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Former Siri chief is leaving Apple to join Microsoft’s AI division
Bill Stasior http://linkedin.com/in/billstasior “Bill Stasior, the former head of Apple’s Siri division, is leaving the company after nearly a decade to join Microsoft’s artificial intelligence division, reports The Information.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/8/19/20812981/apple-siri-bill-stasior-leaving-company-microsoft-joining-ai-cortana
Is Google leading the image recognition engine race?
“The top-level results of the study show Google Vision to be the best of the engines when it comes to basic accuracy. 81.7% of the 2000 images it tagged were accurate, second only to the human team who managed to tag the images with 87.7% accuracy.” https://www.clickz.com/image-recognition-engine-comparison/254682/
Microsoft invests $1 billion in artificial intelligence lab co-founded by Elon Musk
“The companies said Monday that they will build a hardware and software platform of “unprecedented scale” within Microsoft’s cloud service provider Azure that will train and run increasingly advanced AI models. Microsoft will also become OpenAI’s preferred partner for selling its technologies and the two will jointly develop Azure’s supercomputing technology. ” https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/1794348001
Bill Gates: Biggest impact of AI may be decades away, but society needs to prepare now
“Last week, Amazon announced plans to spend $700 million over the next five years to “upskill” about 100,000 employees. Still, Gates seemed skeptical of the initiative. ‘When Amazon said they were going to retrain 100,000 people, what did that mean? I wasn’t sure, but that was nice of them to say that,’ he said.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.geekwire.com/2019/bill-gates-biggest-impact-ai-may-decades-away-society-needs-prepare-now/amp/