Google’s AI goes cold calling
In the locked down UK, Google are using it’s AI phone assistant Duplex to ring round businesses to find out what their opening hours are in these Covid-19 days. Duplex sounds very … Read more
Mustafa joins Google
The co-founder of British AI firm DeepMind, Mr Mustafa Suleyman is to join Google. His work at DeepMind saw him collaborating with Google over reducing energy consumption at their Data Centres, also … Read more
Go master ‘stops’
Go, the Chinese strategy game, has a new master, apparently one that can’t be defeated says former Go master Lee Se-dol. Three years ago he was challenged to a five game showdown … Read more
Explainable AI
That giant of data crunching, Google, is launching Explainable AI. Whether this is because Google is perceived to be lagging behind Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure is uncertain. Professor Andrew Moore … Read more
Alphabet’s DeepMind AI achieves Grandmaster status playing Starcraft 2
Alphabet, the parent company of Google used DeepMind AI anonymously to play against real gamers and in so doing became a Grandmaster of Starcraft 2. Alphabet sought the assistance of Blizzard who … Read more
AI software engineer resigns over Project Maven.
An engineer recruited by Google and later assigned to work on Project Maven has resigned over ethical concerns. Laura Nolan, a computer science graduate from Trinity College Dublin became increasingly concerned over … Read more
AI helps plait ‘fog’
The ‘fog’ mentioned in the title is my poetic licence for plasma. The quest for limitless fuel with minimal pollution has been the dream for many generations. Renewables such as solar and … Read more
Has Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) been upstaged?
Google’s TPU is a custom ASIC specifically designed for machine learning with the accent on TensorFlow. It’s been in use now for a couple of years and has also been powering RankBrain, … Read more