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Research | Google Hires Brains that Helped Supercharge Machine Learning
Google has hired the man who showed how to make computers learn much like the human brain.
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Cloud | Ex-Googlers Train Machine Army to Sift Out Crooks
Here’s a tidbit for the online retailers out there: If a shopper on your website is using Firefox with Windows XP, the odds of him being a fraudster go up sixfold. That’s a trend mined by the machine...
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Software | Google Bags (Another) Machine-Learning Startup
Famously, Google says it's on a mission to organize the world's information. And Wavvi says it's on a mission to understand the world's information. So there's a certain harmony behind the reports that...
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Out in the Open: Palm Pilot Inventor Wants to Open Source the Human Brain
Computer scientist and entrepreneur Jeff Hawkins -- best known as the inventor of the Palm Pilot -- has a unified theory of the brain's inner workings and has created algorithms for applying this...
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Why Guessing Your Romantic Partner Is So Important to Facebook
Building 16 at Facebook headquarters is home to the Fishbowl, Mark Zuckerberg’s private all-glass corner conference room that sits beneath a red vintage sign that reads “The Hacker Company.” Not far...
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Tech Time Warp of the Week: SAM the Intelligent Robot, 1989
Amazon's Kiva robots are impressive. But not as impressive as SAM, the 450-pound bot that could understand upwards of six trillion spoken phrases and respond accordingly. Kivas can't do that. And SAM...
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Computer Chips That Work Like a Brain Are Coming — Just Not Yet
Although mimicking the structure of the brain was one of the original technique researchers experimented with when trying to create machine intelligence, the tecnique — called neural networking —...
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