Monthly Archives: June 2021
GitHub Copilot: Your AI pair programmer
GitHub Copilot uses OpenAI technology to suggest lines and functions, as well as ways to write tests, and discover new APIs. GitHub says it works bestl for JavaScript, Python, TypeScript, Go, and Ruby. The capability is powered by OpenAI Codex, which was trained on a large concentration of public source code, making it more powerful than GPT-3’s code generator. Read More
#devopsWhen you use Machine learning to print “Hello World”
Chinese Pilots Are Also Dueling With AI Opponents In Simulated Dogfights And Losing: Report
A recent Chinese state media report claims that pilots from the country’s air force have been losing a not insignificant amount of the time to artificial intelligence-driven opponents in simulated dogfights. This sounds reminiscent of the very public outcome of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s AlphaDogfight Trials last year, work that has since been leveraged in more advanced demonstrations. It also underscores the People’s Liberation Army’s growing interest and investment in the development of advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, generally. Read More
#china-ai, #dodForward Thinking on China and artificial intelligence with Jeffrey Ding
In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, host Michael Chui speaks with Jeffrey Ding, researcher and founder of the ChinAI Newsletter, about information asymmetry in artificial intelligence between China and the West. They cover why data may not be like oil, the Chinese industry adage on products, platforms, and standards, “unsexy AI,” and more.
An edited transcript of this episode follows. Subscribe to the series on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Read More
Ahead of ‘Dojo,’ Tesla Reveals Its Massive Precursor Supercomputer
In spring 2019, Tesla made cryptic reference to a project called Dojo, a “super-powerful training computer” for video data processing. Then, in summer 2020, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted: “Tesla is developing a [neural network] training computer called Dojo to process truly vast amounts of video data. It’s a beast! … A truly useful exaflop at de facto FP32.” Welcome to summer 2021 – it’s time for your annual Dojo update.
Well, sort of: instead of revealing the ins and outs of Dojo, Tesla instead opted to reveal a precursor cluster that the company estimates may be the fifth most-powerful supercomputer in the world. Read More
VideoGPT: Video Generation using VQ-VAE and Transformers
We present VideoGPT: a conceptually simple architecture for scaling likelihood based generative modeling to natural videos. VideoGPT uses VQ-VAE that learns down sampled discrete latent representations of a raw video by employing 3D convolutions and axial self-attention. A simple GPT-like architecture is then used to autoregressively model the discrete latents using spatio-temporal position encodings. Despite the simplicity in formulation and ease of training, our architecture is able to generate samples competitive with state-of-the-art GAN models for video generation on the BAIR Robot dataset, and generate high fidelity natural images from UCF-101 and Tumbler GIF Dataset (TGIF). We hope our proposed architecture serves as a reproducible reference for a minimalistic implementation of transformer based video generation models. Read More
First virtual student ‘enrolls’ at Tsinghua University
China’s Tsinghua University developed an “AI robot” virtual student that will start studying in the university’s computer laboratory. Introduced on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, the robot, Hua Zhibing, is based on the Wudao 2.0 deep learning model and has already attracted a following of over 2,000 followers. Read More
NVIDIA’s Canvas app turns doodles into AI-generated ‘photos’
NVIDIA has launched a new app you can use to paint life-like landscape images — even if you have zero artistic skills and a first grader can draw better than you. The new application is called Canvas, and it can turn childlike doodles and sketches into photorealistic landscape images in real time. It’s now available for download as a free beta, though you can only use it if your machine is equipped with an NVIDIA RTX GPU.
Canvas is powered by the GauGAN AI painting tool, which NVIDIA Research developed and trained using 5 million images. Read More
Rembrandt’s The Night Watch painting restored by AI
The missing edges of Rembrandt’s painting The Night Watch have been restored using artificial intelligence.
The canvas, created in 1642, was trimmed in 1715 to fit between two doors at Amsterdam’s city hall.
Since then, 60cm (2ft) from the left, 22cm from the top, 12cm from the bottom and 7cm from the right have been missing.
But computer software has now restored the full painting for the first time in 300 years. Read More
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