Google’s UK-based DeepMind AI company has opened its first international office in Edmonton, as the artificial intelligence lab starts to ramp up its overseas engineering efforts.
Both Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa voice assistants are being put through their paces by Marriott International, who hope to use one of the AI platforms to control devices in its hotel rooms.
As artificial intelligence becomes an increasingly powerful force, some of the world’s biggest companies are worrying about how the technology will be used ethically, and how the public will perceive its spread. To combat these issues, five tech companies — Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, and IBM — set up a research group called the Partnership...
Apple is set to join Google, Facebook, and Microsoft in an artificial intelligence research group group dominated by technology industry giants. Apple being admitted into the group could be announced as early as this week, claim sources familiar with the story. The group was established last year and also includes online retailing giant Amazon and IBM...
Just last month, Apple said it will allow its artificial intelligence teams to publish research papers for the first time, marking a significant change in strategy that could help accelerate the iPhone maker’s advances in deep learning. Now, Apple is making good on that promise, as the company published its very first research paper on artificial intelligence...