AI ML Newsletter

AI Digest: Monthly updates on AI and ML topics

Issue #20: February 2021

• CVPR 2021 Workshops

Issue #19: January 2021

• Visdom: a data visualization tool

• Objectron Dataset

• JupyterLab 3.0 is released

Issue #18: December 2020

• Robustness Metrics

• DeiT: Data-efficient image Transformers

• AI Debate 2: Moving AI Forward

• Mementor

• NVIDIA Inception Alliance with GE Healthcare and Nuance

Issue #17: November 2020

• AlphaFold-2

• NeurIPS Meetup Japan 2020

• Grad SLAM

• The Language Interpretability Tool (LIT)

• Image Expert Models

• MinDiff Framework

• Apple M1 chip

Issue #16: October 2020

• Papers with Code & Arxiv partnership

• VLFeat Library gets an award

• M2M-100 — multilingual machine translation

• TensorSensor

• NVIDIA Maxine

• NeurIPS 2020 Accepted Papers

Issue #15: September 2020

• NVIDIA to acquire Arm

• Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Specialization

• GeForce RTX 30 Series

• NLP Specialization — Attention Models

Issue #14: August 2020

• TensorFlow Lite Micro support on the ESP32

• TF-Coder

• Objax: a new high-level JAX API

• Apple's AI/ML residency program

• Semantic MapNet

• Danfo.js: a Pandas-like Library in JavaScript

• ECCV 2020 Conference

• Model Card Toolkit for Easier Model Transparency Reporting

• Real World Reinforcement Learning (RWRL) simulation suite

• Google offers career certificates equivalent to 4-year degrees

Issue #13: July 2020

• IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award 2021

• GPT-3 codes up a website for you

• ICML 2020 Outstanding Paper Awards

• CVPR, ICCV, WACV videos

• ACL 2020 Best Paper Award

• Deep Learning with PyTorch

• MIT takes down Tiny Images dataset due to offensive content

• International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science

Issue #12: June 2020

• Keen: Machine Learning based version of Pinterest

• The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI)

• CVPR 2020 (virtual)

• NeurIPS 2020 fully virtual

• ICML 2020 Accepted Papers

• NeurIPS 2020 Competitions

Issue #11: May 2020

• New Raspberry PI device released

• GameGAN: NVIDIA recreates PAC-MAN

• ACL 2020 announced accepted papers

• NVIDIA released a new GPU: A100

• Hugging Face models' performance visualization

• The Big Bad NLP Database

• OSS release of pytorch-pfn-extras

• New website for Keras has been launched

• Reinforcement Learning with Augmented Data (RAD)

• CNN Explainer

Issue #10: April 2020

• Facebook AI releases Blender

• Virtual ICLR 2020

• Facebook and AWS introduce TorchServe

• PyTorch v1.5 release

• MONAI: An Open Source AI Framework for Healthcare Research

• The AI For Medicine Specialization

• OpenAI Microscope

• We lost John Horton Conway

• ML Code Completeness Checklist

• Image Matching Benchmark and Challenge

• Waymo: Automated Data Augmentation

• ACM Prize in Computing Awarded to AlphaGo Lead David Silver

Issue #9: March 2020

• Keras turned 5

• Facebook releases SynSin

• Turing Award 2019 winners: Patrick M. Hanrahan and Edwin E. Catmull

• NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis

• Stanford NLP Group releases Stanza

• Google announced TensorFlow Developer Certificate

• ICLR 2020 as a fully virtual conference due to the coronavirus spreading

• Google announced TensorFlow Quantum: An Open Source Library for Quantum Machine Learning

• Researchers from Microsoft have created AI ethics checklist with nearly 50 engineers from a dozen tech companies

• Google announced a new neural-network library: Neural Tangents

Issue #8: February 2020

• Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio have been invited to AAAI-2020 conference to give a talk

• Powerful antibiotic discovered using machine learning for first time

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Issue #7: August 2019

• OpenAI releases GPT-2 774M parameter model

• TF 2.0 is now available

Issue #6: July 2019

• GPT-2 and BERT on-device with Swift and CoreML

• Microsoft invests $1B in OpenAI

• pip install pytorch-transformers

• ICLR 2020 First Call for Papers

• Google ML Summit in Tokyo

• New fast.ai course: A Code-First Introduction to Natural Language Processing

Issue #5: June 2019

• Semantic Sanity

• ICML 2019: Thirty-sixth International Conference on Machine Learning

• Research: AI is a ‘welcome boost’ that could add millions to GDP

Issue #4: May 2019

• Expanded dataset: More MNIST examples

• Facebook upgraded its AI services

• G-7 Science Academies release statements on AI

• ML algorithm predicts heart attacks with 90% accuracy

Issue #3: April 2019

• Fooling automated surveillance cameras: adversarial patches to attack person detection

• Tesla Autonomy Day

• OpenAI Five defeats Dota 2 world champions @OGesports

• Ian Goodfellow changes from Google Brain to Apple

Issue #2: March 2019

• Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award

• NVIDIA introduces the Jetson Nano - a small AI computer

• OpenAI changes from non-profit to for-profit

• TensorFlow 2.0 Alpha release

• GauGans tool turns doodles into photorealistic landscapes

• New to Microsoft 365: A nice ML use case for data entry

• Google open sourced GPipe

• OpenAI released Activation Atlas

Issue #1: February 2019

• Coursera: Andrew Ng launched AI for Everyone

• DeepMind: ML can increase the value of wind energy

• Lingvo: TF framework for sequence modeling tasks open sourced