“Goodfellow is known for inventing a form of machine learning training algorithms called generative adversarial networks (GANs). GANs are effectively two AI systems that are pitted against each other. Working against each other, they both improve.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/apple-poaches-top-ai-expert-ian-goodfellow-from-google/
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Apple quietly absorbed a company that makes AI cameras for people’s homes
“A Cisco report estimates that connected home applications, such as home automation, home security, and video surveillance, connected white goods, and tracking applications, will represent 48% of the total machine-to-machine connections by 2022.” https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-reportedly-absorbed-lighthouse-a-firm-that-makes-ai-cameras-2019-3
How Facebook deals with the fact AI is a mess on smartphones
“Apple, they write, stands out: its “Metal” API for iOS runs on a consistent chip platform and the GPUs in those chips are higher-performance, on average, “making Metal on iOS devices with GPUs an attractive target for efficient neural network inference.” Even then, however, the results of a “rigorous” examination of the speed of inference…