"There is no better place to explore the overlap between machine learning and computational neuroscience than the annual NeurIPS event," said Yoshihisa Yamamoto, PHI Lab Director. "We are excited to see the latest paper by Dr. Tanaka and his Stanford colleagues, as well as those by our colleagues at the NTT Software Innovation Center and NTT Communication Science Laboratories and expect the fields of neural networking and machine learning will benefit from the efficiencies and expanded capabilities that they are proposing." This year's seven-day virtual NeurIPS event includes an expo, conference sessions, tutorials and workshops. The authors of these papers will participate in the event through poster and short recorded presentations. A follow-up to the "Pruning Neural Networks" paper, as noted above, will be presented at one of the event's workshops.

Google employees who worked with Timnit Gebru are coming out publicly to dispute claims against the star AI ethics researcher. On Monday, the team published a letter on the Google Walkout Medium account firmly stating that Gebru was fired and did not resign as Google's head of artificial intelligence, Jeff Dean, said. They also said the publication review policy that Gebru was supposed to follow was applied "unevenly and discriminatorily." Gebru's dismissal has been framed as a resignation, but in Dr. Gebru's own words, she did not resign," the letter says. It notes that Gebru asked for certain conditions to be met in order for her to stay at Google, including transparency around who wanted her paper retracted.

It's hard to imagine Apple and Google playing nice on a device, but that can be the case starting today. That is, for music streaming, anyway. Google announced today that Apple Music is now rolling out to Assistant-enabled speakers and displays like the Nest Audio, Nest Hub Max, Nest Mini and more. Apple Music subscribers can ask the Assistant to find and play your songs, albums and playlists using their voice after they link their accounts in the Google Home app. You'll be able to set Apple Music as your default music streaming service, and then when you ask your speaker to "play K-Pop Hits playlist," it will stream from Apple's library.

Moody's Analytics has won Best AI Technology Initiative at the 2020 American Financial Technology Awards. We earned this award for our QUIQspread solution, which helps financial institutions automate the spreading of financial statements. This press release features multimedia. Every bank has its own unique lending criteria. But all banks start the loan origination review process by gathering and standardizing the loan recipient's financial records, a process known as financial spreading.

We present iGibson, a novel simulation environment to develop robotic solutions for interactive tasks in large-scale realistic scenes. Our environment contains fifteen fully interactive home-sized scenes populated with rigid and articulated objects. The scenes are replicas of 3D scanned real-world homes, aligning the distribution of objects and layout to that of the real world. iGibson integrates several key features to facilitate the study of interactive tasks: i) generation of high-quality visual virtual sensor signals (RGB, depth, segmentation, LiDAR, flow, among others), ii) domain randomization to change the materials of the objects (both visual texture and dynamics) and/or their shapes, iii) integrated sampling-based motion planners to generate collision-free trajectories for robot bases and arms, and iv) intuitive human-iGibson interface that enables efficient collection of human demonstrations. Through experiments, we show that the full interactivity of the scenes enables agents to learn useful visual representations that accelerate the training of downstream manipulation tasks. We also show that iGibson features enable the generalization of navigation agents, and that the human-iGibson interface and integrated motion planners facilitate efficient imitation learning of simple human demonstrated behaviors. iGibson is open-sourced with comprehensive examples and documentation. For more information, visit our project website: http://svl.stanford.edu/igibson/

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Stradigi AI, a North American Artificial Intelligence software company, is pleased to announce that its cloud-based Kepler Platform is now offered on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace and optimised to run within Azure. Kepler utilises Microsoft compute, database, security, and Storage services. The ability to instantly activate Kepler through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace gives business users a way to automate AI across all functions and departments. AI projects can go into production in a matter of days and weeks vs. months to directly impact time to value and ROI. Stradigi AI also announced it has earned co-sell ready status through Microsoft One Commercial Partner program as a Microsoft Gold Partner with a competency in data analytics.

We are pleased to announce the launch of Python support for Amazon CodeGuru, a service for automated code reviews and application performance recommendations. CodeGuru is powered by program analysis and machine learning, and trained on best practices and hard-learned lessons across millions of code reviews and thousands of applications profiled on open-source projects and internally at Amazon. The launch of Python support extends CodeGuru beyond its original Java support. Python is a widely used language for various use cases, including web app development and DevOps. Python's growth in data analysis and machine learning areas is driven by its rich frameworks and libraries.

NEW YORK, NY -- December 4, 2020 -- IBTM announced today that CLIPr, a technology company that applies AI and machine learning to create searchable recaps of meetings and events, is a finalist of the organization's prestigious TechWatch Awards. Finalists will be presenting their technologies before a panel of judges during the 2020 IBTM World Virtual event, which is planned to run virtually December 8–10, 2020. IBTM World is the leading global event for the meetings, incentives, conferences and events (MICE) industry. The organization brings together people from all over the world who share the common vision that business results improve when the right connections are made. The annual event is organized by Reed Exhibitions, and like most events this year, was moved online due to the coronavirus.

Hong Kong (CNN Business)The world has been inching toward fully autonomous cars for years. In China, one company just got even closer to making it a reality. On Thursday, AutoX, an Alibaba (BABA)-backed startup, announced it had rolled out fully driverless robotaxis on public roads in Shenzhen. The company said it had become the first player in China to do so, notching an important industry milestone. Previously, companies operating autonomous shuttles on public roads in the country were constrained by strict caveats, which required them to have a safety driver inside.