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PyTorch 1.0 is here with JIT, C++ API, and new distributed packages

It was just two months back when Facebook announced the release of PyTorch 1.0 RC1. Facebook is now out with…

5 years ago

Twitter blocks Predictim, an online babysitter-rating service, for violating its user privacy policies; Facebook may soon follow suit

Twitter and Facebook accused Predictim of violating their policies on user surveillance and privacy, yesterday. Predictim is an online service that gives you an overall risk…

5 years ago

Uber’s new family of AI algorithms sets records on Pitfall and solves the entire game of Montezuma’s Revenge

Uber’s AI research team introduced Go-Explore, a new family of algorithms, capable of achieving scores over 2,000,000 on Atari game…

5 years ago

Facebook AI research and NYU school of medicine announces new open-source AI models and MRI dataset as part of their FastMRI project

Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and NYU school of medicine announced yesterday that they're releasing new open source AI research models…

5 years ago

5 types of deep transfer learning

Transfer learning is a method of reusing a model or knowledge for another related task. Transfer learning is sometimes also…

5 years ago

AWS updates the face detection, analysis and recognition capabilities in Amazon Rekognition

The AWS team announced updates to the face detection, analysis, and recognition features in its deep learning-based service, Amazon Rekognition,…

5 years ago

Apple has quietly acquired privacy-minded AI startup Silk Labs, reports Information

According to a report by Information, Apple has quietly acquired AI Startup Silk Labs earlier this year. The report of…

5 years ago

OpenCV 4.0 releases with experimental Vulcan, G-API module and QR-code detector among others

Two months after the OpenCV team announced the alpha release of Open CV 4.0, the final version 4.0 of OpenCV…

5 years ago

The US Department of Commerce wants to regulate export of AI and related products

This Monday the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a proposal to control the export of…

5 years ago

Mozilla introduces LPCNet: A DSP and deep learning-powered speech synthesizer for lower-power devices

Yesterday, Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies group introduced a new project called LPCNet, which is a WaveRNN variant. LPCNet aims to improve…

5 years ago