which introduces a neural machine translation system they say equals the performance of human experts in Chinese-to-English translation.
I purchased a Tmall Genie X1 — Alibaba’s flagship smart speaker — at the discounted price of US$15 during China’s November 11 “Singles Day” shopping festival. I was given order number 560,000-ish, and received the product a month later. The speaker is regularly priced at US$79, about the same as its American counterpart Google Mini.
Paige.AI is a New York-based startup that fights cancer with AI. Launched last month as a spinoff from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) — the largest cancer research institute in the US — Paige.AI has exclusive access to MSK’s IP in the field of computational pathology as well as its dataset of 25 million pathology cancer images (“slides”).
Tencent Youtu — literally translated as “image optimization lab” — is the image processing, pattern recognition, machine learning, and data mining research arm of Chinese tech giant Tencent Group.
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.
Ninety percent of AI-enabled devices shipped today are based on architecture developed by Arm, a leading UK-based chip intellectual property (IP) provider known for its CPU and GPU processors…
Google announced this morning that its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) — a custom chip that powers neural network computations for Google services…
Online education platform Udacity thrilled flying car enthusiasts with its announcement of the world’s first flying car program.
AI academics from around the world are pouring into New Orleans for the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
The GDPR mandates that all customers or users are entitled to receive “specific information” regarding the decision. This raises the issue of AI interpretability, especially in deep learning systems.
The “Godfather of AI” Professor Geoffrey Hinton told a packed room of professionals and students today that machine learning is reinventing our relationship with our own thoughts.
Andrew Ng today announced the foundation of “AI Fund,” aimed at supporting startups that can transform businesses with AI technologies.
Jem Davies, General Manager of the ARM Machine Learning Group, sat down with Synced to outline his company’s ambitious roadmap for machine learning development.
Amazon and Alibaba’s brick-and-mortar-but-no-staff shops offer very different user experiences. To bring you first-hand feedback, Synced visited them.
One of the top minds in artificial intelligence, Andrew Ng believes “AI is the new electricity.” However few industries canContinue Reading
Google is opening an artificial intelligence research lab in Beijing, Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud Fei-fei Li announced today at the Google Developer Conference in Shanghai.
Google’s Ali Rahimi put it bluntly in his NIPS presentation: “Machine learning has become alchemy.” The words triggered Facebook’s Yann LeCun to fight back.
The lack of Mandarin interface in Echo and Google Home has prompted a number of Chinese companies to get in the game with their own smart speakers.
Machines have already beaten humans in image recognition accuracy, but they are also susceptible to errors. Last Friday, Vietnamese company Bkav announced they had outsmarted the AI-powered image recognition machine that unlocks the new iPhone X.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently joined the Canadian machine learning community to celebrate the country’s burgeoning AI ecosystem at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management’s Creative Destruction Lab (CDL).
Today, the “Godfather of Deep Learning” Dr. Geoffrey Hinton published the paper Dynamic Routing Between Capsules on Arxiv. This is being hailed as a revolutionary work that could totally revamp computer vision research.
Synced tech analyst reviews the thesis “Tree Boosting With XGBoost – Why Does XGBoost Win ‘Every’ Machine Learning Competition”, which investigates how XGBoost differs from traditional MART, and XGBoost’s superiority in machine learning competition.
Alibaba Group announced its new DAMO (Dharma) Academy for fundamental and disruptive technology research.
PITTSBURGH, PA – October 10, 2017 – Petuum, Inc., a machine learning (ML) infrastructure platform, has closed $93 million in Series B fundingContinue Reading
Silicon Valley-based Good AI lab aims to crowdsource the world’s unused FLOPS in order to provide medical researchers with the computing power they need.