“Artificial intelligence continues to be a game changer for Google — and it’s playing to win that game, its chief executive said,” Anita Balakrishnan reports for CNBC. “‘For us, we definitely see a huge opportunity. We see it as an inflection point,’ said Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet’s core Google division. ‘We started feeling it about three to four years ago.'”
“Pichai said the fight for AI between Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Google isn’t quite as vicious as HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones,’ but could be as heated as, say, an NBA championship,” Balakrishnan reports. “‘We do a variety of bench-marking studies, so we generally feel we are ahead,’ Pichai said.”
Balakrishnan reports, “He spoke Wednesday from the annual Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We feel we’re ahead of Apple and others in artificial intelligence… because we don’t give two shits about our users’ privacy and they’re easily stupid enough to let us track everything they do and everywhere they go.
TFTFY.
SEE ALSO:
Any collection of Apple customer data requires sign-off from ‘privacy czars’ – March 22, 2016
EFF files complaint asking for federal investigation; says Google broke privacy pledge, tracked students – December 1, 2015
Tim Cook gets privacy and encryption: We shouldn’t surrender them to Google – June 4, 2015
Apple CEO Tim Cook champions privacy, blasts ‘so-called free services’ – June 3, 2015
How Google aims to delve deeper into users’ lives – May 29, 2015
Apple CEO Cook: Unlike some other companies, Apple won’t invade your right to privacy – March 2, 2015
Edward Snowden’s privacy tips: ‘Get rid of Dropbox,” avoid Facebook and Google – October 13, 2014
Apple CEO Tim Cook ups privacy to new level, takes direct swipe at Google – September 18, 2014
U.S. NSA watching, tracking phone users with Google Maps – January 28, 2014
U.S. NSA secretly infiltrated Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say – October 30, 2013
Google has already inserted some U.S. NSA code into Android – July 10, 2013
Court rules NSA doesn’t have to reveal its semi-secret relationship with Google – May 22, 2013
Google Street View cars grabbed locations of cellphones, computers – July 26, 2011
Consumer Watchdog calls for probe of Google’s inappropriate relationship with Obama administration – January 25, 2011
Google CEO Schmidt: Change your name to escape ‘cyber past’ – August 18, 2010
Wired: Google, CIA Invest in ‘future’ of Web monitoring – July 29, 2010
37 states join probe into Google’s questionable Wi-Fi data collection – July 22, 2010
Google Street View Wi-Fi data included passwords and email – June 18, 2010
They were way ahead of Apple, others in glassholes as I recall. How they’ve been able to recoup any credibility following that appalling fiasco I have no clue.
No one is reading your horrifically imbecilic posts One Note Broken Record Doofus Joe from Trollvile, MO.
You have no audience or power here so begone foul one!
One Note Joe – I’ve been thinking over and over about a solution to your problems. I finally came to a brilliant solution! Just fuck off!
Either Apple’s hardware and software is the best, in which case… shut up.
Or it’s way behind, in which case go buy the better stuff.
The logic is simple. The conclusion inescapable. You have severe mental problems. Help is available. See your local health professional… or witch doctor… or electroshock specialist… SOMETHING!
Spin it all you want MDN Fanboy Brigade, but Google and even Microsoft are light-years ahead of Apple in AI and machine learning. Maybe Apple can set Eddy Cue on that project and it’ll be as successful as iCloud.
Sad but true. Siri has truly stagnated in development. Another technology that Apple has lost interest in under Tim Cook.
I believe that’s about to change at WWDC in a few days so keep your panties on. We’ll soon see how “uninterested” Tim Cook is. I love these kinds of disingenuous browbeating childish posts days before major announcements are known to be afoot. Let the doofuses have their say before being profoundly silenced and crushed by impending reality. For now.
Bwahahahaha, “days before major announcements”. Woohoo, new Coach watch bands are just around the corner.
Speaking of panties:
Barack Obama: “When we get to the White House, I’m going to Michelle’s bedroom and rip her panties off!”
Joe Biden: “Are you feeling frisky?”
Barack Obama: “No, they keep crawling up my butt!”
You are how old?
How incredibly misinformed people can be.
Yes, Apple has abandoned the DIRECTION SIRI was going, but only because a much better direction has surfaced in the AI technology developed by VocalIQ. VocalIQ is an order of magnitude (probably more) ahead of anything the competition is working on, and most importantly, Apple owns them.
Read Apple Insider’s review of VocalIQ vs the competition:
http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/05/30/apples-vocaliq-takeover-could-hint-at-siri-upgrades-for-wwdc-and-beyond
So Apple is planning on integrating it into Siri or replacing Siri? Integration may be somewhat difficult and still won’t solve the general use that the others have of accessing 3rd party apps on the device. I understand Apple is trying to remedy this by providing an API that app developers can use but that still requires the developer to implement it. Until that portion is also addressed the new voice AI may be better at parsing but will still remain functionally behind. Another thing I wonder is whether VocalIQ is only proficient in English.
I don’t use Siri anymore. Tried a few times and it was awful. Doesn’t know very much and if I just wanted it to return a link to a web page, I could have done that myself. They need to sink time and money into this service or they’ll keep falling behind. I’m hopeful the IBM partnership and potential access to Watson’s AI will help.
Not sure about Gaagle’s lead in AI; but Gaagle is light years ahead in genuine stupidity. 🖖😀⌚️
Actually, most of their intelligence is artificial! Just doesn’t taste the same, does it? 🙂
AI for Google, MSFT and Facebook is actually tracking user’s privacy, behaviors and inputs.
You bet they are well ahead!!!
Apple still buys their AI expertise.. Gotta get a team together to push it further.
Google : “Yeah we’re way ahead in AI. We call it ‘I Robot’ from our Ultron program within our Skynet division”
And we all know how they turned out…
Okay kids. Look. Read this carefully. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon if you wanna include them, are ahead because they let their AI do whatever it wants. Take image recognition. If you let AI do all it can at this point, you may have an image of a man, but get “man riding a skateboard at night,” from the AI. Do you think that’s cool? Do you think it’s advanced? Good for you, you should fit in with Google nicely. The point is, not every advancement is ready for accurate usage. Take Facebook’s photo descriptions for the blind. Currently, it may say if a photo contains a person, if it’s taken indoors or outdoors, or even if it has food in the picture. Why not more? Because then the AI might say something that’s not even there. Come on Google folks, think. Apple values accurate AI, not an AI that’ll just happily spit out anything just because it can.
A.I. doesn’t happen at a higher level, if you can’t do in-house hardware and software design/engineering together. Google, MS and Amazon far behind.
Alphabet was also far ahead of Apple in robotics. So far ahead, they decided to sell their robotics company to Toyota. I guess it was too big a success for Alphabet to handle.
This sounds much more interesting than what Google recently announced:
View at Medium.com
I highly recommend watching the video presentation at the end of the page. There will be a future where no one will be able to hide from their emotions. I’m looking forward to the day when Apple Glasses will immediately inform me that the woman I just passed in the store is interested in my strapping attire (shorts and flip-flops).
“A feeling is not much to go on…” – Mr. Spock
Google has been lured into a false sense of advanced security.
It’s a bit off saying that the reason that Apple is behind on AI is because they care about privacy (they do) and Google etc. doesn’t (they don’t). In that you can have both privacy and good AI. Relevant article on topic:
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple-can-eat-your-privacy-and-still-have-good-ai-too
Google’s approach:
1. Keep throwing money at useless projects which can bring good media coverage. Dont bother if they fail… Examples: tons of messaging apps, glasshole, modular phones, 100+
2. When a product is successful just clone it with the support of thieves and manage it by lobbying govt.