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Intel is acquiring computer vision startup Movidius for an undisclosed sum in order to bolster its RealSense gesture-sensing platform:
Today, [Intel] announced that it is acquiring the computer vision startup behind Google's Project Tango 3D-sensor tech, Movidius.
In a blog post, Movidius CEO Remi El-Ouazzane announced that his startup will continue in its goal of giving "the power of sight to machines" as it works with Intel's RealSense technology. Movidius has seen a great deal of interest in its radically low-powered computer vision chipset, signing deals with major device makers, including Google, Lenovo and DJI.
[...] "We're on the cusp of big breakthroughs in artificial intelligence," wrote El-Ouazzane. "In the years ahead, we'll see new types of autonomous machines with more advanced capabilities as we make progress on one of the most difficult challenges of AI: getting our devices not just to see, but also to think."
The company's Myriad 2 family of Vision Processor Units are being used at Lenovo to build the company's next generation of virtual reality products while Google struck a deal with the company to deploy its neural computation engine on the platform to push the machine learning power of mobile devices.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday September 07 2016, @10:23PM
A better way to think of true AI is the ability for the computer to reprogram itself with an ever increasingly complex collections of algorithms. It has to truly form its own decisions through self generated code. As it stands, today's AI is little more than a bunch of if/else or switch statements inside of loops. About as generic as you can get.
(Score: 2) by nishi.b on Wednesday September 07 2016, @11:44PM
Do we even have that ability ourselves ? I mean we can learn, but I don't think I would be able to design and implement in my own visual system a new way of detecting objects moving towards me...