AI Digest: Monthly updates on AI and ML topics

Issue #20: February 2021

• CVPR 2021 Workshops

Issue #19: January 2021

• Visdom: a data visualization tool
• Objectron Dataset
• JupyterLab 3.0 is released

Issue #18: December 2020

• Robustness Metrics
• DeiT: Data-efficient image Transformers
• AI Debate 2: Moving AI Forward
• Mementor
• NVIDIA Inception Alliance with GE Healthcare and Nuance

Issue #17: November 2020

• AlphaFold-2
• NeurIPS Meetup Japan 2020
• Grad SLAM
• The Language Interpretability Tool (LIT)
• Image Expert Models
• MinDiff Framework
• Apple M1 chip

Issue #16: October 2020

• Papers with Code & Arxiv partnership
• VLFeat Library gets an award
• M2M-100 — multilingual machine translation
• TensorSensor
• NVIDIA Maxine
• NeurIPS 2020 Accepted Papers

Issue #15: September 2020

• NVIDIA to acquire Arm
• Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Specialization
• GeForce RTX 30 Series
• NLP Specialization — Attention Models

Issue #14: August 2020

• TensorFlow Lite Micro support on the ESP32
• TF-Coder
• Objax: a new high-level JAX API
• Apple's AI/ML residency program
• Semantic MapNet
• Danfo.js: a Pandas-like Library in JavaScript
• ECCV 2020 Conference
• Model Card Toolkit for Easier Model Transparency Reporting
• Real World Reinforcement Learning (RWRL) simulation suite
• Google offers career certificates equivalent to 4-year degrees

Issue #13: July 2020

• IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award 2021
• GPT-3 codes up a website for you
• ICML 2020 Outstanding Paper Awards
• CVPR, ICCV, WACV videos
• ACL 2020 Best Paper Award
• Deep Learning with PyTorch
• MIT takes down Tiny Images dataset due to offensive content
• International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science

Issue #12: June 2020

• Keen: Machine Learning based version of Pinterest
• The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI)
• CVPR 2020 (virtual)
• NeurIPS 2020 fully virtual
• ICML 2020 Accepted Papers
• NeurIPS 2020 Competitions

Issue #11: May 2020

• New Raspberry PI device released
• GameGAN: NVIDIA recreates PAC-MAN
• ACL 2020 announced accepted papers
• NVIDIA released a new GPU: A100
• Hugging Face models' performance visualization
• The Big Bad NLP Database
• OSS release of pytorch-pfn-extras
• New website for Keras has been launched
• Reinforcement Learning with Augmented Data (RAD)
• CNN Explainer

Issue #10: April 2020

• Facebook AI releases Blender
• Virtual ICLR 2020
• Facebook and AWS introduce TorchServe
• PyTorch v1.5 release
• MONAI: An Open Source AI Framework for Healthcare Research
• The AI For Medicine Specialization
• OpenAI Microscope
• We lost John Horton Conway
• ML Code Completeness Checklist
• Image Matching Benchmark and Challenge
• Waymo: Automated Data Augmentation
• ACM Prize in Computing Awarded to AlphaGo Lead David Silver

Issue #9: March 2020

• Keras turned 5
• Facebook releases SynSin
• Turing Award 2019 winners: Patrick M. Hanrahan and Edwin E. Catmull
• NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis
• Stanford NLP Group releases Stanza
• Google announced TensorFlow Developer Certificate
• ICLR 2020 as a fully virtual conference due to the coronavirus spreading
• Google announced TensorFlow Quantum: An Open Source Library for Quantum Machine Learning
• Researchers from Microsoft have created AI ethics checklist with nearly 50 engineers from a dozen tech companies
• Google announced a new neural-network library: Neural Tangents

Issue #8: February 2020

• Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio have been invited to AAAI-2020 conference to give a talk
• Powerful antibiotic discovered using machine learning for first time

Issue #7: August 2019

• OpenAI releases GPT-2 774M parameter model
• TF 2.0 is now available

Issue #6: July 2019

• GPT-2 and BERT on-device with Swift and CoreML
• Microsoft invests $1B in OpenAI
• pip install pytorch-transformers
• ICLR 2020 First Call for Papers
• Google ML Summit in Tokyo
• New fast.ai course: A Code-First Introduction to Natural Language Processing

Issue #5: June 2019

• Semantic Sanity
• ICML 2019: Thirty-sixth International Conference on Machine Learning
• Research: AI is a ‘welcome boost’ that could add millions to GDP

Issue #4: May 2019

• Expanded dataset: More MNIST examples
• Facebook upgraded its AI services
• G-7 Science Academies release statements on AI
• ML algorithm predicts heart attacks with 90% accuracy

Issue #3: April 2019

• Fooling automated surveillance cameras: adversarial patches to attack person detection
• Tesla Autonomy Day
• OpenAI Five defeats Dota 2 world champions @OGesports
• Ian Goodfellow changes from Google Brain to Apple

Issue #2: March 2019

• Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award
• NVIDIA introduces the Jetson Nano - a small AI computer
• OpenAI changes from non-profit to for-profit
• TensorFlow 2.0 Alpha release
• GauGans tool turns doodles into photorealistic landscapes
• New to Microsoft 365: A nice ML use case for data entry
• Google open sourced GPipe
• OpenAI released Activation Atlas

Issue #1: February 2019

• Coursera: Andrew Ng launched AI for Everyone
• DeepMind: ML can increase the value of wind energy
• Lingvo: TF framework for sequence modeling tasks open sourced