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

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