Machine Learning
Emerging Technology
An arms race between Google Brain and Facebook AI Group
Yann LeCun/lecun.org
Mike Isaac | All Things D
Facebook is diving headlong into AI.
Expect an arms race between Google Brain, Facebook AI Group and other tech companies that will desperately try to keep up.
...the power to actually understand what their users are saying
Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
DANIELA HERNANDEZ | Wired
‘I get very excited when we discover a way of making neural networks better — and when that’s closely related to how the brain works.’ — Geoffrey Hinton
The aim to give these services the power to actually understand what their users are saying — without help from other humans. “We want to take AI and CIFAR to wonderful new places,” Hinton says, “where no person, no student, no program has gone before.”
This will turn the digital world on its head
Erin Lubin/The New York Times
JOHN MARKOFF | NYTimes
Computers have entered the age when they are able to learn from their own mistakes, a development that is about to turn the digital world on its head.
The first commercial version of the new kind of computer chip is scheduled to be released in 2014. It is based on the biological nervous system, specifically on how neurons react to stimuli and connect with other neurons to interpret information.