Apple names John Giannandrea to its executive team as SVP of ML and AI Strategy
The promotion highlights the growing importance of machine learning and artificial intelligence at the Cupertino firm.
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How Siri recognizes obscurely named points of interest like local restaurants & businesses
Siri’s speech recognition system is paired with a bunch of geolocation-based language models allowing the smart assistant to recognize obscurely named places on a map.
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.
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.
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.
How Apple’s on-device facial detection works
Rather than scan your photos in the cloud, all image analysis is done directly on your device.
Apple’s embarrassing “i → A [?]” autocorrect bug could be a machine learning problem
The machine learning algorithm for iOS’s autocorrect QuickType keyboard feature was reportedly learning something it never should have learned.
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.