Global Tech
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's Global Tech section.
Google's Birthday: Evolution of Google's Capability Over The Years
With a 23-year existence, the search behemoth has significantly impacted virtually every aspect of digital communication.
Dr. Nivash Jeevanandam ·
All About Google’s Latest Analytics Hub
It controls and monitors how the data is being used, and Google claims it to be its self-service way to access valuable and trusted data assets.
Avi Gopani ·
OpenAI Might Just Have Solved The Issue Of Faulty Reward Functions In the Wild
The human labellers supervise and evaluate the model’s output by the tool, even if they have not read the books themselves.
Avi Gopani ·
How I created An AutoML Library: Ram Seshadri From Google
“And it does it in a few minutes, versus the hours and days other libraries take on a real-world dataset.”
Avi Gopani ·
Google Releases Wikipedia-Based Image Text (WIT) Dataset
Wikimedia Research, in partnership with Google and other external collaborators, is hosting a competition with the WIT dataset in Kaggle.
Amit Naik ·
Facebook Introduces New Image Generation Model Called Instance-Conditioned GAN
IC-GAN can be used with both labelled and unlabelled datasets.
Amit Naik ·
Google Introduces New Architecture To Reduce Cost Of Transformers
Primer’s improvements can be attributed to two simple modifications -- squaring ReLU activations and adding a depthwise convolution layer after each Q, K, and V projection in self-attention.
Amit Naik ·
NVIDIA Hits Record-Setting Performance, Arm Debuts In Latest MLPerf v1.1
This is the first time the data-centre category tests have run on an Arm-based system.
Amit Naik ·
Facebook’s Content Moderators A Miss?
An investigative report suggests that Facebook has been used to recruit, train and pay hit-men by a Mexican drug cartel.
Debolina Biswas ·
Google Introduces Families of Neural Networks To Train Faster, SOTA Performance
In the future, we plan to optimise these models further and apply them to new tasks, such as zero-shot learning and self-supervised learning.
Amit Naik ·
Big Tech & Their Favourite Deep Learning Techniques
For instance, Facebook AI Research (FAIR) has been championing self-supervised learning (SSL) for quite some time.
Amit Naik ·
Is Apple Near Its Saturation Point In CPU Advancements?
One of the major reasons could be the exit of Gerard Williams, an ex-Apple employee and the chief CPU architect of the firm. In December 2019, Gerard co-founded his own processor-design firm - Nuvia, along with John Bruno and Manu Gulati.
kumar Gandharv ·
Former Google Exec Lists 4 Dangers Associated With AI
Former Google exec Kai-Fu Lee lists the top four risks associated with the use of AI.
Debolina Biswas ·
Amazon’s Use Of Algorithms To Increase Employees’ Productivity: Fair Or Not?
Amazon deploys data, surveillance and algorithms to accelerate the productivity of its warehouse workers. But how ethical is it?
Debolina Biswas ·
Inside Praneet Dutta’s ML Journey From Vellore To Google DeepMind
As a wide-eyed freshman, I was unsure if I wanted to pursue an engineering job post-graduation, let alone following a path in AI research.
kumar Gandharv ·
The Glasses War: Why Apple And Facebook Will Win Where Google Failed
Facebook recently partnered with Ray-Ban to launch smart glasses Stories, while Apple is gearing up to launch its smart wearable glasses.
Debolina Biswas ·
What to Expect At ‘NVIDIA GTC 2021?’
The event will include a keynote from NVIDIA CEO and founder Jensen Huang, alongside a wide variety of sessions and talks with luminaries around the world.
Amit Naik ·
After Amazon, Apple And Google, Facebook To Develop Its Own ML Chip
Facebook is building a machine learning chip to manage content recommendations for its users.
Debolina Biswas ·
A Future Where The Cost Of Intelligence & Energy Is Near-Zero, Predicts OpenAI’s Sam Altman
For some time now, intelligence and energy have been the fundamental limiters towards most things we want.
Amit Naik ·
Interview With Nitin Aggarwal, Technical PM At Google Cloud AI
I'm a senior Technical Program Manager(PM) with the Cloud AI services team. I lead teams to build products/solutions for our customers.
Ram Sagar ·