AI Expansion in UAE, Israel and South Korea
South Korea Aims High on AI, Pumps $2 Billion Into R&D
Eager to kickstart its AI industry, the nation of 52 million yesterday released an ambitious national plan to invest ₩2.2 trillion (US$2 billion) by 2020 to strengthen its AI R&D capability. The program includes the establishment of six new AI research institutes, JoongAng Ilbo reports.
Dropbox eyes security, machine learning technologies in Israel
U.S. file-sharing and storage company Dropbox plans to expand its development center in Tel Aviv by hiring more staff and looking out for potential partnerships and acquisition opportunities in security and machine-learning...
US Chipmaker Intel Submits Plans for $5 billion Israel Expansion
Intel is one of the biggest employers and exporters in Israel, where many of its new technologies are developed. The new investment will upgrade its Kiryat Gat manufacturing plant in southern Israel, the company said in a statement...
UAE implements 26 mechanisms to adopt AI
As part of the nation's AI strategy, these mechanisms include the recent launch of related academic programmes in the country's schools and universities...
Technology
SJTU Develops World's Largest 3D Photonic Quantum Chip
And their study "Experimental Two-dimensional Quantum Walk on a Photonic Chip" has been published on the open-access scientific journal Science Advances, and is regarded as a huge boost to quantum simulation...
Universal Language Model Fine-tuning for Text Classification
Fast.ai propose Universal Language Model Fine-tuning (ULMFiT), an effective transfer learning method that can be applied to any task in NLP, and introduce techniques that are key for fine-tuning a language model...
AI and Compute
OpenAI's analysis showing that the amount of compute used in the largest AI training runs has had a doubling period of 3.5 months since 2012 (net increase of 300,000x):...
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Alphabet Chairman: Google Duplex Passes the Turing Test "In a Limited Domain"
"In the domain of making appointments, it passes the Turing test, which is an extraordinary breakthrough. It doesn't pass it in the general terms, but it passes it in a very limited domain, and that's really an indication of what's coming," said John Hennessy...
Global AI Events
| 19-21 May | ICMLT 2018 | Jinan, China |
| 20-24 May | Data Disrupt | New York, USA |
| 21-25 May | ICRA | Brisbane, Australia |
| 21-24 May | O’Reilly Strata Data Conference | London, UK |
| 21–24 May | Chief Analytics Officer Spring. | San Francisco, USA |
| 22–24 May | Data Summit | Boston, USA |
| 22–23 May | Gartner Data & Analytics Summit | São Paulo, Brazil |
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.
Brain Corp is looking for ML Engineer, Robotics Software Engineer/Architect and Electrical Engineer in San Diego, CA.
Cerebras System needs ML Scientist, Parallel/Distributed Algorithms Engineer and Data Scientist in Silicon Valley.
Tempus Lab is hiring full time and summer intern Natural Language Processing Data Scientist in Chicago, IL.
CognitiveScale wants Machine Learning Engineer, Solution Architect and Software Engineer to join them in Austin and London.
