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Google has opened for all machine learning library TensorFlow

“A couple of years ago, you could not talk to the Google application in the urban noise, or read a sign in a foreign language through an interpreter Google Translate, and instantly find photos of your labradudelya – says Google’s official blog. – Our applications simply were not smart enough. But in a short time they became much, much smarter. Now, thanks to machine learning all that is available. Despite all the progress we have made, still remains room for improvement. Therefore we have created a completely new system of machine learning, called TensorFlow. It’s faster, smarter and more flexible than our old system, so it is much easier to adapt to new products and research. ”

So, Google posted its latest development TensorFlow into the public domain under the freedom of the license Apache 2.0.

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Toyota Invests in AI Car’s SKYNET

Toyota is investing $ 1 billion in research company that has been developing in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics. This initiative is a continuation of the company’s endeavors to create futuristic cars of the future, as well as ideas on how to implement new technologies in everyday life. One of the aims of the Japanese automotive giant is to create machines that can prevent mistakes and reduce the number of drivers of accidents on the roads.

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Yamaha presents the robot motorbot capable of controlling a motorcycle

Company Yamaha presenting a humanoid robot that can drive a motorcycle on Tokyo Automotive exhibition. This robot is called Motobot controls not only the drain conventional motorcycle, but also quite powerful model – liter sport Yamaha YZF-R1M released in 2015.

The company for several years, work is underway to create a robot that can manage catabatic motorcycles on the track. Unfortunately, details about Motobot little is known – is mentioned only that driving a motorcycle at high speeds requires the coordinated work of a multitude of complex and high-precision systems.

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Google says it’s ‘rethinking everything’ around machine learning

It’s already sorting your email and translating your voice searches, and machine learning will play a bigger role in Google’s services moving forward.Google’s parent company, Alphabet, reported its quarterly financial results Thursday, with revenue and profit both up from a year earlier. New Google CEO Sundar Pichai took part in his first earnings call, and in between discussing the numbers he revealed how important Google thinks machine learning is to its future.

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Forget Siri: Here’s a New Way for Robots to Talk

Image: Georgia TechGeorgia Tech researcher Dr. Crystal Chao interacts with Simon, a social robot.

Samantha from “Her.” She was smart, feisty, and sometimes pensive. Sam was easy to talk to and brimming with personality.

The AI from Spike Jonze’s 2013 movie caught our attention not just because it had the knowledge base of a thousand IBM Watsons, but also because conversations with Samantha were like chats with a close friend.

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Artificial intelligence comes to toys

Artificial intelligence, which has already made inroads into fields ranging from medicine to aerospace engineering, could end up on end-of-year shopping lists.

That’s because several toy companies – including industry leader Mattel – are planning to roll out an assortment of AI-enabled toys for kids as young as three.

The one toy that everyone has been talking about is Mattel’s Hello Barbie, which is powered by a proprietary platform that was developed by ToyTalk, a San Francisco-based AI company founded by two former Pixar employees. The doll, slated to hit shelves in November, will retail for $74.99 (about R1 000).

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Honda joins race for self-driving car

Honda said Wednesday it would put a commercialized self-driving car on the road by 2020, challenging rivals Toyota and Nissan which are also betting on the future of autonomous vehicles.

The announcement, ahead of the Tokyo Motor Show next week, comes as the auto giants step on the accelerator in a bid to race past overseas competitors on the next-generation technology.

Google has been testing self-driving cars in Silicon Valley, as have U.S.-based Tesla and General Motors, while Nissan has vowed to put an automated car on Japan’s highways as soon as 2016.

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Google invests in Chinese artificial intelligence firm

Google has taken a stake in a Chinese artificial intelligence startup which is aiming to develop smart wearable technologies.

The amount on investment in Mobvoi was not disclosed.

But the companies said that the firm, created by a former Google researcher, has now raised $75 million in equity financing.

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IBM sells Watson’s artificial intelligence to startups

IBM's Watson

An iPad kiosk called VineSleuth wants to help. When it arrives in grocery store aisles next year, you’ll be able to press a button and say what you want in your own words.

“I’d like a cheap rosé that’s not too sweet to go with a Caesar salad.”

Sounds simple enough, but understanding natural spoken language, picking out keywords and using them to identify specific wines is complicated. And VineSleuth is a small startup with only one full-time employee.
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Artificial intelligence is making better drugs

Niven R Narain

Niven R Narain
AI Drug Developer

WIRED 2015 is our annual two-day celebration of the innovators, inventors, artists and entrepreneurs who are reinventing our world. For more from the event, head over to our WIRED 2015 hub.

Creating new drugs is expensive. On average, it takes $2.6bn (£1.7bn) and between ten and 15 years to get a drug from planning to pharmacist, according to some estimates. And that’s because current methods are so untargeted — for every 100 drugs that reach first stage clinical trials, only one goes on to become an actual treatment.

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