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Microsoft's AI model has outperformed humans in natural language understanding

Usama Jawad — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:48:01 +0000

Microsoft's DeBERTa model for natural language understanding has outperformed humans in SuperGLUE benchmarks, defeating Google's model which just set the previous record a couple of days ago too. Read more...

AstraZeneca uses PyTorch and Azure ML to speed up drug discovery

Hamza Jawad — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 16:30:01 +0000

The firm has introduced a new production use case for early drug discovery, utilizing the PyTorch framework alongside Microsoft's Azure Machine Learning to support the latest research. Read more...

Microsoft obtains exclusive license to OpenAI's GPT-3 language model

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 19:10:02 +0000

OpenAI has exclusively licensed the largest transformer model to date—GPT-3—to Microsoft. The latter will use GPT-3's NLG and NLP capabilities in building AI solutions for its customers. Read more...

IBM Watson integrated with ESPN Fantasy Football League to drive deeper engagement with fans

Ather Fawaz — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 06:28:01 +0000

By combing through troves of blogs, documents, and reviews, Trade Assistant with IBM Watson is designed to help you make more informed and unbiased decisions in ESPN Fantasy Football League. Read more...

LaBSE, a new language-agnostic embedding model, supports 109 languages with SOTA accuracy

Ather Fawaz — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 07:28:01 +0000

Language-agnostic BERT Sentence Embedding (LaBSE), is a multilingual BERT embedding model that supports language-agnostic cross-lingual sentence embeddings for 109 languages by combining MLM and TLM. Read more...

CIMON-2 successfully completes initial testing onboard the ISS

Ather Fawaz — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 11:18:01 +0000

CIMON-2, the AI-powered assistant onboard the International Space Station has successfully completed its initial testing, showing the ability to respond to a variety of tasks communicated verbally. Read more...

Microsoft builds the world's largest transformer-based language generation model

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:38:01 +0000

Boasting over 17 billion parameters and 78 transformer layers, Microsoft's new Turing Natural Language Generation model outperforms many state-of-the-art models available currently. Read more...

TextFooler tricks venerable NLP models like BERT into making wrong predictions

Ather Fawaz — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 07:08:01 +0000

Researchers at MIT have created a framework—TextFooler—that brought down the prediction accuracy of certain NLP models from 90% down to under 20% by simply using synonyms in place of certain words. Read more...

Huawei launches Ascend 910, the "world's most powerful" AI processor, and MindSpore

Hamza Jawad — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:17:47 +0000

Huawei claims that the Ascend 910 has more computing power than any other AI processor in the world. MindSpore is an AI computing framework announced alongside the aforementioned processor. Read more...

NVIDIA registers the world's quickest BERT training time and largest transformer-based model

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 21:32:02 +0000

The company's immensely powerful DGX SuperPOD trains BERT-Large in a record-breaking 53 minutes and trains GPT-2 8B, the world's largest transformer-based network, with 8.3 billion parameters. Read more...

Microsoft's new AI bot can draw whatever you tell it to

Hamza Jawad — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 19:16:01 +0000

Microsoft has created a new AI bot which apparently draws whatever it is told to. The company believes that the techniques used for text-to-image generation produce an image of a much higher quality. Read more...

Microsoft's AI can read a document and answer questions about it like a human

Usama Jawad — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:32:01 +0000

Microsoft has developed an AI that can comprehend documents and answer questions about them with almost human-level accuracy. Its findings are already being integrated with the Bing search engine. Read more...