Waymo’s self-driving cars now have something in common with the brains that guide regular vehicles: their intelligence comes partly from the power of evolution. Engineers at Waymo, owned by Alphabet, teamed up with researchers at DeepMind, another Alphabet division dedicated to AI, to find a more efficient process to train and fine-tune the company’s self-driving … Continue reading DeepMind is helping Waymo evolve better self-driving AI algorithms
Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI in new multiyear partnership
Microsoft is making a $1 billion bet on OpenAI, the company formed by notable founders including Elon Musk and Sam Altman three years ago with the aim of doing research and development work to steer the growth of artificial intelligence toward the “friendlier” end of the spectrum, in order to help mitigate what Musk sees … Continue reading Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI in new multiyear partnership
A machine has figured out Rubik’s Cube all by itself
Unlike chess moves, changes to a Rubik’s Cube are hard to evaluate, which is why deep-learning machines haven’t been able to solve the puzzle on their own. Until now. by Emerging Technology from the arXiv June 15, 2018 Yet another bastion of human skill and intelligence has fallen to the onslaught of the machines. A … Continue reading A machine has figured out Rubik’s Cube all by itself
Amazon hires team behind deep learning startup Orbeus
Amazon has hired nearly all of the people who worked at Orbeus, a small startup with technology for identifying items and people in photos and videos using deep learning, a type of artificial intelligence. Orbeus built an app for iOS and Android that could instantly tag photos, called PhotoTime, as well as the underlying Rekognition … Continue reading Amazon hires team behind deep learning startup Orbeus
Eric's playground 