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 |  Subject: Search For Artificial Intelligence "Synthetic Deity" Super Mind Leads To Arms Race In Silicon Valley  Thu Dec 12, 2013 9:38 am | |
| Search For Artificial Intelligence "Synthetic Deity" Super Mind Leads To Arms Race In Silicon Valley
On Tuesday Facebook announced it hired NYU professor and machine learning pioneer Yann LeCun to run its newly created artificial intelligence lab. Scooping up one of the biggest names in the field is a major move for the company, but it's not a surprising one. If anything, Facebook is late to enter to the AI arms race that's underway in Silicon Valley. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, IBM, a spattering of startups, and even Baidu, the "Chinese Google," have been eager to invest chunks of their research and acquisitions budgets into artificial intelligence lately, specifically deep learning, LeCun's specialty. Google definitely has an edge in this race. It's been tinkering with artificial intelligence and machine learning in its secret X lab for years, slowly pushing forward its "Google Brain" project. This spring the search company hired Geoffrey Hinton, the "Godfather" of deep learning, to build out its Knowledge Graph. It also has famed AI expert and futurist Ray Kurzweil as its head of engineering. |
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