“Google uses machine learning across a wide range of its products. In order to continually improve our models, it’s crucial that the training process be as fast as possible.”
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“Roborace will be the world’s first driverless racing series when it debuts either later this year or early next year, but the organizers have finally unveiled what its custom-made electric cars will look like — and boy do they look wild.”
Read: These are the crazy futuristic cars of Roborace, the world’s first driverless racing series
“Tay was born pure. She loved E.D.M., in particular the work of Calvin Harris. She used words like “swagulated” and almost never didn’t call it “the internets.” She was obsessed with abbrevs and the prayer-hands emoji.”
Read: I’ve Seen the Greatest A.I. Minds of My Generation Destroyed by Twitter
“It took less than 24 hours for Twitter to corrupt an innocent AI chatbot. Yesterday, Microsoft unveiled Tay — a Twitter bot that the company described as an experiment in “conversational understanding.”
Read: Twitter taught Microsoft’s AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day
“George Hotz welcomed a packed room at SXSW yesterday for his panel “I Built a Better Self-Driving Car Than Tesla” with an intro as buzzy as the event’s title. Hotz introduced his company, comma.”
Read: George Hotz promised to end capitalism in a manic sermon at SXSW
“AlphaGo’s victories against legendary Go player Lee Se-dol over the last few days mark a major milestone in AI research.”
“DeepMind’s stunning victories over Go legend Lee Se-dol have stoked excitement over artificial intelligence’s potential more than any event in recent memory. But the Google subsidiary’s AlphaGo program is far from its only project — it’s not even the main one.”
Read: DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis on how AI will shape the future
“Google has taken a brilliant and unexpected step toward building an AI with more humanlike intuition, developing a computer capable of beating even expert human players at the fiendishly complicated board game Go.”
Read: A Google DeepMind Algorithm Uses Deep Learning and More to Master the Game of Go
“Microsoft’s brain is now available for anyone to use in their apps. The company has open sourced the artificial intelligence framework it uses to power speech recognition in its Cortana digital assistant and Skype Translate applications.”
Read: Microsoft Open Sources Its Artificial Brain to One-Up Google
“Facebook designed this server to put new power behind the simulated neurons that enable software to do smart things like recognize speech or the content of photos.”
Read: Why Google, Facebook, Microsoft and IBM Are Desperate to Give Away AI Technology