Category: Artificial Intelligence
Google Photos can now recognize the lovable faces of your cats and dogs
I wish this was one of the approximately 8,000 dog photos on my phone. Image: Ruud Lauritsen/Kennel Club/REX/Shutterstock Google knows that your phone holds untold gigabytes of snapshots of your favorite animal friends. So the search giant is making it even easier to group those pics all together. SEE ALSO: Why the iPhone 8 Plus […]
Facebook entered its AI into a Starcraft competition and it got smoked
Facebook will need to work on its Starcraft strat if it wants to compete with Google’s AI. The social giant quietly entered its artificial intelligence into an annual Starcraft: Brood War competition for AI bots on Sunday, Wired reports. But its hope of finding the same success as rival DeepMind was halted when a nasty swarm of […]
Tesla said to be working on its own self-driving AI chip with AMD
Tesla is reportedly developing its own processor for artificial intelligence, intended for use with its self-driving systems, in partnership with AMD. Tesla has an existing relationship with Nvidia, whose GPUs power its Autopilot system, but this new in-house chip reported by CNBC could potentially reduce its reliance on third-party AI processing hardware. AMD would help […]
Where human intelligence outperforms AI
David Kline Contributor David Kline is a journalist, author and intellectual property strategist. More posts by this contributor: A new (old) way for product makers to defeat patent roadblocks With every new trend comes a counter-trend. And so despite the current excitement over the wonders of artificial intelligence, one company is betting that human intelligence can […]
Google CEO Sundar Pichai: ‘I don’t know whether humans want change that fast’
From artificial intelligence to cheap smartphones, Google is on the frontline of technological development. But is it growing too big and moving too fast? A rare interview with Google’s boss. When Sundar Pichai was growing up in Chennai, south-east India, he had to make regular trips to the hospital to pick up his mother’s […]