GAN 2.0: NVIDIA’s Hyperrealistic Face Generator | Synced
WEBDec 14, 2018 · The NVIDIA paper proposes an alternative generator architecture for GAN that draws insights from style transfer techniques. The system can learn and separate different aspects of an image unsupervised; and enables intuitive, scale-specific control of the synthesis. Here’s how it works: Given an input facial image, the style-based …
Roadstar.ai: The Rise and Fall of a Self-Driving Startup
WEBApr 8, 2019 · A year ago, Shenzhen-based self-driving start-up Roadstar.ai was cruising along promisingly. In May 2018 the company announced a US$128 million funding round led by Wu Capital and state-backed Shenzhen Capital Group — one of the largest autonomous driving investments ever in China. With its focus on advanced L4 …
Microsoft Improves Transformer Stability to Successfully Scale ...
WEBMar 3, 2022 · A Microsoft Research team has introduced a "simple yet effective" method that dramatically improves stability in transformer models with just a few lines of code change. Large-scale transformers have achieved state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks, and in recent years have also …
Data Search Platform TianYanCha Knows Chinese Businesses
WEBJun 28, 2018 · A business data search firm is bombarding China’s subways and business centres with ads. TianYanCha — literally SkyEye Search — has become the “go to” source for governments, consulting agencies, legal service providers, and media outlets who want to perform comprehensive business background checks.. TianYanCha was founded in …
Facebook’s Flexible ‘RAG’ Language Model Achieves SOTA Results …
WEBSep 29, 2020 · Unlike pretrained models, RAG’s internal knowledge can be revised, expanded, and even altered — and this is its true strength, according to Facebook. Changing what a pretrained language model knows has typically entailed retraining the entire model with new documents. The proposed approach however enables …
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 …
2020 in Review: 10 AI Failures | Synced
WEBJan 1, 2021 · 2020 in Review: 10 AI Failures. by Synced. 2021-01-01. Comments 26. The global artificial intelligence market is expected to top US$40 billion in 2020, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 43.39 percent, according to Market Insight Reports. AI’s remarkable achievements and continuing rapid expansion into new …
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 …
Facebook AI’s DETR Applies Transformers to CV Tasks
WEBMay 29, 2020 · Transformers are a deep learning architecture that has gained popularity in recent years, particularly on problems with sequential data such as natural language processing (NLP) tasks like language modelling and machine translation. Transformers have also been extended to tasks such as speech recognition, symbolic mathematics, …
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 ...