Joint compilation: Blake, Gao Fei Apple, Google and Facebook are investing in artificial intelligence. What are their plans? What other heavyweight players? It's hard to say exactly where the artificial intelligence (AI) goes along, but with Google, Facebook, and Google making big strides in the field, Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have been calling for The AI ​​research is regulated and monitored, and the topics related to it will definitely continue to be debated vigorously. In this article we will introduce several giants currently investing in artificial intelligence: According to sources, Facebook is using artificial intelligence technology to help blind people see through the ios phone application "see" the contents of the photo. Through the use of neural networks, applications developed by Facebook can generate a description of each photo, such as: "Three women are laughing with champagne." In addition, it is reported that Facebook also uses artificial intelligence technology to establish a detailed population density map and provide Internet access services for the world. This should help Facebook take the Internet to those places in the world that have not yet accessed the Internet. To achieve this, Facebook has analyzed 20 countries and 216 million square kilometers of land—a total of 350TB of data . Facebook also created deep learning artificial intelligence to find what is most important to Facebook users. Facebook is definitely not a new player in the field of artificial intelligence. In 2010, Facebook released facial recognition technology, which can identify people in publishing photos. In 2013, Mark Zuckerberg established a dedicated AI laboratory - Facebook FAIR RESEARCH . In order to establish the laboratory, Zuckerberg recruited Yann Lecun , a deep learning senior and New York University professor, to form the organization. Facebook has since opened up a series of tools and databases, including Torch, Chef, and FastText. Torch, for example, is a scientific computing framework supported by a large number of machine learning algorithms. It has been in existence for ten years, but the real rise is due to Facebook's open source extensive Torch deep learning modules and extensions. Another special feature of Torch is the use of the programming language Lua (which was used to develop video games). In addition, Facebook claims that fastText is much faster than other learning methods and can train the model to “process more than a billion words in 10 minutes using standard multi-core CPUsâ€, especially in contrast to the depth model, which can take training time from Reduce days to seconds. Facebook said that its plan for artificial intelligence is to implement a personalized recommendation for each user, recommending what they really care about and interested in online among users, rather than what they do not like to see. Last month, Apple made public its achievements in artificial intelligence, including siri in iPhones, identifying strange calls, listing the most frequently used applications after unlocking, and marking a date in a reminder (but you didn't put it in In the calendar) and automatically display nearby hotels, etc. Another way for Apple to invest in artificial intelligence is to buy and buy various products. So far, 15 artificial intelligence companies have been acquired. They are: Siri Voice Assistant, Novauris Speech Recognition, VocalIQ Man-Machine Conversation, Turi Machine Learning Platform, Cue Data Mining. , Matcha video recommendations, Semetric music data mining, Spotsetter map social personalized recommendation, WiFiSlam machine learning and pattern recognition, Topsy social data mining, Perceptio image recognition, Metaio computer vision, Polar Rose face recognition, Emollient face recognition, Flyby Media Computer vision. Apple did not make much publicity about how advanced artificial intelligence technology it has adopted, but they will still apply it to products as much as possible in order to obtain a better user experience. After referring to artificial intelligence as an existing threat, Elon Musk announced that he will invest 10 million US dollars in the research of safe artificial intelligence. Elon Musk initiated the OpenAI platform with several other technology giants (Amazon, LinkedIn, and PayPal). The OpenAI platform is a non-profit project whose primary goal is to develop artificial intelligence technologies that can maximize the benefits of human society. Specifically, OpenAI currently focuses on machine learning research and focuses on machine learning with two key points: unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning . After Musk, the famous physicist Hawking also warned that there is a risk of the current level of AI development. Hawking warns that artificial intelligence may eventually threaten the survival of human beings. He mentioned: "The successful creation of an artificial intelligence robot will be a milestone in human history. Unfortunately, it may also be the last one in our history. milestone." In 2014, Google spent 263 million US dollars to acquire the artificial intelligence startup Deepmind , which was acquired by the largest technology company at that time. In March 2016, AlphaGo developed by Deepmind battled the world Go champion and professional nine-segmented player Li Shishi, and won with a total score of 4:1, currently ranking second in the world. Google has been focusing on machine learning in the AI ​​field, and in the first half of the year announced that its Tensorflow is open source for everyone. Machine learning has been applied to various technologies such as image recognition, speech recognition, and translation applications. It can imitate the way the human brain works and identify patterns. Microsoft's research project aims to use the interactions between faces, emotions, and language applications to understand its users. Microsoft announced at Future Decoded that developers can now use emotional detection services to match emotional types based on human facial expressions. This type of face recognition service can classify photos based on the emotions of people in the photos. The Cambridge project currently consists of four major components: face recognition technology, language processing technology, visual tools service, and language understanding intelligence service . Below we will introduce the four main parts in detail. Face recognition technology can automatically recognize faces in photos and face similar to face, and can confirm whether the two faces are exactly the same. For example, the technology can easily identify which users are included in certain photos, allowing the user to log in to the application through facial feature recognition. A new and interesting website is able to use the face recognition technology to judge the age of a person based on photos provided by users. Language processing technology can recognize spoken language and translate it into text content, or translate text content into spoken language. Developers can use this technology to use on-the-fly tools, such as the ability to dictate textual information, automatically read instructional information, or perform other functions. The visual tools service can be used to analyze visual content to find such as inappropriate content or find a dominant color design. In addition, the service can detect and understand textual information in photos, such as the name of the team, and can organize photos according to the content conveyed by the images, such as images containing beaches, animals, or food. Finally, the service automatically edits photos to compress them into recognizable and useful pocket photos for easy browsing. The language understanding intelligence service is currently in the invitation-only testing phase, enabling applications to understand the meaning conveyed by people using spoken or spoken information in natural language. Using machine learning algorithms, these language understanding intelligent service systems have the ability to better predict customer needs based on experience, and to understand what type of service the user wants the application to provide. IBM is known for its Watson computer (a computer system that answers questions raised by natural language). Its goal is to use computers to extract meaning from photos, videos, texts, and languages. In 2011 Watson defeated his human opponents in the American quiz show "Dangerous Edge." In addition, IBM has collaborated with image processing predators Nvidia. According to reports, Nvidia provided Watson with an image processor with a response rate of 1.7 times previously. IBM is also developing a teaching aid application that can plan lessons for users based on the information provided, and will experiment with such teaching aids in New York next year. The cognitive technology represented by IBM Watson brings business into a new era. We call it the era of cognitive business. Nowadays, IBM Watson is helping all walks of life tap business value and reshape the industry. Every day, Watson creates amazing amounts of information, can write poetry, write equations, take notes, take photos, and publish status on social media. Traditional programming computers cannot fully interpret this information and data, but cognitive technology represented by IBM Watson can. Watson is adept at understanding, designed specifically for understanding, reasoning and learning. It also gives us the opportunity to overcome previously unachievable challenges and overcome obstacles that have been insurmountable, such as outsmart medical challenges, outsmart risk challenges, and outsmart the environment. Challenges, wisdom in water management challenges, outsmart fashion challenges, Zhisheng insurance fraud challenges, etc. In the near future, the next generation of computers will bring more convenience to our living and working methods. In March 2013, Microsoft closed its instant messaging software, MSN, and Skype replaced it. Skype is a global Internet phone that is gradually changing the telecommunications industry by providing free, high-quality calling services to customers worldwide. Skype is an online instant voice communication tool. With other functions required by IM, such as video chat, multi-user voice conference, multi-user chat, file transfer, text chat and other functions. It can free high-definition voice dialogue with other users, you can also call domestic and international calls, regardless of fixed telephones, mobile phones can dial directly, and can achieve call transfer, text messaging and other functions. Skype's development in the field of artificial intelligence is mainly reflected in seven languages ​​for voice and video call translation and more than 50 languages ​​for instant message translation. This feature service can break the language barrier between you and your friends, family and colleagues. The Skype translation system utilizes machine learning technology that will recognize the user's language and convert the user's language into translated text as you speak . Salesforce is a customer relationship management (CRM) software service provider that provides on-demand customer relationship management platforms. Salesforce allows customers and independent software vendors to customize and integrate their products while building their own application software. For users, they can avoid the upfront investment in hardware, software development, and complex back office issues. Salesforce cloud-based service development customer relationship management (CRM) services are divided into five major categories, including: Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Data Cloud (including Jigsaw), Collaboration Cloud (including Chatter), and Custom Cloud (including Force.com) With more than 100,000 customers, it aims to help potential customers, acquire new customers, achieve faster transactions, and perform smarter sales, service, and marketing based on the needs of different companies. In the “Fortune†magazine’s 2013 list of the 100 best employers in the world, Salesforce ranks 19th, and is ranked second only to Google, SAS, and Qualcomm in the list of technology companies. Speaking of Salesforce's investment in artificial intelligence, it has to be mentioned that in April this year, Salesforce acquired MetaMind , an emerging AI company specializing in deep learning . Salesforce CEO Richard Socher said in the blog post: "The merger of MetaMind and Salesforce will enable us to provide our customers with truly AI solutions. We will also have stronger capabilities for customer support, market automation and more automated and personalized development of other business processes. ." Previously, MetaMind had developed a unique system that used short-term memory to answer questions asked in natural language. For example, given a long text, the MetaMind system can answer questions like “What is the overall opinion of the article?â€. Shell (Royal Dutch Shell Group) is the second largest oil company in the world, headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands. It is a combination of Royal Dutch Petroleum and British Shell. It is the world’s leading oil, gas and petrochemical producer. It is also the world's largest retailer of automotive fuel and lubricants. It is also known as a pioneer in the LNG industry. The traditional oil companies like Shell, even competing for the wave of artificial intelligence, are really unexpected. Shell is the first company in the lube industry to provide artificial intelligence driven services to customers, a virtual assistant capable of answering questions posed by online customers around the clock . Clients and dealers enter questions through an online information window, and virtual Emma and Ethan respond to the appropriate answers within seconds. This kind of human-computer interaction is equivalent to conversation, but it is not a real person at the other end, but it is achieved through the use of artificial intelligence natural language interaction technology. The technology allows conversations to be conducted in normal everyday language and used in some popular personal assistant application. Shell's virtual assistants can answer questions such as where to buy lubricating oil, what type of package size can be purchased, and information on the technical performance of the product. This service can also be used to request brochures, technical data sheets, material safety data sheets, etc. As one of the hottest topics at the moment, artificial intelligence has indeed received too much attention. In the field of artificial intelligence, there are well-known technology giants and leading companies in the traditional field. They have different views on artificial intelligence investment. In the next decade, we expect artificial intelligence to be closer to the daily activities of human beings and to the benefit of human life. 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