Apple has hired John Giannandrea, former Senior Vice President of Engineering, specifically search and Artificial Intelligence, at Google. In his new role running machine learning and AI strategy, Giannandrea will be reporting directly to Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. The bombshell news was shared with Apple employees in a company email, first reported on by The New York Times: "Our technology must be infused with the values we all hold dear. John shares our commitment to privacy and our thoughtful approach as we make computers even smarter and more personal." AI is critical to the next great leap forward in computing. Ethical AI is critical to how we, as people, survive that leap. Facebook has increasingly come under fire for how it does and could use AI to monetize and manipulate its users for advertising and influence peddling. Google, which has made a more public effort to balance deep insight with deep exploitation, still has to wrestle with what could happen when and if those two … [Read more...] about Apple and its future with Artificial Intelligence
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Apple has hired Google’s head of search and artificial intelligence
Yesterday, Google SVP of Engineering in charge of search and artificial intelligence John Giannandrea announced his departure from the company. Now the reason for that departure is clear: he's been hired by Apple to lead the company's "machine learning and A.I. strategy," reporting directly to CEO Tim Cook. The New York Times obtained an email from Cook to Apple staff explaining the new hire thusly: Our technology must be infused with the values we all hold dear... John shares our commitment to privacy and our thoughtful approach as we make computers even smarter and more personal. Giannandrea joined Google in 2010 as part of the company's acquisition of Metaweb, the company behind Freebase, a community-driven database of data and information which was eventually leveraged to augment Google search results. He has also worked as Chief Technologist for Netscape, and he sits on the board of trustees for the SETI institute. Apple needs strong talent to improve its machine-learning and … [Read more...] about Apple has hired Google’s head of search and artificial intelligence
Apple hires Google’s chief of search and artificial intelligence
According to a new report from The New York Times, Apple has hired John Giannandrea, Google's now-former chief of search and artificial intelligence. He will reportedly take over the company's efforts in machine learning and A.I. Apple said on Tuesday that Mr. Giannandrea will run Apple's "machine learning and A.I. strategy," and become one of 16 executives who report directly to Apple's chief executive, Timothy D. Cook. Perhaps sensing the concern some might have for an artificial intelligence expert from Google joining the famously privacy-focused company, Tim Cook seemed to quell concerns in an email to Apple employees: "Our technology must be infused with the values we all hold dear. John shares our commitment to privacy and our thoughtful approach as we make computers even smarter and more personal." Apple's balance between customer data protection and advances in A.I. and machine learning is a common topic among pundits. The company has been criticized for not placing enough … [Read more...] about Apple hires Google’s chief of search and artificial intelligence
‘Citizen AI’: Teaching artificial intelligence to act responsibly
Researchers at Mt. Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine in New York at have a unique collaborator in the hospital: Their in-house artificial intelligence system, known as Deep Patient. The researchers taught Deep Patient to predict risk factors for 78 different diseases by feeding it electronic health records from 700,000 patients. Doctors now turn to the system to aid in diagnoses. While not a person, Deep Patient is more than just a program. Like other advanced AI systems, it learns, makes autonomous decisions, and has grown from a technological tool to a partner, coordinating and collaborating with humans. This isn’t surprising, given that four out of five (81 percent) of executives surveyed for Accenture’s most-recent Tech Vision report believe within the next three years, AI will work next to humans in their organizations as a coworker, collaborator, and trusted advisor. For some organizations, AI is already the public face of the business, handling everything from … [Read more...] about ‘Citizen AI’: Teaching artificial intelligence to act responsibly
Effective IT infrastructure strategies for artificial intelligence
Despite the hype and promise, only a small fraction of organisations have deployed and used artificial intelligence (AI) at scale. The vast majority are still working to define their AI strategy – identifying uses and applicability; devising business and technology models; and piloting early initiatives. Infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders are challenged with creating agile infrastructure to enable productive AI strategies. Twenty-five percent will be investing in and deploying AI-based initiatives by 2022, up from 4 percent this year, according to Gartner. Successful AI initiatives require the adoption of new technologies, processes and governance models. Many organisations, however, struggle to identify the right infrastructure strategies due to a diverse set of factors – lack of employees with relevant skill sets; high infrastructure growth rate and aligned management complexity; exponential increase in data volumes; increasing demand for insights to support … [Read more...] about Effective IT infrastructure strategies for artificial intelligence