2019 AI Residency Guide
Synced surveyed a number of 2019 AI residency programs that may be of interest to readers.
Tag: Microsoft
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.
Microsoft Neural TTS Makes Machines Speak like Humans
Microsoft today announced a new neural text-to-speech synthesis system that makes computer voices nearly indistinguishable from human recordings. Neural TTS currently available for preview through Azure Cognitive Services Speech Services.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from August W4 – September W1
Anglian Water plans to install an AI-based energy storage machine system in its water treatment facilities. The system will provide a real-time energy consumption balancing service and increase the lifespan of storage machines. The AI system was designed by Open Energi and is expected to be full operational by next year.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from July W2 – W3
Facebook is working with a select group of advertisers to create augmented reality ads for its News Feed. When users activate an ad’s tap-to-try AR capability it can display for example how a pair of glasses would look on their face via the user’s webcam and screen. Facebook says it also intends to expand shopping support in Instagram Stories.
Q&A With Microsoft Chief Speech Scientist Xuedong Huang
A performance boost of less than one percent may not seem like much to most people, but for Microsoft Global Technical Fellow and Chief Speech Scientist Xuedong Huang, it’s cause for celebration.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from June W2 – W3
Salesforce announces a deeper data sharing partnership with Google. Consumer insights from Salesforce’s Marketing Cloud and Google Analytics 360 will be merged into one dashboard for either platform. Marketing Cloud data can be used to create a more customized web experience.
Microsoft Partner ROOBO: Cute Robots, Smart Conferencing, AI Platform
Founded in 2014, ROOBO received US$100 million in Series A financing from iFlytek, and in September 2017 announced B Round financing of US$53 million led by Seven Seas Capital.
Microsoft Industrial IoT: Five Use Cases
We tend to notice the AI that’s in our smartphones, powering our home assistants or piloting self-driving cars. But there is another tech revolution going on — out of sight for most of us — wherein AI and robotics are reinventing entire factories and industrial processes.
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.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from May W1 – May W2
Singapore’s NGEE Ann Polytechnic (NP) and London’s Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CFTE) launch an AI in Finance course. The course will provide an overview of AI knowledge in the fintech and digital finance fields.
Microsoft Courts Developers with AI-Enhanced Tools at Build 2018
Days after Facebook F8 wrapped up in San Jose, the Microsoft Developer Conference Build 2018 opened in Seattle. The conference runs May 7-9 at the Washington Convention Center, and is an opportunity for Microsoft to court developers…
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Apr W 2 – Apr W 3
IBM announces a four-year program in collaboration with Calgary-based Natural Resources Solutions Center to help oil and gas companies with sustainability and efficiency.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Mar W 4 – Apr W 1
Now social and behavioral scientists can use the TuringBox platform to study artificial intelligence algorithms. AI contributors can upload existing and novel algorithms for review, gaining a reputation in their community.
Tracking the Transforming AI Chip Market
Embedded AI can transform a tabletop speaker into a personal assistant; give a robot brains and dexterity; and turn a smartphone into a smart camera, music player, or game console. Traditional processors, however, lack the computational power to support many of these intelligent features.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Mar W 2 – Mar W 3
Google is collaborating with the United States Department of Defense to create an AI system for identifying drone footage. The system will leverage machine learning and computer vision technologies to collect and categorize drone footage more efficiently.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Feb W 4 – Mar W 1
Capillary Technologies is a cloud-based SaaS company serving over 300 large enterprises and 500 small or medium businesses in over 30 countries. It improves retailers’ engagement with customers through analytics.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from February (Pt 1)
The staffless Amazon Go opens to the public in downtown Seattle. Just like a normal convenience store, this intelligent store sells pre-cooked food, snacks, drinks , etc. — but there’s no cashier scanning the goods.
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.
AI Biweekly News Roundup
Myntra Applies AI to Clothing Design; San Jose Negotiates With Partners to Deploy Autonomous Vehicle Transit; Can Google Street View Images See the Future?; Ctrip and Baidu Launch AI Pocket Chinese-English Translator; Canada To Use AI to Track Suicide Trends on Social Media
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Dec (Pt 2)
MIT scientists teach AI to have emotions; AI company Stem works with Mitsui to build the first energy storage in Japan; New York City implements expert team to correct algorithm biases
Meet Voice Pioneer Dr. Mei-Yuh Hwang
Mobvoi hired Dr. Mei-Yuh Hwang as its Vice President of Engineering in 2016. A respected speech recognition researcher and former Principle NLP Scientist Manager at Microsoft, Dr. Hwang is a pioneer in voice recognition and machine translation.
Google AI Assistant Smartest in Human IQ Tests
Clearly, digital voice assistants are wising up — how long until they catch up?
RIP Theano
Before TensorFlow, PyTorch and Caffe; Theano was the major library for deep learning development. However, the library’s development and support will end after the upcoming Theano 1.0 release.
Machine Teaching A New Paradigm for Building Machine Learning Systems
This paper laid out the position of Machine Teaching, a universally accessible, easy to manage, and fast discipline proposed by Microsoft Research, and articulated the fundamental machine teaching principles.
by Synced
2017-06-13
Scientists and Stakeholders in Geneva for Good Artificial Intelligence
“AI for Good Global Summit,” held June 7-9 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Chinese AI Talents in US are Driving Attention from Worldwide Tech Giants
Rapid rise of AI industry drives extremely huge demand for talents, Chinese AI talents in US are driving attention from worldwide tech giants.