Gigaom has written a lot about artificial intelligence over the years. Here are three timelines tracking the rise of deep learning and other learning systems, IBM Watson and AI discussions at… Read more »
Large web companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon have been pushing the boundaries of IT for years, and now their problems — and solutions — are making their ways into… Read more »
Facebook artificial intelligence director and NYU researcher Yann LeCun delved into the future of AI last week in an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit. Here are his thoughts on why… Read more »
Google continued its heavy infrastructure spending in the first quarter of 2014, to the tune of more than $2.3 billion. It’s the third consecutive quarter the company has topped $2 billion in capital expenditures. Read more »
Facebook has released part of its code that helps its data scientists and other staff easily build, manage and verify A/B tests, which are an important task for any website or… Read more »
The name pretty much says it all: WebScaleSQL. That’s the new open source project Facebook announced on Thursday, which includes early contributions from other web giants that have pushed MySQL to… Read more »
Facebook detailed on Tuesday a new cybersecurity framework called ThreatData. It’s a collection of systems for ingesting, analyzing and acting upon threat data that can vary greatly in both type and… Read more »
A Facebook research paper details a new method for recognizing the people in images by combining deep learning techniques with a method for recomposing angled images as straight-on ones. It’s the… Read more »
Facebook has open sourced the code it uses to measure the energy and water consumption of its data centers, as well as the code for the dashboard that visualizes those readings… Read more »
Facebook doesn’t have a shortage of IT gear or smart engineers, but it does have limits on power and how many hours those engineers have in a day. On Thursday, the… Read more »