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Mobile Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market to Generate Massive USD 29.34 billion by 2027 - Digital Journal
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AI 50 2021: America's Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies
The Covid-19 pandemic was devastating for many industries, but it only accelerated the use of artificial intelligence across the U.S. economy. Amid the crisis, companies scrambled to create new services for remote workers and students, beef up online shopping and dining options, make customer call centers more efficient and speed development of important new drugs. Even as applications of machine learning and perception platforms become commonplace, a thick layer of hype and fuzzy jargon clings to AI-enabled software.That makes it tough to identify the most compelling companies in the space--especially those finding new ways to use AI that create value by making humans more efficient, not redundant. With this in mind, Forbes has partnered with venture firms Sequoia Capital and Meritech Capital to create our third annual AI 50, a list of private, promising North American companies that are using artificial intelligence in ways that are fundamental to their operations. To be considered, businesses must be privately-held and utilizing machine learning (where systems learn from data to improve on tasks), natural language processing (which enables programs to "understand" written or spoken language) or computer vision (which relates to how machines "see"). AI companies incubated at, largely funded through or acquired by large tech, manufacturing or industrial firms aren't eligible for consideration. Our list was compiled through a submission process open to any AI company in the U.S. and Canada. The application asked companies to provide details on their technology, business model, customers and financials like funding, valuation and revenue history (companies had the option to submit information confidentially, to encourage greater transparency). Forbes received several hundred entries, of which nearly 400 qualified for consideration. From there, our data partners applied an algorithm to identify 100 companies with the highest quantitative scores--and that also made diversity a priority. Next, a panel of expert AI judges evaluated the finalists to find the 50 most compelling companies (they were precluded from judging companies in which they have a vested interest). Among trends this year are what Sequoia Capital's Konstantine Buhler calls AI workbench companies--building of platforms tailored to different enterprises, including Dataiku, DataRobot Domino Data and Databricks.
Context-self contrastive pretraining for crop type semantic segmentation
Tarasiou, Michail, Guler, Riza Alp, Zafeiriou, Stefanos
In this paper, we propose a fully supervised pre-training scheme based on contrastive learning particularly tailored to dense classification tasks. The proposed Context-Self Contrastive Loss (CSCL) learns an embedding space that makes semantic boundaries pop-up by use of a similarity metric between every location in a training sample and its local context. For crop type semantic segmentation from Satellite Image Time Series (SITS) we find performance at parcel boundaries to be a critical bottleneck and explain how CSCL tackles the underlying cause of that problem, improving the state-of-the-art performance in this task. Additionally, using images from the Sentinel-2 (S2) satellite missions we compile the largest, to our knowledge, SITS dataset densely annotated by crop type and parcel identities, which we make publicly available together with the data generation pipeline. Using that data we find CSCL, even with minimal pre-training, to improve all respective baselines and present a process for semantic segmentation at super-resolution for obtaining crop classes at a more granular level. The code and instructions to download the data can be found in https://github.com/michaeltrs/DeepSatModels.
The Web Is Your Oyster -- Knowledge-Intensive NLP against a Very Large Web Corpus
Piktus, Aleksandra, Petroni, Fabio, Karpukhin, Vladimir, Okhonko, Dmytro, Broscheit, Samuel, Izacard, Gautier, Lewis, Patrick, Oğuz, Barlas, Grave, Edouard, Yih, Wen-tau, Riedel, Sebastian
In order to address the increasing demands of real-world applications, the research for knowledge-intensive NLP (KI-NLP) should advance by capturing the challenges of a truly open-domain environment: web scale knowledge, lack of structure, inconsistent quality, and noise. To this end, we propose a new setup for evaluating existing KI-NLP tasks in which we generalize the background corpus to a universal web snapshot. We repurpose KILT, a standard KI-NLP benchmark initially developed for Wikipedia, and ask systems to use a subset of CCNet - the Sphere corpus - as a knowledge source. In contrast to Wikipedia, Sphere is orders of magnitude larger and better reflects the full diversity of knowledge on the Internet. We find that despite potential gaps of coverage, challenges of scale, lack of structure and lower quality, retrieval from Sphere enables a state-of-the-art retrieve-and-read system to match and even outperform Wikipedia-based models on several KILT tasks - even if we aggressively filter content that looks like Wikipedia. We also observe that while a single dense passage index over Wikipedia can outperform a sparse BM25 version, on Sphere this is not yet possible. To facilitate further research into this area, and minimise the community's reliance on proprietary black box search engines, we will share our indices, evaluation metrics and infrastructure.
Time-Aware Neighbor Sampling for Temporal Graph Networks
Wang, Yiwei, Cai, Yujun, Liang, Yuxuan, Ding, Henghui, Wang, Changhu, Hooi, Bryan
We present a new neighbor sampling method on temporal graphs. In a temporal graph, predicting different nodes' time-varying properties can require the receptive neighborhood of various temporal scales. In this work, we propose the TNS (Time-aware Neighbor Sampling) method: TNS learns from temporal information to provide an adaptive receptive neighborhood for every node at any time. Learning how to sample neighbors is non-trivial, since the neighbor indices in time order are discrete and not differentiable. To address this challenge, we transform neighbor indices from discrete values to continuous ones by interpolating the neighbors' messages. TNS can be flexibly incorporated into popular temporal graph networks to improve their effectiveness without increasing their time complexity. TNS can be trained in an end-to-end manner. It needs no extra supervision and is automatically and implicitly guided to sample the neighbors that are most beneficial for prediction. Empirical results on multiple standard datasets show that TNS yields significant gains on edge prediction and node classification.
The Dark Matter of AI: Common Sense Is Not So Common - Liwaiwai
"COMMON SENSE" is the Dark Matter of Artificial Intelligence. In the present era of Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, advanced quantum computing, we humans are literally surrounded by machines, everywhere, everyday. Many critics point to Artificial Intelligence as the main threat to humankind; while on the other hand, the supporters of AI claim that humans can never be replaced by machines, and would only ever compliment our abilities. Over the past decade, Artificial Intelligence has undoubtedly emerged as one of the technological successes and with the amount of research and investment going into this domain, it is nowhere near an end. AI has impacted our lives greatly, with so many services and products relying on it that it is irrevocably connected with our everyday world.
Voice technology for rest of world
Voice-enabled technologies like Siri have gone from a novelty to a routine way to interact with technology in the past decade. In the coming years, our devices will only get chattier as the market for voice-enabled apps, technologies and services continues to expand. But the growth of voice-enabled technology is not universal. For much of the world, technology remains frustratingly silent. "Speech is a natural way for people to interact with devices, but we haven't realized the full potential of that yet because so much of the world is shut out from these technologies," said Mark Mazumder, a Ph.D. student at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
The people vs AI: can a machine own intellectual property? - Raconteur
It may be smart, but it's not that clever. Artificial intelligence is nothing without human input. The algorithms that drive AI rely on the expertise of programmers and it's still no more than a tool – albeit a powerful one – that scientists and engineers can use to solve problems. Yet this is not to say that AI isn't the fastest-growing deep technology in the world, with the potential to transform people's lives and boost nations' economies. Facilitating AI innovation has even become a priority for the UK government, as laid out in the National AI Strategy it published in September.
Spot the difference: Can AI generate plausible Christmas BMJ titles?
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology can generate plausible, entertaining, and scientifically interesting titles for potential research articles, finds a study in the Christmas issue of The BMJ. A study of The BMJ's most popular Christmas research articles--which combine evidence based science with light hearted or quirky themes--finds that AI generated titles were as attractive to readers but that, as in other areas of medicine, performance was enhanced by human input. As such, the researchers say AI could have a role in generating hypotheses or directions for future research. AI is already used to help doctors diagnose conditions, based on the idea that computer systems can learn from data and identify patterns. But can AI be used to generate worthwhile hypotheses for medical research?