Google & DeepMind Researchers Revamp ImageNet | Synced
WEBJun 23, 2020 · Google & DeepMind Researchers Revamp ImageNet. A team of researchers from Google Brain in Zürich and DeepMind London believe one of the world’s most popular image databases may need a makeover. ImageNet is an unparalleled computer vision reference point with more than 14 million labelled images. It was designed for visual …
Exploring Gender Imbalance in AI: Numbers, Trends, and Discussions
WEBMar 13, 2020 · As of 2015, women made up only 18% of computer science majors in the US — a decline from a high of 37% in 1984, according to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2018 report. The AI Now Institute last year estimated that women currently make up 24.4% of the computer science workforce and receive …
Improving Image Matching: New Open-Source Benchmark with …
WEBApr 6, 2020 · Improving Image Matching: New Open-Source Benchmark with 30K Images. In an ancient Indian parable, six blind men encounter an elephant but struggle to discern what it is. One taps the beast’s side, guessing it could be a wall. Gripping a leg, another imagines a tree trunk, while a third taps the pointy tusks and fears a threatening spear.
Meet Meena: A Truly Chatty Chatbot | Synced
WEBJan 30, 2020 · Conversations between Meena and humans. Introduced in Google AI’s recent paper Towards a Human-like Open-Domain Chatbot, Meena’s main architecture is a seq2seq model with the Evolved Transformer. It was trained on 341GB of text (40B words) mined and filtered from public domain social media conversations. Compared with …
Global Survey of Autonomous Vehicle Regulations | Synced
WEBMar 15, 2018 · The Netherlands’ Council of Ministers first approved autonomous vehicle road testing in 2015, and updated its bill last February to allow tests without a driver. The Dutch government is spending €90 million adapting more than 1,000 of the country’s traffic lights to enable them to communicate with autonomous vehicles.
LeCun vs Rahimi: Has Machine Learning Become Alchemy?
WEBDec 12, 2017 · The debate started with Google’s Ali Rahimi, winner of the Test-of-Time award at the recent Conference on Neural Information Processing (NIPS). Rahimi put it bluntly in his NIPS presentation: “Machine learning has become alchemy.”. Ali Rahimi speaks at NIPS. According to Rahimi, machine learning research and alchemy both …
Mapbox Is Mapping the Future - Synced
WEBMar 22, 2018 · Mapping for autonomous driving is a high-growth sector estimated to open up a US$20 billion market by 2050, according to Goldman Sachs. While breakthroughs in self-driving technologies have thus far come from sensors such as LiDars and Cameras, the important role of maps cannot be overlooked. In the future, maps may even become …
China’s GPT-3? BAAI Introduces Superscale Intelligence Model …
WEBMar 23, 2021 · The BAAI research team summarizes some of Wu Dao 1.0’s key contributions: Wu Dao – Wen Yuan introduces the open-source Chinese pretraining model (CPM). Based on CPM, the CPM-Distill model reduces language confusion by 38 percent and achieves better results on downstream tasks. Wu Dao – Wen Lan is the first …
A Look at Recent Advances in Google Translate | Synced
WEBJun 10, 2020 · Incorporating these new advances, Google’s latest model scores an average five-point increase on BLEU compared to the previous GNMT model — with the class of 50 low-resources languages achieving an average seven-point boost. The researchers note that there is still much room for improvement in the quality of automatic translation for ...
2020 in Review: 10 AI-Powered Art Projects | Synced
WEBDec 23, 2020 · AI has become increasingly capable of generating impressive artworks across a wide range of styles and forms, from abstract painting to prose writing, film scores, and even operas. Many researchers spent much of 2020 at home, where, apparently, many explored AI’s creative potential. As part of our year-end series, Synced highlights 10 AI ...