Will Apple’s new AI chief fix Siri?
Apple has a new chief that will oversee Apple’s strategy for artificial intelligence and machine learning, who’s also supposed to fixate many shortcomings of Apple’s underpowered digital assistant.
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Google Translate for iPhone picks up AI-powered offline mode supporting 59 languages
The same neural machine translation technology that powers online translations now works offline, letting you use Google’s Translate app when traveling abroad without a local data plan.
Google Photos will colorize your B&W photos, help you remove background colors & more
Google Photos will get one-tap actions, work with your favorite apps and devices, change black-and-white shots into color and help you remove background colors from an image.
Google News is rolling out overhauled, artificially intelligent iPhone app with subscriptions & more
The new app replaces Google’s existing Play Newsstand and News & Weather apps and includes AI-powered recommenations and features like Full Coverage.
Apple hires Google’s chief of search and A.I.
Apple has hired Google’s chief of search and artificial intelligence John Giannandrea, reports The New York Times. The outlet has obtained an internal email from Tim Cook, who tells employees “John shares our commitment to privacy and our thoughtful approach as we make computers even smarter and more personal.”
Video: hands-on with machine learning-powered mixing in djay Pro 2 for Mac
Automix AI in the new djay Pro 2 app for Mac uses machine learning for remarkably smooth transitions between songs. We asked our own Andrew O’Hara to put together a quick hands-on video walthrough showing how Automix AI works.
Selecting people and animals in Photoshop will soon become much less of a hassle
It’s unclear if this upcoming time-saving Photoshop CC feature will make it into Lightroom.
Apple’s devised novel self-driving tech for detecting small obstacles using LiDAR
A new research paper from Apple’s scientists dives deeper into the company’s work on autonomous driving software that improves obstacle detection.
Apple’s op-chief: AI will transform healthcare
He says that on-device computing, coupled with the potential of AI, will really change the world.
New machine learning article from Apple goes in depth on how “Hey Siri” does its magic
It seems simple, but quite a lot goes on behind the scenes to wake up Siri quickly and efficiently with the “Hey Siri” phrase.
Apple’s latest machine learning articles detail Siri’s new synthetic voices
Among other topics of interest, the articles (written up by Apple’s engineers) lay out some of the deep learning techniques used for Siri’s new synthetic voices on iOS 11.
Apple debuts new blog dedicated to machine learning research
An all-new “Apple Machine Learning Journal” blog is meant to be a venue for the Cupertino firm to share details of its machine learning research with the community.