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Google bought Deepmind for $ 500 million
Google buys London-based company, which is engaged in the development of artificial intelligence - DeepMind. Sources called the transaction amount to more than $ 500 million. Buying officially confirmed representatives in Google.
That Google will this acquisition? Firstly, allow it to compete with other major technology companies, thanks to the focus on in-depth training. For example, Facebook recently hired professor Yann Lekanov to lead its own development of artificial intelligence. Watson supercomputer from IBM is currently focused precisely on a deep learning, and Yahoo has recently acquired a start on the analysis of the photos LookFlow, that is also moving in this matter.
DeepMind was founded by neuroscientist Demis Hassabis, former chess prodigy, Skype and Kazaa developer Jaan Tallinn and researcher Shane Legg.
This move will allow Google to fill the team tehnogiganta own field experts in the field of artificial intelligence, and, according to sources, the acquisition of personally supervise CEO Google Larry Page. If all three founders will work on Google, they will join the inventor, entrepreneur, author and futurologist Ray Kurzweil, who in 2012 became the technical director of the division Google, engaged in machine learning and language processing.
Kurzweil says he wants to build a search engine is so perfect that it can become a real "cyber friend».
Following the acquisition of Nest earlier this month, critics have expressed concern on the subject of how much user data will be sent to Google. Buying Boston Dynamics in the past month has also led to a debate on what Google plans to become a manufacturer of robots.
Nevertheless, Google is well prepared to ensure that allay our fears about their latest acquisitions. Sources say that Google has decided to establish a Council on Ethics, which will oversee the development of artificial intelligence within DeepMind.
However, the company will have to clarify what it is that makes artificial intelligence DeepMind. The company's website is currently hanging landing page with a relatively vague description, which states that DeepMind - is "a company that is at the forefront," and engaged in the construction of algorithms for the simulation of the future, e-commerce and games. As of December 75 in a startup working employees.
The main sponsors are the startup Founders Fund and Horizons Ventures. DeepMind was founded three years ago.
In 2012, Professor at the Institute of Carnegie Mellon Larry Wasserman wrote that "start-up is going to create a system that thinks. I thought it was sheer madness, until he learned how many famous billionaires to invest in the company. "
Source: habrahabr.ru/company/telebreeze/blog/210594/
That Google will this acquisition? Firstly, allow it to compete with other major technology companies, thanks to the focus on in-depth training. For example, Facebook recently hired professor Yann Lekanov to lead its own development of artificial intelligence. Watson supercomputer from IBM is currently focused precisely on a deep learning, and Yahoo has recently acquired a start on the analysis of the photos LookFlow, that is also moving in this matter.
DeepMind was founded by neuroscientist Demis Hassabis, former chess prodigy, Skype and Kazaa developer Jaan Tallinn and researcher Shane Legg.
This move will allow Google to fill the team tehnogiganta own field experts in the field of artificial intelligence, and, according to sources, the acquisition of personally supervise CEO Google Larry Page. If all three founders will work on Google, they will join the inventor, entrepreneur, author and futurologist Ray Kurzweil, who in 2012 became the technical director of the division Google, engaged in machine learning and language processing.
Kurzweil says he wants to build a search engine is so perfect that it can become a real "cyber friend».
Following the acquisition of Nest earlier this month, critics have expressed concern on the subject of how much user data will be sent to Google. Buying Boston Dynamics in the past month has also led to a debate on what Google plans to become a manufacturer of robots.
Nevertheless, Google is well prepared to ensure that allay our fears about their latest acquisitions. Sources say that Google has decided to establish a Council on Ethics, which will oversee the development of artificial intelligence within DeepMind.
However, the company will have to clarify what it is that makes artificial intelligence DeepMind. The company's website is currently hanging landing page with a relatively vague description, which states that DeepMind - is "a company that is at the forefront," and engaged in the construction of algorithms for the simulation of the future, e-commerce and games. As of December 75 in a startup working employees.
The main sponsors are the startup Founders Fund and Horizons Ventures. DeepMind was founded three years ago.
In 2012, Professor at the Institute of Carnegie Mellon Larry Wasserman wrote that "start-up is going to create a system that thinks. I thought it was sheer madness, until he learned how many famous billionaires to invest in the company. "
Source: habrahabr.ru/company/telebreeze/blog/210594/
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