Harry Shum: Tsinghua University’s Harry Shum on how AI is changing creativity
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Harry Shum: Tsinghua University’s Harry Shum on how AI is changing creativity

In 2021, I envision that the AI community will create more tools to unleash human creativity. AI will help people across the globe to communicate and express emotions and moods in their own unique ways.

December 30, 20202 min read
Harry Shum: Tsinghua University’s Harry Shum on how AI is changing creativity
New Year

Harry Shum: Tsinghua University’s Harry Shum on how AI is changing creativity

In 2021, I envision that the AI community will create more tools to unleash human creativity. AI will help people across the globe to communicate and express emotions and moods in their own unique ways.

December 30, 20202 min read
Matthew Mattina: Arm research leader explains how TinyML is bringing AI to phones and other edge devices
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Matthew Mattina: Arm research leader explains how TinyML is bringing AI to phones and other edge devices

Look at the tip of a standard #2 pencil. Now, imagine performing over one trillion multiplication operations in the area of that pencil tip every second. This can be accomplished using today’s 7nm semiconductor technology.

December 30, 20202 min read
Matthew Mattina: Arm research leader explains how TinyML is bringing AI to phones and other edge devices
New Year

Matthew Mattina: Arm research leader explains how TinyML is bringing AI to phones and other edge devices

Look at the tip of a standard #2 pencil. Now, imagine performing over one trillion multiplication operations in the area of that pencil tip every second. This can be accomplished using today’s 7nm semiconductor technology.

December 30, 20202 min read
Stanford professor Fei-Fei on how a national research cloud would boost AI
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Stanford professor Fei-Fei on how a national research cloud would boost AI

The United States has been a leader in science and technology for decades, and all nations have benefitted from its innovations. But U.S. leadership in AI is not guaranteed.

December 30, 20202 min read
Stanford professor Fei-Fei on how a national research cloud would boost AI
New Year

Stanford professor Fei-Fei on how a national research cloud would boost AI

The United States has been a leader in science and technology for decades, and all nations have benefitted from its innovations. But U.S. leadership in AI is not guaranteed.

December 30, 20202 min read
Ayanna Howard: How to teach ethics to the next generation of AI builders
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Ayanna Howard: How to teach ethics to the next generation of AI builders

As AI engineers, we have tools to design and build any technology-based solution we can dream of. But many AI developers don’t consider it their responsibility to address potential negative consequences as a part of this work.

December 30, 20202 min read
Ayanna Howard: How to teach ethics to the next generation of AI builders
New Year

Ayanna Howard: How to teach ethics to the next generation of AI builders

As AI engineers, we have tools to design and build any technology-based solution we can dream of. But many AI developers don’t consider it their responsibility to address potential negative consequences as a part of this work.

December 30, 20202 min read
Dawn Song — Taking Responsibility for Data: The importance of a responsible data economy
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Dawn Song — Taking Responsibility for Data: The importance of a responsible data economy

Datasets are critical to AI and machine learning, and they are becoming a key driver of the economy. Collection of sensitive data is increasing rapidly, covering almost every aspect of people’s lives.

January 1, 20202 min read
Dawn Song — Taking Responsibility for Data: The importance of a responsible data economy
New Year

Dawn Song — Taking Responsibility for Data: The importance of a responsible data economy

Datasets are critical to AI and machine learning, and they are becoming a key driver of the economy. Collection of sensitive data is increasing rapidly, covering almost every aspect of people’s lives.

January 1, 20202 min read
Richard Socher — Boiling the Information Ocean: Using AI summarization to help with information overload
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Richard Socher — Boiling the Information Ocean: Using AI summarization to help with information overload

Ignorance is a choice in the Internet age. Virtually all of human knowledge is available for the cost of typing a few words into a search box.

January 1, 20202 min read
Richard Socher — Boiling the Information Ocean: Using AI summarization to help with information overload
New Year

Richard Socher — Boiling the Information Ocean: Using AI summarization to help with information overload

Ignorance is a choice in the Internet age. Virtually all of human knowledge is available for the cost of typing a few words into a search box.

January 1, 20202 min read
David Patterson — Faster Training and Inference: Using MLPerf to test new AI hardware
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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.

January 1, 20201 min read
David Patterson — Faster Training and Inference: Using MLPerf to test new AI hardware
New Year

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.

January 1, 20201 min read
Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI
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Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI

Artificial intelligence has moved from the age of discovery to the age of implementation. Among our invested portfolios, primarily in China, we see flourishing applications using AI and automation in banking, finance, transportation, logistics, supermarkets, restaurants, warehouses, factories...

January 1, 20201 min read

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