Europe Does Not Want To Be Left Behind In AI
GDPR Explanation vs AI Performance?
European netizens spent yesterday clicking through privacy policy updates for their various subscribed platforms and services. That's because the European Union's new GDPR - billed as the world's toughest data use policy - came into effect today...
MoD Launches Flagship AI Lab
The government's obsession with everything AI has continued with Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson announcing the launch of a new artificial intelligence flagship hub to enhance UK’s AI, machine learning capabilities...
Uber's European Rival Taxify Raises $175M Led by Daimler at A $1B Valuation?
There's a new unicorn in the global ride-hailing space after Taxify, a startup born in Estonia that does battle with Uber across Europe and Africa, closed $175 million in new funding that takes it valuation to the $1 billion mark...
Russian Search Giant Yandex Made Its Own Smart Speaker
The speaker, called the Yandex Station, is the company’s first attempt at hardware, and it’s equipped with a Russian-speaking voice assistant called Alice that was developed in-house...
Technology
Gym Retro
OpenAI released the full version of Gym Retro, a platform for reinforcement learning research on games. This brings their publicly-released game count from around 70 Atari games and 30 Sega games to over 1,000 games across a variety of backing emulators.
Learning to Optimize Tensor Programs
Researchers from Allen Institute, University of Washington, Fudan University and SJTU introduce a learning-based framework to optimize tensor programs for deep learning workloads.
Self-Attention Generative Adversarial Networks
Researchers from Google Brain and Rutgers University propose the Self-Attention Generative Adversarial Network (SAGAN) which allows attention-driven, long-range dependency modeling for image generation tasks.
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Ng's team at Stanford got the results with a 169-layer convolutional neural network (CNN) trained on the Stanford lab’s new bone X-ray dataset MURA, for “musculoskeletal radiographs” - said to be the world's largest public radiographic image dataset, with 40,561 labeled images...
Global AI Events
| 5-6 Jun | Gartner Data & Analytics Summit | Mumbai, India. |
| 6-7 Jun | Machine Intelligence Summit | Hong Kong, China. |
| 11-12 Jun | CogX London 2018: Festival of All Things AI | London, UK. |
| 12-14 Jun | AI Summit London | London, UK. |
| 12-13 Jun | Predictive analytics World Industry 4.0 | Munich, Germany. |
| 14-15 Jun | AI & Machine Learning for Clinical Trial | Philadelphia, USA. |
Global AI Opportunities
DeepMotion is looking for Deep Learning Engineer, Path Planning Engineer and Automative Control Engineer in Beijing, China.
Nullmax needs full-time/intern Deep Learning Engineer, Computer Vision Engineer and C++ Engineer in Shanghai,China.
Preferred Networks is hiring engineers and researchers in their ML/Robotics/Transportation/BioHealth team in Tokyo and Berkeley, CA.
Liulishuo wants Research Scientist, Android Developers, Data Scientists and Enigeers in NLP in San Mateo and Shanghai.
