Artificial intelligence, Apple reveals its secrets (for the first time) – Corriere della Sera

The studies about artificial intelligence, and the resulting services provided by machines capable of learning (and, as to "feel"), will be the centre of the commitment of the technology brands for 2017. The ground has been prepared over the past few years – with more than sixty acquisitions increased from 2011 to today – until you get to the statements from Google that the new year is described as a company "To the first". Own Mountain View at the end of September was one of the founders of the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, a union of intent and of studies (and lobbying) that saw the participation of Ibm (with its Watson), Amazon (Alexa), Microsoft (Cortana) and Facebook (Jarvis). Zuckerberg himself has put into the game, with the whole family, with a demonst ration pre-christmas of the virtual assistant Palo Alto which, to tell the true it seemed more a commercial than a reality mature.

those Who missed the call, in addition to the consortium OpenAi of Elon Musk born a year ago and that seems to want to play alone (or almost, actually), it was Apple, always jealous of their own research and our own projects. But the artificial intelligence is much bigger, so to speak, of the functionality of Siri. So after a few months from when Cupertino "was made to blow" by Samsung the startup Viv, founded by the creators of assistant of Apple, Apple has decided on the theme of a change in policy, to open up. It told the story well Bloomberg at the beginning of the month. And it was not only a statement of intent: the 22nd of December came the publication of the first study about the artificial intelligence, the result of a team of researchers of the Apple (in the photo below, the head of the project Ashish Shrivastava). The study, as writes Forbes, describes a technique on how to improve "training" the ability of an algorithm to recognize images using those computer-generated – more digestible for an intelligence and synthetic rather than real world images, and which require human intervention.

The move to Cupertino is also linked to the need to make themselves more palatable (and digestible) to the best brains working on the AI, and then do the recruiting. The privacy and the secrecy of Apple about the research proved to be an obstacle, a real boomerang, from the moment that the career of a scientist of the quality and quantity of the publications counts. To the point that the community of scholars on the artificial intelligence was criticized openly the policy of Cupertino. Now with this turning point she is preparing to return to the office on your own ecosystem based on machine learning. Ecosystem from the broad – as with all the brand, going to tap aspects which are more "simple" as the algorithms used by the camera of the iPhone up to the services to be increasingly "smart" offered by the company.