I will be resigning from Baidu, where I have been leading the company’s AI Group. Baidu’s AI is incredibly strong, and the team is stacked up and down with talent; I am confident AI at Baidu will… (more…)

A team of scientists at LMU Munich have developed Pattern-Exploiting Training (PET), a deep-learning training technique for natural language processing (NLP) models. Using PET, the team trained a Transformer NLP model with 223M parameters that out-perform... (more…)

Habana will remain an independent business unit in Israel and will continue to be led by its current management team. (more…)

A collaboration between researchers in China, Singapore and the US has produced a resilient system for ‘tagging’ face photos so robustly that the identifying markers are not destroyed during a deepfake training process, paving the way for IP claims that c... (more…)

A cross-party group of 40 MEPs in the European parliament has called on the Commission to strengthen an incoming legislative proposal on artificial intelligence to include an outright ban on the use of facial recognition and other forms of biometric surve... (more…)