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China Chases Chatbots: Chinese tech companies race to cash in on ChatGPT fever.
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China Chases Chatbots: Chinese tech companies race to cash in on ChatGPT fever.

ChatGPT fever has reached China despite legal and technical barriers. Two months after its debut, ChatGPT is a viral sensation on Chinese social media, MIT Technology Review reported. Companies in that country are racing to cash in.

March 2, 20232 min read
China Chases Chatbots: Chinese tech companies race to cash in on ChatGPT fever.
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China Chases Chatbots: Chinese tech companies race to cash in on ChatGPT fever.

ChatGPT fever has reached China despite legal and technical barriers. Two months after its debut, ChatGPT is a viral sensation on Chinese social media, MIT Technology Review reported. Companies in that country are racing to cash in.

March 2, 20232 min read
Search War!: Google and Microsoft both announce AI-Powered search.
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Search War!: Google and Microsoft both announce AI-Powered search.

The long-dormant struggle to dominate the web-search business reignited in a display of AI-driven firepower — and hubris. Google and Microsoft announced competing upgrades powered by the latest generation of chatbots. Baidu, too, flexed its natural-language-processing muscles.

February 15, 20233 min read
Search War!: Google and Microsoft both announce AI-Powered search.
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Search War!: Google and Microsoft both announce AI-Powered search.

The long-dormant struggle to dominate the web-search business reignited in a display of AI-driven firepower — and hubris. Google and Microsoft announced competing upgrades powered by the latest generation of chatbots. Baidu, too, flexed its natural-language-processing muscles.

February 15, 20233 min read
Automating Mattes for Visual Effects: New ML Method Produces Image Mattes Easier
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Automating Mattes for Visual Effects: New ML Method Produces Image Mattes Easier

Researchers at Baidu introduced PP-Matting, an architecture that, given an image, estimates the transparency of pixels surrounding foreground objects to create mattes without requiring additional input.

September 21, 20223 min read
Automating Mattes for Visual Effects: New ML Method Produces Image Mattes Easier
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Automating Mattes for Visual Effects: New ML Method Produces Image Mattes Easier

Researchers at Baidu introduced PP-Matting, an architecture that, given an image, estimates the transparency of pixels surrounding foreground objects to create mattes without requiring additional input.

September 21, 20223 min read
Attention to Rows and Columns: Altering Transformers' Self-Attention Mechanism for Greater Efficiency
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Attention to Rows and Columns: Altering Transformers' Self-Attention Mechanism for Greater Efficiency

A new approach alters transformers' self-attention mechanism to balance computational efficiency with performance on vision tasks.

September 7, 20222 min read
Attention to Rows and Columns: Altering Transformers' Self-Attention Mechanism for Greater Efficiency
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Attention to Rows and Columns: Altering Transformers' Self-Attention Mechanism for Greater Efficiency

A new approach alters transformers' self-attention mechanism to balance computational efficiency with performance on vision tasks.

September 7, 20222 min read
What a Molecule’s Structure Reveals: Baidu Creates AI to Classify Molecular Properties
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What a Molecule’s Structure Reveals: Baidu Creates AI to Classify Molecular Properties

The authors trained a modified GNN on a dataset of 18 million molecules to find molecular properties.

August 24, 20222 min read
What a Molecule’s Structure Reveals: Baidu Creates AI to Classify Molecular Properties
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What a Molecule’s Structure Reveals: Baidu Creates AI to Classify Molecular Properties

The authors trained a modified GNN on a dataset of 18 million molecules to find molecular properties.

August 24, 20222 min read
Autonomy Becomes Autonomous: Beijing Allows Self-Driving Cars From Baidu and Pony
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Autonomy Becomes Autonomous: Beijing Allows Self-Driving Cars From Baidu and Pony

In Beijing, self-driving cars are rolling without a driver behind the wheel. China’s capital city authorized Pony.ai and Apollo Go, a Baidu subsidiary, to deploy self-driving taxis without a human in the driver’s seat.

May 4, 20221 min read
Autonomy Becomes Autonomous: Beijing Allows Self-Driving Cars From Baidu and Pony
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Autonomy Becomes Autonomous: Beijing Allows Self-Driving Cars From Baidu and Pony

In Beijing, self-driving cars are rolling without a driver behind the wheel. China’s capital city authorized Pony.ai and Apollo Go, a Baidu subsidiary, to deploy self-driving taxis without a human in the driver’s seat.

May 4, 20221 min read
Different Strokes for Robot Folks: Transformer-Based Image Generator Imitates Painters
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Different Strokes for Robot Folks: Transformer-Based Image Generator Imitates Painters

A neural network can make a photo resemble a painting via neural style transfer, but it can also learn to reproduce an image by applying brush strokes. A new method taught a system this painterly skill without any training data.

October 20, 20212 min read
Different Strokes for Robot Folks: Transformer-Based Image Generator Imitates Painters
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Different Strokes for Robot Folks: Transformer-Based Image Generator Imitates Painters

A neural network can make a photo resemble a painting via neural style transfer, but it can also learn to reproduce an image by applying brush strokes. A new method taught a system this painterly skill without any training data.

October 20, 20212 min read
AI Engineers Weigh In on AI Ethics: Survey Shows How AI Engineers Feel About Ethical Issues
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AI Engineers Weigh In on AI Ethics: Survey Shows How AI Engineers Feel About Ethical Issues

Machine learning researchers tend to trust international organizations, distrust military forces, and disagree on how much disclosure is necessary when describing new models, a new study found.

September 15, 20212 min read

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