Day: January 2, 2014

Google acquires DeepMind for $500 million, deep learning is now the focus of several tech companies

Late last year, Google began talks with DeepMind, the London-based artificial intelligence company, which has now been confirmed for almost $500 million. In describing the company’s vision, Larry Wasserman, a Professor in the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon, wrote, “The startup is trying to build a system that thinks by combining machine learning and