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Nature. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Journal of the American Medical Association.
These are some the most elite academic journals in the world. And last year, one tech company, Alphabet's Google, published papers in all of them.
The unprecedented run of scientific results by the Mountain View search giant touched on everything from ophthalmology to computer games to neuroscience and climate models. For Google, 2016 was an annus mirabilis during which its researchers cracked the top journals and set records for sheer volume.
Behind the surge is Google's growing investment in artificial intelligence, particularly "deep learning," a technique whose ability to make sense of images and other data is enhancing services like search and translation (see "10 Breakthrough Technologies 2013: Deep Learning").
According to the tally Google provided to MIT Technology Review, it published 218 journal or conference papers on machine learning in 2016, nearly twice as many as it did two years ago.
We sought out similar data from the Web of Science, a service of Clarivate Analytics, which confirmed the upsurge. Clarivate said that the impact of Google's publications, according to a measure of publication strength it uses, was four to five times the world average. Compared to all companies that publish prolifically on artificial intelligence, Clarivate ranks Google No. 1 by a wide margin.
Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603984/googles-ai-explosion-in-one-chart/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 30 2017, @12:08AM
They can certainly afford the research. Let's hope they do something good.