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AI Conference Recap: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Others at ACL 2020
At the recent Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), research teams from several tech companies, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Salesforce presented nearly 200 papers out of a total of 779 on a wide variety of AI topics related to Natural Language Processing (NLP).
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Twitter Hack Was Inside Job
Yesterday, a number of tweets were posted from a number of high profile accounts advertising a 2-for-1 scam on Bitcoin. What happened and why? InfoQ investigates.
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Refactoring Large Haskell Codebases Using Facebook Retrie
Facebook has open-sourced the tool they use to refactor their own Sigma anti-abuse rule engine. Named Retrie, this tool allows developers to describe rewrites as equations in Haskell syntax rather than regular expressions.
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Facebook Announces TransCoder AI to Translate Code across Programming Languages
Facebook AI Research has announced TransCoder, a system that uses unsupervised deep-learning to convert code from one programming language to another. TransCoder was trained on more than 2.8 million open source projects and outperforms existing code translation systems that use rule-based methods.
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Facebook's Vision for the Future of Work
In a recent article, Facebook showcased various technologies it has been developing to transform the way people interact and communicate. They also have the ability to unleash a radical change in the way people work together, the company
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Data Fetching Patterns for a Better User Experience - Joe Savona at React Conf
Joe Savona explored at React Conf some of the ways Relay and Suspense can help improve the user loading experience and the best practices that have been identified in production for using Suspense for data-fetching.
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Blender, Facebook State-of-the-Art Human-Like Chatbot, Now Open Source
Blender is an open-domain chatbot developed at Facebook AI Research (FAIR), Facebook’s AI and machine learning division. According to FAIR, it is the first chatbot that has learned to blend several conversation skills, including the ability to show empathy and discuss nearly any topic, beating Google's chatbot in tests with human evaluators.
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Facebook Introduces Rome Experimental JavaScript Toolchain
Rome is an experimental JavaScript toolchain created by Babel and yarn creator Sebastian McKenzie and the React Native team at Facebook. Rome includes a compiler, linter, formatter, bundler, and testing framework, aiming to be "a comprehensive tool for anything related to the processing of JavaScript source code."
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Facebook’s Switch from ntpd to chrony for a More Accurate, Scalable NTP Service
Facebook's engineering team wrote about their approach on how they built a more accurate and scalable Network Time Protocol service by replacing ntpd with chrony and a multi-layered architecture.
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Facebook Research Develops AI System for Music Source Separation
Facebook Research recently released Demucs, a new deep-learning-powered system for music source separation. Demucs outperforms previously reported results based on human evaluations of overall quality of sound after separation.
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Facebook Natively Rewrites Messenger to Make it Faster and Smaller on iOS
Facebook has been at work to rewrite its iOS Messenger app using native technologies. Soon to be available on the App Store, the new Messenger is twice as fast on launch and less than one-fourth in size, says Facebook. Its unified architecture outlines a new SQLite-centered approach to native app development.
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PyTorch 1.4 Release Introduces Java Bindings, Distributed Training
PyTorch, Facebook's open-source deep-learning framework, announced the release of version 1.4. This release, which will be the last version to support Python 2, includes improvements to distributed training and mobile inference and introduces support for Java.
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PyTorch 1.3 Release Adds Support for Mobile, Privacy, and Transparency
Facebook recently announced the release of PyTorch 1.3. The latest version of the open-source deep learning framework includes new tools for mobile, quantization, privacy, and transparency.
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Facebook AI Releases New Computer Vision Library Detectron2
Facebook AI Research (FAIR) has released Detectron2, a PyTorch-based computer vision library that brings a series of new research and production capabilities to the framework. While the first Detectron was written in Caffe2, Detectron2 represents a full rewrite of the original framework in PyTorch from the ground up, with several new object detection capabilities.
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Facebook Open-Sources CraftAssist Framework for AI Assistants in Minecraft
Facebook AI researchers open-sourced CraftAssist, a framework for building interactive assistants for the Minecraft video game. The bots use natural language understanding (NLU) to parse and execute text commands from human players, such as requests to build houses in the game world. The framework's modular structure can be extended by researchers to perform their own ML experiments.