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Google Teams p With Oxford Academics to Bring Human-Like Robots Closer to Reality
Google is working with artificial intelligence researchers at Oxford University to help machines better understand their users.
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Google is collaborating with Oxford University artificial intelligence (AI) researchers to help machines better understand users, and to improve visual-recognition systems using deep learning.
"It is a really exciting time for AI research these days, and progress is being made on many fronts, including image recognition and natural language understanding," says Demis Hassabis, co-founder of DeepMind and vice president of engineering at Google. "We are delighted to announce a partnership with Oxford University to accelerate Google's research efforts in these areas."
Four Oxford researchers, who together co-founded Dark Blue Labs earlier this year, will work with Google on machine-learning technology. Three other Oxford professors, who co-founded Vision Factory, will work on visual-recognition systems.
"These exciting partnerships underline how committed Google DeepMind is to supporting the development of U.K. academia and the growth of strong scientific research labs," Hassabis says.
Google also is working with physicist John Martinis to build processors based on quantum theories. His hire is part of a hardware initiative to design and build chips operating on sub-atomic levels in ways that makes them much faster than existing processors, according to Google.
From Daily Mail (United Kingdom)
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