Uber shopping. Acquired the Geometric Intelligence of New York – The Republic

UBER continues to make shopping in the field of artificial intelligence. Has just acquired the Geometric Intelligence of New York, a startup specializzala in particular in the learning technologies of the machines. Are just eighteen people, but among them there are names of weight. One of the founders, as well as ceo, you call the Gary Marcus and is a writer of some success and professor of Psychology and neural sciences at New York University. At his side there is Zoubin Ghahramani, professor of the University of Cambridge and Jason Yosinski that is the past for Nasa, the Cornell Lab, Google DeepMind. The others are no less.

The artificial intelligence and his ability to learn through experience is a fundamental element in the race towards the virtual assistants, instant translations, an understanding of the meaning of the words, artificial vision, autonomous guide, and in the case of Uber and the choice of paths that its drivers need to fulfill. We are targeting everyone from Google to Nvidia, via Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Tesla, Ibm, Intel, and apparently even Apple. Just to name a few. Because, in the case of the so-called "Google car", without that the machine is not capable of making correct decisions. And any error could result of victims.

Uber is accelerating the step. In August he had bought the Eight, the startup of San Francisco founded seven months before, by Lion Ron and Anthony Levandowski. The first, born in 1977, is an israeli with laura at Stanford and a long history in the defence forces of his Country. The second, born in 1980, is an engineer who is from Berkeley an d who worked on the Google Car with Sebastian Thrun. Their company, with 91 employees, has been acquired for 680 million dollars paid out in shares: approximately one percent, whereas the valuation of Uber is a little less than 70 billion. Thanks to the Eight, Travis Kalanick and his companions have managed to get on the road at Pittsburgh a hundred taxi to guide autonomous. You do not know the amount paid out by Uber to the Geometric Intelligence. Only the latter is developing a new type of neural networks.

The team, or, better, fifteen of them, will join The Labs of Uber working on the optimization of the routes offered with UberPool, the collective taxis, and UberEats, the deliveries of the meals.As well as the cars capable of driving without the need of a driver.

Topics:

Geometric Intelligence

uber

the learning machine

the self -driving car

the Eight

Travis Kalanick

deepmind

Starring:

Zoubin Ghahramani

Gary Marcus