News by Dmytro Spodarets
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A new artificial intelligence model that can translate about 200 languages
Technology is now available to more people - the latest AI model, NLLB-200 can translate 200 different languages with an average increase in translation quality of 44%. AI researchers created the No Language Left Behind (NLLB) program, which aims to develop high-quality machine translation capabilities for most of the world's languages. NLLB-200 models and the FLORES-200 dataset are now open to developers, along with code to train the model and code to recreate the training dataset. Also, gran
Jul 27, 2022
FIFA Announces New, AI-powered Offside Detection System for the 2022 World Cup
The world's largest international football governing body has announced that the 2022 World Cup in Qatar plans to use a semi-automated system that consists of a sensor in the ball that transmits its position on the field 500 times per second and 12 tracking cameras that use machine learning to track 29 points on the players' bodies. “Referees and assistant referees will still be responsible for the decision on the field”. It's just that this method will give referees more data to make good deci
Jul 25, 2022
The Ultimate Evolution of Software Development
Transforming the collective knowledge of developers globally in the advanced editor GitHub Copilot. So what can you get only for 10$? GitHub Copilot is a digital helper that is now available to all developers. It offers complete methods, boilerplate code, real unit tests, and complex algorithms. The mission is to build a technology to facilitate writing and completing the code. Copilot's team believes that programming with Copilot will change the nature of software development. As a result, giv
Jul 21, 2022
NVIDIA 3D MoMa: New Methods to Improvise with 3D Objects
At the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference in New Orleans, the NVIDIA 3D MoMa inverse rendering pipeline was unveiled with a video about jazz and its homeland. 0:00/1× David Luebke, vice president of graphics research at NVIDIA, described the novelty as "a GPU-accelerated, differentiated component that, through its rendering pipeline, harnesses the mechanisms of modern AI and the raw computing power of the NVIDIA GPU to quickly create 3D objects." Since game studios and other c
Jul 19, 2022
Artificial intelligence in Japan helps identify currents and bathers
It's happening during beach season. An artificial intelligence system sends alerts to lifeguards via smart watches to ensure Japanese surfers and sunbathers are safe on beaches. This artificial intelligence system helps identify rip currents, which are responsible for 60 percent of drowning deaths. According to the Lifeguard Association, a pole-mounted webcam detects rip currents and those who swim near them, and then immediately notifies lifeguards via a smartwatch. The images were also used
Jul 7, 2022
Video-based advance learning to play Minecraft (VPT)
Video Pre-Play Training (VPT) is a new semi-supervised simulation learning method that helps you leverage the wealth of unlabeled video data available on the Internet for learning. Based on this data, an IDM backward dynamics model is trained, which can be used to label vast amounts of online video data and learn how to act by behavioral cloning. The method is tested on Minecraft, which is one of the most actively played video games in the world. A trained behavioral cloning model ("basic VPT")
Jul 6, 2022
Rules for the use of artificial intelligence technology
The European Union is working on amendments to the Artificial Intelligence Act - it will regulate the use of AI detectors and ban polygraph systems at borders. This ban is just one of thousands of amendments to the Artificial Intelligence Act being considered by the EU officials and members of the European Parliament. Among those influencing changes to the Act are human rights activists, labor unions, and Google and Microsoft. They all want the AI Law to distinguish between creators of general-
Jul 4, 2022
Nvidia announced the transformation of data centers into AI factories
Nvidia reported a late series of hardware milestones and modernization to support advancing the company’s aspirations. The most important technology that will help implement Nvidia’s vision is the company’s Grace superchips. At Computex, Nvidia reported that various hardware vendors, including ASUS, Foxconn Industrial Internet, GIGABYTE, QCT, Supermicro and Wiwynn, will build Grace base systems that are supposed to start shipping in the first half of 2023. Grace superchip should be available i
Jun 3, 2022
Improvements of OpenAI with a New DALL-E Model
DALL-E 2 is a new model that can take complex enough prompts. It should comply and search for outputs which are likely to meet the user’s requirements out of multiple existing outputs. The most exciting part of this model is its leap towards a diffusion model, a type of image production that in the beginning looks like pure noise and changes the image over time, repeatedly creating it a little more like the image requested until there’s no noise left at all. OpenAI takes into account the risk
Jun 2, 2022
When Apple Made Him Go to the Office He Went to Google
Ian Goodfellow, one and only one who oversaw machine learning and artificial intelligence at Apple, simply left the company a few weeks ago, because of the lack of flexibility in its office policies. Goodfellow’s decision to start working for Google is a coup for the DeepMind division, which puts him on as an individual contributor. Ian is well known as one of the first machine learning researchers, and the move is a reunion of sorts. As of today, Goodfellow is the most senior employee known t
Jun 1, 2022
New Implementation of PyTorch Training for Mac
After a new PyTorch v1.12 release, creators and researchers can now benefit from Apple’s silicon GPUs to enable an essentially faster model training. They gain the ability to implement machine learning workflows like modeling and fine-tuning locally, right on their Macs. The MPS backend develops the PyTorch framework, providing scripts and capabilities to arrange and run operations on Mac. MPS improves compute performance with kernels that are fine-tuned for the unique characteristics of every
May 30, 2022
Resolving Math Olympiad Tasks
The program called statement curriculum learning [https://openai.com/blog/formal-math/] features the capabilities that enable manual collection of sets of declarations of different difficulty levels, where the most difficult statements are identical to the benchmark of their target. However, as demonstrated, a neural prover itself is fragile and can only prove a few of these statements. The company addresses the problem of a limitless action space obstacle by sampling actions from a language mo
Feb 23, 2022