In a new paper, researchers from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) design and implement attacks that leverage characteristics of the light emitted by modern smart bulbs to “steal&… | Continue reading
Image recognition technology in particular has come to play a valuable role in wildlife conservation, where endangered species are tallied and tracked so their numbers and migrations can be more ac… | Continue reading
Daniel Povey, the main developer of the widely used open-source speech recognition toolkit Kaldi, tweeted today that he is likely joining Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi at its Beijing headquarters… | Continue reading
Figures from nonprofit organization Mental Health America show the severe depression rate for US youth increased from 5.9 to 8.2 percent over the last five years. The numbers provide a sobering gli… | Continue reading
This summer Google Research extended BERT to video and introduced VideoBERT, a self-supervised learning model that can learn the relationship between videos and texts. | Continue reading
“Adversaries and strategic competitors probably will attempt to use deep fakes or similar machine-learning technologies to create convincing — but false — image, audio, and video files to aug… | Continue reading
A team of researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology recently proposed a new architecture that can anonymize faces in images automatically while the original data distribut… | Continue reading
More and more social apps are now leveraging AI technologies such as machine learning, deep neural networks and facial recognition to enable users to create highly-individualized emojis from selfie… | Continue reading
In an official statement released today on python.org, the volunteer team that manages the programming language announced they will sunset Python 2 on January 1, 2020. | Continue reading
In collaboration with Partnership on AI, Microsoft, and academics from top universities, Facebook today announced the Deepfake Detection Challenge (DFDC) with the aim of finding innovative deepfake… | Continue reading
A group of Chinese researchers have come up with a novel method for identifying mirrors in images which outperforms state-of-the-art detection and segmentation methods on targeted baselines. | Continue reading
Technical review of the newest machine intelligence research. | Continue reading
A new Github project introduces a remarkable Real-Time Voice Cloning Toolbox that enables anyone to clone a voice from as little as five seconds of sample audio. | Continue reading
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 — ar… | Continue reading
Synced is proud to present Gary Marcus as the last installment in our Lunar New Year Project — a series of interviews with AI experts reflecting on AI development in 2018 and looking ahead to 2019.… | Continue reading
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 — ar… | Continue reading
A new research paper from Berlin-based unicorn fashion and technology company Zalando uses generative adversarial networks (GANs) to produce high-resolution images of virtual fashion models ready t… | Continue reading
According to multinational consulting firm McKinsey & Company, by the year 2025 some 85 percent of last-mile deliveries will be carried by autonomous vehicles. | Continue reading
Synced would like to invite Toronto AI and data science students and researchers to join representatives of the world’s largest data science community for an evening of networking, discussions, and… | Continue reading
This article looks at three Japanese cases where AI is being applied either in large-scale aquaculture or to improve yields in traditional capture fishing. | Continue reading
Recently, Facebook AI Research (FAIR) researchers introduced a structured memory layer which can be easily integrated into a neural network to greatly expand network capacity and the number of para… | Continue reading
Today, respected scientific journal Nature boosted the case for AGI with a cover story on a new research paper, Towards artificial general intelligence with hybrid Tianjic chip architecture, which … | Continue reading
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Researchers from UC Berkeley and the Universities of Washington and Chicago have released a set of natural adversarial examples, which they call “ImageNet-A.” | Continue reading
Forerunners Google and NVIDIA announced today that they have set new AI training time records on the MLPerf benchmark competition. | Continue reading
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… | Continue reading
At last month’s RE•WORK Applied AI Summit 2019 in San Francisco, AI experts from Uber and Lyft shared insights on how the companies are leveraging machine learning algorithms to improve their servi… | Continue reading
Baidu’s homegrown deep learning framework PaddlePaddle will empower Huawei’s Kirin smartphone chips, the company announced at the Baidu Create 2019 AI Developer Conference that kicked off today in … | Continue reading
A Reddit post has triggered discussions regarding a patent Google filed on Dropout supposedly becoming active last week. | Continue reading
In a new paper accepted at CVPR 2019, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems introduce a unique 4D (moving 3D images) face dataset and its learned model VOCA — Voice Oper… | Continue reading
Alphabet’s autonomous driving unit Waymo surprised many by releasing a new high-quality multimodal sensor dataset for autonomous driving. The *Waymo Open Dataset *was introduced at top AI conferenc… | Continue reading
Instead of having users simply swipe through headshots, many new dating apps and online platforms are leveraging artificial intelligence to introduce a variety of novel approaches to smart matchmak… | Continue reading
In a joint effort with the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and Alphabet (Google) X, Google AI researchers recently announced a new open source library, TensorNetwork, which can greatly … | Continue reading
Deep learning model performance has taken huge strides, allowing researchers to tackle tasks which were simply not possible for machines less than a decade ago. | Continue reading
In a bid to provide a smoother reproduction experience, Facebook has announced the beta release of PyTorch Hub, a new pretrained model repository designed to facilitate research reproducibility tes… | Continue reading
Might there be a more efficient approach to scaling up CNNs to improve accuracy? Researchers from Google AI say “yes” and have proposed a new model scaling method in their ICML 2019 paper Efficient… | Continue reading
The top semiconductor and hardware companies have arrived in Taipei, Taiwan for Computex 2019. The world’s biggest computer show is a preferred stage for the likes of AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, and … | Continue reading
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Respected AI pioneer and visionary Nils John Nilsson passed away early this morning at age 86. | Continue reading