Alibaba
Retailers Adjust to the Pandemic: How Chinese retailers used AI to rebound from Covid-19
Covid-19 wreaked havoc with models that predict retail sales — but China’s biggest annual e-commerce event showed that they’re back in business.
Alibaba
Deepfakes Are Heartless: AI detects deepfaked videos by their lack of heartbeat.
The incessant rhythm of a heartbeat could be the key to distinguishing real videos from deepfakes. DeepRhythm detects deepfakes using an approach inspired by the science of measuring minute changes on the skin’s surface due to blood circulation.
Alibaba
Deepfakes Are Heartless: AI detects deepfaked videos by their lack of heartbeat.
The incessant rhythm of a heartbeat could be the key to distinguishing real videos from deepfakes. DeepRhythm detects deepfakes using an approach inspired by the science of measuring minute changes on the skin’s surface due to blood circulation.
Alibaba
Preserving Detail in Image Inputs: Better image compression for computer vision datasets
Given real-world constraints on memory and processing time, images are often downsampled before they’re fed into a neural network. But the process removes fine details, and that degrades accuracy. A new technique squeezes images with less compromise.
Alibaba
Preserving Detail in Image Inputs: Better image compression for computer vision datasets
Given real-world constraints on memory and processing time, images are often downsampled before they’re fed into a neural network. But the process removes fine details, and that degrades accuracy. A new technique squeezes images with less compromise.
Alibaba
Tools For a Pandemic: Chinese tech giants provide resources for Covid research.
Chinese tech giants have opened their AI platforms to scientists fighting coronavirus. Alibaba Cloud and Baidu are offering a powerful weapon to life-science researchers working to stop the spread of the illness officially known as Covid-19: free access to their computing horsepower and tools.
Alibaba
Tools For a Pandemic: Chinese tech giants provide resources for Covid research.
Chinese tech giants have opened their AI platforms to scientists fighting coronavirus. Alibaba Cloud and Baidu are offering a powerful weapon to life-science researchers working to stop the spread of the illness officially known as Covid-19: free access to their computing horsepower and tools.
Alibaba
David Patterson — Faster Training and Inference: Using MLPerf to test new AI hardware
Billions of dollars invested to create novel AI hardware will bear their early fruit in 2020. Google unleashed a financial avalanche with its tensor processing unit in 2017.
Alibaba
David Patterson — Faster Training and Inference: Using MLPerf to test new AI hardware
Billions of dollars invested to create novel AI hardware will bear their early fruit in 2020. Google unleashed a financial avalanche with its tensor processing unit in 2017.
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