Apple A13 Bionic VS Huawei Kirin 990 5G; Is $1 Billion AI Investment Not Enough?; R.I.P Python 2
AI Chip Duel: Apple A13 Bionic VS Huawei Kirin 990 5G
Manufactured with TSMC’s second-generation 7nm process, the new A13 Bionic packs 8.5 billion transistors, approximately 23 percent more than A12’s 6.9 billion. The A13 Bionic chipset will be embedded into Apple’s new iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max.
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Executives Say $1 Billion for AI Research Isn’t Enough
The announcement Tuesday of a nearly $1 billion federal commitment toward artificial-intelligence research drew a mixed response from business leaders who said the U.S. needs to do more to maintain a competitive edge in AI.
(The Wall Street Journal)
R.I.P. Python 2: October 16, 2000 — January 1, 2020
The development and maintenance team behind Python 2 has started the countdown to the end of the popular programming language. In an official statement released on python.org, the volunteer team that manages the programming language announced they will sunset Python 2 on January 1, 2020.
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Technology
On Extractive and Abstractive Neural Document Summarization with Transformer Language Models
“We present a method to produce abstractive summaries of long documents that exceed several thousand words via neural abstractive summarization. We perform a simple extractive step before generating a summary, which is then used to condition the transformer language model on relevant information before being tasked with generating a summary.” Note: The abstract above was generated by one of the models presented in this paper.
(Element AI & Montréal Institute for Learning Algorithms & Université de Montréal & École Polytechnique de Montréal & Canada CIFAR AI Chair)
DeepPrivacy: A Generative Adversarial Network for Face Anonymization
Researchers propose a novel generator architecture to anonymize faces, which ensures 100% removal of privacy-sensitive information in the original face. They also provide the FDF dataset, including 1.47M faces with a tight bounding box and keypoint annotation for each face.
(Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training by Reducing Internal Covariate Shift
Using an ensemble of batch-normalized networks, researchers improve upon the best published result on ImageNet classification: reaching 4.9% top-5 validation error (and 4.8% test error), exceeding the accuracy of human raters.
(Google)
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R.I.P. Python 2: October 16, 2000 — January 1, 2020
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