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Inside China's robotics revolution

The Guardian

An engineer at the AgiBot factory in Shanghai, China, where the 5,000th mass-produced humanoid robot had rolled off the production line. An engineer at the AgiBot factory in Shanghai, China, where the 5,000th mass-produced humanoid robot had rolled off the production line. How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots? C hen Liang, the founder of Guchi Robotics, an automation company headquartered in Shanghai, is a tall, heavy-set man in his mid-40s with square-rimmed glasses. His everyday manner is calm and understated, but when he is in his element - up close with the technology he builds, or in business meetings discussing the imminent replacement of human workers by robots - he wears an exuberant smile that brings to mind an intern on his first day at his dream job. Guchi makes the machines that install wheels, dashboards and windows for many of the top Chinese car brands, including BYD and Nio. He took the name from the Chinese word, "steadfast intelligence", though the fact that it sounded like an Italian luxury brand was not entirely unwelcome. For the better part of two decades, Chen has tried to solve what, to him, is an engineering problem: how to eliminate - or, in his view, liberate - as many workers in car factories as technologically possible. Late last year, I visited him at Guchi headquarters on the western outskirts of Shanghai. Next to the head office are several warehouses where Guchi's engineers tinker with robots to fit the specifications of their customers. Chen, an engineer by training, founded Guchi in 2019 with the aim of tackling the hardest automation task in the car factory: "final assembly", the last leg of production, when all the composite pieces - the dashboard, windows, wheels and seat cushions - come together. At present, his robots can mount wheels, dashboards and windows on to a car without any human intervention, but 80% of the final assembly, he estimates, has yet to be automated. That is what Chen has set his sights on. As in much of the world, AI has become part of everyday life in China . But what most excites Chinese politicians and industrialists are the strides being made in the field of robotics, which, when combined with advances in AI, could revolutionise the world of work.


China FM tells EU diplomats not to blame Beijing for bloc's problems

The Japan Times

China FM tells EU diplomats not to blame Beijing for bloc's problems Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi attends a bilateral meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Munich on Friday. Beijing - China's foreign minister told his French and German counterparts that Beijing was not to blame for Europe's economic and security problems as he pushed for more cooperation at a summit in Munich, a Foreign Ministry statement said Saturday. Wang Yi made the comments at a meeting with France's Jean-Noel Barrot and Germany's Johann Wadephul on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Friday. He sought to promote China as a reliable partner of the European Union at a time when the bloc is trying to reduce its dependence on both Beijing and an increasingly unpredictable Washington. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.


All-in on AI: what TikTok creator ByteDance did next

The Japan Times

Advertising promoting ByteDance's cloud and AI service platform Volcano Engine and chatbot Doubao hangs at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing on Feb. 5. | AFP-JIJI Beijing - After soaring to global attention with its hugely popular TikTok app, Chinese tech giant ByteDance is now positioning itself as a major player in the fast-evolving AI arena. While the Beijing-based company has been embroiled in a range of legal and privacy rows linked to the social media app for years, its team has been busy branching out developing new cutting-edge products. Among them is China's most popular artificial intelligence chatbot, Doubao, which has built up more than 100 million daily users since its inception in 2023. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever. By subscribing, you can help us get the story right.


AppendixofStylizedDialogueGenerationwith Multi-PassDualLearning

Neural Information Processing Systems

A.2 Datasets Table 5 shows the statistics of datasets, including the number of data and the average length of sentences. Similarly, "Tis" is topical word in the Shakespeareanplays. We compare baseline and many variant models of MPDL on TCFC dataset, the results are in Table 8. The supervised pipelined method, where the first model is to generate the response in styleS0 andthesecond model istotransfer itintotheresponse instyleS1 inasupervised manner (Pipeline). The non-parallel text transfer resources are easy to obtain.


StylizedDialogueGenerationwith Multi-PassDualLearning

Neural Information Processing Systems

Stylized dialogue generation, which aims to generate a given-style response for an input context, plays a vital role in intelligent dialogue systems.


GraphStochasticNeuralNetworksfor Semi-supervisedLearning: SupplementalMaterial

Neural Information Processing Systems

Let θ and φ denote the optimal parameters after model training. The detailed statistics of three datasets used in this paper are listed in Table 1. In this paper, when evaluating the performance in the standard experimental scenario and in the label-scarce scenario, we compare with six state-of-the-art baselines used for graph-based semisupervised learning. Three of them are deterministic GNN-based models, which are GCN [1], Graph Attention Networks(GAT)[2]andGraphSAGE[3]respectively.


GraphStochasticNeuralNetworksfor Semi-supervisedLearning

Neural Information Processing Systems

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable performance in the task of the semi-supervised node classification. However,most existing models learn a deterministic classification function, which lack sufficient flexibility to explore better choices in the presence of kinds of imperfect observed data such as the scarce labeled nodes and noisy graph structure.



QueryPose: SparseMulti-PersonPoseRegressionvia Spatial-AwarePart-LevelQuery

Neural Information Processing Systems

Thetwoindependent modelsleadtothenon-end-to-end pipeline, or called two-stage pipeline. Moreover, the human detector involves extra memory as well as computational cost. The bottom-up strategy [16, 17, 18, 19] uses the keypoint heatmap to locate all person keypoints at first and then assigns them to individuals via heuristic grouping process,asshowninFigure1(a).


Means

Neural Information Processing Systems

InBiauetal.(2008),theyemploy the randomized sketches method to project the data in Hilbert space so as to approximate kernel k-means. However, the data in Hilbert space are implicit and infinite-dimensional, and its sketch matrixisdenseandunstructured.