Bitbucket to no longer support Mercurial, users must migrate to Git by May 2020
Yesterday marked an end of an era for Mercurial users, as Bitbucket announced to no longer support Mercurial repositories after May 2020. Bitbucket, owned...
Google open sources an on-device, real-time hand gesture recognition algorithm built with MediaPipe
Google researchers have unveiled a new real-time hand tracking algorithm that could be a new breakthrough for people communicating via sign language. Their algorithm...
Twitter and Facebook removed accounts of Chinese state-run media agencies aimed at undermining Hong...
Update August 23, 2019: After Twitter, and Facebook Google has shutdown 210 YouTube channels that were tied to misinformation about Hong Kong protesters. The...
Terrifyingly realistic Deepfake video of Bill Hader transforming into Tom Cruise is going viral...
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How Data Privacy awareness is changing how companies do business
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Facebook research suggests chatbots and conversational AI are on the verge of empathizing with...
Last week, the Facebook AI research team published a progress report on dialogue research that is fundamentally building more engageable and personalized AI systems.
According...
Why are experts worried about Microsoft’s billion dollar bet in OpenAI’s AGI pipe dream?
Microsoft has invested $1 billion in OpenAI with the goal of building next-generation supercomputers and a platform within Microsoft Azure which will scale to...
Why Intel is betting on BFLOAT16 to be a game changer for deep learning...
A group of researchers from Intel Labs and Facebook have published a paper titled, “A Study of BFLOAT16 for Deep Learning Training”. The paper...
#TechWontBuildIt: Entropic maintainer calls for a ban on Palantir employees contributing to the project...
The tech industry is being plagued by moral and ethical issues as top players are increasingly becoming explicit about prioritizing profits over people or...
How bad is the gender diversity crisis in AI research? Study analysing 1.5million arxiv...
Yesterday the team at Nesta organization, an innovation firm based out of UK published a research on gender diversity in the AI research workforce....
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Learn Transformers for Natural Language Processing with Denis Rothman
Key takeaways
The transformer architecture has proved to be revolutionary in outperforming the classical RNN and CNN models in use today.
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