Microsoft researchers claim in a recently published paper that they have developed the first computer system capable of outperforming humans on a popular benchmark. While it’s estimated that humans can classify images in… Read more »
Chinese search engine company Baidu says it has built the world’s most-accurate computer vision system, dubbed Deep Image, which runs on a supercomputer optimized for deep learning algorithms. Baidu claims a 5.98… Read more »
Two studies published this week provide even more evidence that deep learning models are very good at computer vision and might be able to tackle some difficult problems. The study on computer… Read more »
IBM says it has developed a machine learning system that identified images of skin cancer with better than 95 percent accuracy in experiments, and it’s now teaming up with doctors to… Read more »
A new startup called Butterfly Network, from genomic-technology pioneer Jonathan Rothberg, hopes to improve the world of medical imaging using advanced chip technologies, tablet devices and deep learning. Rothberg explains how… Read more »
Apple’s iOS8 photo announcements come up short on social site sync and leading-edge search. That leaves plenty of room other apps to innovate on combining metadata, social graphs, and image recognition. Read more »
Netflix is the latest company to acknowledge that it’s researching new approaches to artificial intelligence that could help improve its products. Although it hasn’t said where it might apply deep learning… Read more »
Everyone’s more interested in artificial intelligence since news broke that Google acquired a secretive startup called DeepMind. The technology has big promise, but make no mistake: It’s not sentient yet, and… Read more »
There has been a spate of acquisitions lately targeting companies and founders with expertise in using machine learning to analyze images and text. Although buyers such as Pinterest and Yahoo are… Read more »