How Apple Uses Deep Learning to Fix Siri’s Robotic Voice
Earlier this year, Apple introduced the "Apple Machine Learning Journal," a blog detailing Apple's work on machine learning, AI, and other related topics. The blog is written entirely by Apple's engineers, and gives them a way to share their progress and interact with other researchers and engineers. Now, publishing a new round of papers on...
Google Maps Now Uses Deep Learning to Automatically Update Business Listings
Google has announced that it is using deep learning with Street View to make it easier to automate the process of mapping new addresses for Google Maps. The camera on top of the Google Street View car collects imagery of the real world to complement Google Maps. Since Google collects so much data, it is...
Microsoft Acquires Montreal-Based Deep Learning Startup Maluuba
Today, Microsoft has announced that it has acquired Montreal-based deep learning startup Maluuba. The startup uses natural language processing and machine learning in an attempt to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI). For those who are not familiar, AGI is an attempted to create an AI agent that can successfully perform any task that a human being...
Apple Hires AI Expert From Nvidia With Experience in Self-Driving Car Systems, Deep Learning
Apple has hired Nvidia's Jonathan Cohen, director of deep learning software for the company, according to Cohen's LinkedIn page, which was first spotted by Recode. Deep learning is a branch of machine learning based on a set of algorithms that attempt to model high-level abstractions in data. To put it simply, deep learning allows computers...