by Angela Guess A new release out of Google DeepMind Health states, “We founded DeepMind to make the world a better place by developing technologies that help address some of society’s toughest challenges. So we’re excited to announce our first medical research project with an NHS Trust. We’ll be working with Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS […]
Google Launches New Machine Learning Research Group in Zurich
by Angela Guess Eric David reports in SiliconAngle, “Google has been making major strides over the last few years in the field of artificial intelligence research, with important breakthroughs like AlphaGo and more recently with its Magenta project. Now, Google has announced that it will continue striving for new advancements in AI with the launch […]
Artificial Intelligence Still Has a Long Way to Go
by Angela Guess Jonathan Vanian recently wrote in Fortune, “Computers can recognize cats in photos and translate websites into different languages thanks to recent advances in artificial intelligence. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to someday creating computers that can think like humans. Take the example of Google’s AlphaGo computer […]
Google Tries to Make Artificial Intelligence More Creative with Magenta
by Angela Guess Danielle Muolo recently wrote in TechInsider, “Google introduced a new group dedicated to making artificial intelligence more creative at Moogfest, a four-day music and technology festival in Durham, North Carolina,Quartz first reported. Called Magenta, the group will use its AI system TensorFlow to see if AI can be trained to create its […]
Google Building Its Own Chips for Machine Learning
by Angela Guess Frederic Lardinois reports in TechCrunch, “As Google announced at its I/O developer conference today, the company recently started building its own specialized chips to expedite the machine learning algorithms. These so-called Tensor Processing Units (TPU) are custom-built chips that Google has now been using in its own data centers for almost a […]
Why the Google App is Reading Thousands of Romance Novels
by Angela Guess Lindsey J. Smith reports in The Verge, “For the past few months, Google has been feeding 2,865 romance novels into an artificial intelligence engine to help loosen it up — linguistically at least, BuzzFeed reports. The goal is to make the Google app — known for its stiff, factual style — more […]
Google Releases New TensorFlow Update
by Angela Guess Nathaniel Mott reports in The Guardian, “The battle for the future of computing is a battle to bring artificial intelligence to the mainstream – and Google is quietly overhauling a machine learning tool used to improve some of its most popular services including Google Translate and Google Photos. TensorFlow can be used […]
The Singularity: Why Humans Need Not Fear
by Angela Guess John Markoff recently wrote in the New York Times, “Misconception: Computers will outstrip human capabilities within many of our lifetimes. Actually: You won’t be obsolete for a long time, if ever, most researchers say. In March when Alphago, the Go-playing software program designed by Google’s DeepMind subsidiary defeated Lee Se-dol, the human […]
Google Intends to Solve Artificial Intelligence
by Angela Guess Tom Simonite reports in the MIT Technology Review, “Padded walls, gloomy lighting, and a ceiling with floral wallpaper. It doesn’t look like a place to make groundbreaking discoveries that change the trajectory of society. But in these simulated, claustrophobic corridors, Demis Hassabis thinks he can lay the foundations for software that’s smart […]
The Possibilities of Human-Assisted Machine Learning
by Angela Guess Alex Woodie recently wrote in Datanami, “Artificial intelligence has never been as pervasive as it is today. From Google’s self-driving cars from to Hilton’s new Watson-powered hotel concierge, we are witnessing an explosion of AI capabilities. But while it may appear that machines are taking over, they are still tied to their […]