Happy AI New Year! Global Researchers Reflect on 2019, Talk Trends for 2020

The year 2019 saw unprecedented growth in AI research, development and deployment. Great technical progress has been achieved in image recognition, image generation, natural language understanding and other fields; while challenges remain with data management, efficiency measurement, computational capacity and other issues. To welcome 2020 with some fresh AI perspectives, Synced spoke with global researchers from Google Brain, Sony AI, Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial (formerly known as Alipay), Israel-based AI processor company Habana (recently acquired by Intel), Russian tech giant Yandex, Vietnam's newly established research lab VinAI Research, French deep learning inference acceleration startup Mipsology, and China-based remote sensing data platform TerraQuanta. Colin Raffel, Senior Research Scientist, Google Brain In 2019 the community made huge progress on learning from limited labels. MixMatch, UDA, S4L, and ReMixMatch produced huge gains on standard semi-supervised learning benchmarks.