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Google Cloud Healthcare API Now Generally Available
In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability of its Cloud Healthcare API. This service facilitates the exchange of healthcare data between solutions built on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and applications.
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OpenAI Introduces Microscope, Visualizations for Understanding Neural Networks
OpenAI has released Microscope, a collection of visualizations of every significant layer and neuron of eight leading computer vision (CV) models which are often studied in interpretability. The tool helps researchers analyze the features and other important attributes which form inside of the neural networks powering these CV models.
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Audi Releases Autonomous Driving Dataset
Researchers at Audi have released the Audi Autonomous Driving Dataset (A2D2) for developing self-driving cars. The dataset includes camera images, lidar point clouds, and vehicle control information, and over 40,000 frames have been segmented and labelled for use in supervised learning. The dataset can be used for commercial purposes.
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KSQL Now Available on Confluent Cloud
KSQL is the streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka, and it is currently available as a fully-managed service on the Confluent Cloud Platform for all its customers on usage-based billing plans. In a recent blog post, Confluent announced the availability of Confluent Cloud KSQL.
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OpenAI Approximates Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
Artificial intelligence company OpenAI studies empirical scaling laws for language models using cross entropy loss to determine the optimal allocation of a fixed compute budget.
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Microsoft and Google Release New Benchmarks for Cross-Language AI Tasks
Research teams at Microsoft Research and Google AI have announced new benchmarks for cross-language natural-language understanding (NLU) tasks for AI systems, including named-entity recognition and question answering. Google's XTREME covers 40 languages and includes nine tasks, while Microsoft's XGLUE covers 27 languages and eleven tasks.
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Google Releases Quantization Aware Training for TensorFlow Model Optimization
Google announced the release of the Quantization Aware Training (QAT) API for their TensorFlow Model Optimization Toolkit. QAT simulates low-precision hardware during the neural-network training process, adding the quantization error into the overall network loss metric, which causes the training process to minimize the effects of post-training quantization.
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ExBERT, a Tool for Exploring Learned Representations in NLP Models
MIT-IBM AI Labs and Harvard NLP Group have released a live demo of their interactive visualization tool for exploring learned representations in Transformers models called exBERT, along with a pre-publication and the source-code.
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Amazon Announces General Availability of AWS Deepcomposer
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of Deepcomposer, a service in AWS, which provides developers with a creative way to learn Machine Learning (ML). Deepcomposer is a machine learning-enabled keyboard for developers, and is available for purchase.
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COVID-19 and AI: Virtual Conference at Stanford Discusses the Future
The Stanford Institute For Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence approaches COVID-19 from a wide variety of perspectives.
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Google's SEED RL Achieves 80x Speedup of Reinforcement-Learning
Researchers at Google Brain recently open-sourced their Scalable, Efficient Deep-RL (SEED RL) algorithm for AI reinforcement-learning. SEED RL is a distributed architecture that achieves state-of-the-art results on several RL benchmarks at lower cost and up to 80x faster than previous systems.
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Uber AI Introduce Fiber, a New Library for Distributed Machine Learning
Uber AI has open-sourced Fiber, a new library which aims to empower users in implementing large-scale machine learning computation on computer clusters. The main objectives of the library are to leverage heterogeneous computing hardware, dynamically scale algorithms, and reduce the burden on engineers implementing complex algorithms on clusters.
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AlphaFold Algorithm Predicts COVID-19 Protein Structures
DeepMind uses AlphaFold to predict 3D protein structures straight from amino acid sequences for novel coronavirus 2019 (NCOVID-2019).
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Google Introduces TensorFlow Developer Certification
Google has launched a certification program for its deep-learning framework TensorFlow. The certification exam is administered using a PyCharm IDE plugin, and candidates who pass can be listed in Google's world-wide Certification Directory.
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Data Science Community Reacts to COVID-19 Pandemic
The data science community has reacted with fervor to the COVID-19 pandemic, with numerous articles from a data-oriented perspective and both official and grassroot efforts to provide access to data and utilize ML techniques to help deal with the crises across industry, academia and governmental organizations worldwide.