“In what may be another sign that Apple is getting serious about cars, the company has hired Jonathan Cohen, the director of deep learning for chip-maker Nvidia,” Mark Bergen reports for Re/code.
“Nvidia is best-known for its graphics products used for computer games, but it has recently been pushing into the world of autonomous vehicles,” Bergen reports. “Cohen reported the change on his LinkedIn page… Apple currently uses deep learning tech for things like its maps and voice recognition with Siri. Cohen’s new LinkedIn bio doesn’t spell out what he’s up to. ‘I build software,’ it reads.”
“Apple is building up a sizable internal operation around cars. Last week, CEO Tim Cook said that a ‘massive change’ is coming to the industry,” Bergen reports. “‘This is a big hire for Apple,’ Chris Nicholson, co-founder of deep learning startup Skymind.io. ‘Nvidia’s GPUs are being used to power auto-pilot systems in cars, so the implications are pretty clear.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Jonathan Cohen at CES 2015 explaining Nvidia Drive PX Deep Learning:
Fascinating. I’m loving seeing all of this research finally starting to deliver sciFi level fruit.
Today I let the Autopilot on my Tesla take control. Nerve-wracking at first but as you begin to trust what it can do it becomes more and more like “SciFi level fruit”. The future is already here!
So agree.
so this is how we get skynet
And then we get robo cops
Nah, I want Rosie the Robot.
Rosie O’donald-bot
Nice. Way to keep it classy.
You broke the thread. Your next option could have been McDonald-bot.
I don’t want that crap delivered to me, automatically or not
A self-driving car will be Apple’s first “robot.” Eventually, a significant portion of Apple’s business will be in robotics.
Ken you’ve been banging this drum for years. At first I thought you were crazy. Then for a while I kind of chuckled. Now I’m 100% onboard. Way to see the way bro.
Sorry, did you see the US manufacturing facility making the Mac Pro? i am sure that there are far more robots Apple has designed and is using in the assembly of many of their products, to technically this would be their first “robot PRODUCT”