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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: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Thursday September 08 2016, @02:06AM
And then it's not really gaining insight, or learning, or hypothesising.
Having deep memory of every possible move and statistics of each possible outcome pretty much trumps insight.
Human insight after all may be a coping mechanism for our inability to have all possible actions cataloged ahead of time.
Learning then, becomes simply a matter of updating the statistics when actual outcomes become known.
These things are all possible today, and are done already.
The programs may have been written by humans (and even this is not strictly true any more), but the data is amassed by the machine and future actions adjusted to take into account moves that didn't work out, or those that did, or those that didn't matter.
We probably have to stop thinking in strictly human terms. And if we don't we will be beaten with our own stick.
As long as we think our chemical brain is so superior, we are bound to be overtaken sooner or later by a digital mind or a hive of digital minds.
Mankind simply can't seem to help himself from creating skynet.
Don't get too comfortable.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.