by Angela Guess Cade Metz recently wrote in Wired, “In Game Two, the Google machine made a move that no human ever would. And it was beautiful. As the world looked on, the move so perfectly demonstrated the enormously powerful and rather mysterious talents of modern artificial intelligence. But in Game Four, the human made […]
Google Launches the Google Analytics 360 Suite
by Angela Guess Frederic Lardinois reports in TechCrunch, “Google is launching a new product for enterprise marketers today that will directly challenge Adobe’s Marketing Cloud and similar services. The Google Analytics 360 Suite will combine Google Analytics Premium (now called Google Analytics 360) and Adometry (which it acquired in 2014 and which is now called […]
Google Robots Use Machine Learning to Grasp Random Objects
by Angela Guess Frederic Lardinois reports in TechCrunch, “Using your hand to grasp a pen that’s lying on your desk doesn’t exactly feel like a chore, but for robots, that’s still a really hard thing to do. So to teach robots how to better grasp random objects, Google’s research team dedicated 14 robots to the […]
How Far Can AlphaGo’s Artificial Intelligence Go?
by Angela Guess Emma Brunskill recently wrote in The New York Times, “Artificial intelligence research is making it easier to automate decisions from data. But though AlphaGo’s success is impressive, ultimately it is winning in a game, and that can only be extrapolated so far when it comes to real world problems. AlphaGo leverages three […]
Why Google Flu Trends Missed the Mark So Badly
by Angela Guess Martin Willcox of Teradata recently wrote in Forbes, “Unless you have just returned to Earth after a short break on Mars, you will have noted that some of the shine has come off the big data bandwagon lately. Two academic papers that may have escaped your attention can help us to understand […]
Google’s DeepMind Sets Focus on Medical Software
by Angela Guess Jack Clark reports in Bloomberg Business, “Google’s DeepMind Technologies Ltd., an artificial intelligence company owned by the Web-search provider, is pushing into medical technology as it seeks to apply its expertise to health care. DeepMind has built a reputation for creating cutting-edge self-learning software and is pitting its technology against the world’s […]
The Beginning of the Robotic Revolution
by Angela Guess Damon Beres recently wrote in The Huffington Post, “We’re entering a new era of technology that’s bound to shape the lives of our children more substantially. It’s the era of artificial intelligence, and a group of academics and industry leaders gathered at the MIT Tech Conference on Saturday assured a full audience […]
Google Launches TensorFlow Serving
by Angela Guess Frederic Lardinois reports in TechCrunch, “Google launched TensorFlow Serving today, a new open source project that aims to help developers take their machine learning models into production. Unsurprisingly, TensorFlow Serving is optimized for Google’s own TensorFlow machine learning library, but the company says it can also be extended to support other models […]
Key AI Investment Stats: Facebook and Google Lead the Way
by Angela Guess Noah Kulwin recently wrote in Re/code, “Facebook and Google are two of Silicon Valley’s leaders in artificial intelligence. They have both invested heavily in AI, hiring loads of top researchers to develop projects like the Facebook Messenger “smart” assistant M, or Google’s in-the-works AI-powered chatbot. While Facebook and Google are duking it […]
Google’s Artificial Intelligence Now Qualifies as a Legal Driver
by Angela Guess Kirsten Korosec reports in Fortune, “A car’s legal driver doesn’t always have to be human, according to U.S. vehicle safety regulators—it can also be artificial intelligence. The National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration told Google that the artificial intelligence system that controls its self-driving car can be considered a driver under federal […]