Google indicated with the purchase of the popular Boston Dynamics as it wants immerse yourself in the world of robotics, acquiring even more companies previously.
You have now purchased DeepMind Technologies, a London-based startup that works on learning of neuroscience machines and systems. Adding DeepMind and Boston Dynamics could be something "terrifying", as it gives some "thought" to a robot like Big DogI don't think it is necessary to put into words the skills that this type of "machine" would take.
Leaving aside the sci-fi movies and scary cyberpunk nightmares, DeepMind, before being bought by Google was the largest independent company focused on artificial intelligence competing against Facebook, Google and other internet giants for AI talent.
The three-year-old company was founded by Demins Hassabis, a neuroscientist, AI researcher, and prodigy chess player, with the help of Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman. The startup collected $ 50 million in funds from other major technology companies and had about 50 employees, according to Re / code, which has been the one that has reported the agreement between Google and DeepMind.
If we add the three elements: Google, BigDog and DeepMind, what will be the result?
According to The Information, Google would have paid 500 million dollars for DeepMind, while Re / code indicates that the figure would drop to 400 million. Leaving aside the cost, Google has remarked who has been competing with Facebook for the acquisition of the startup.
One of the conditions imposed by DeepMind is that they want to establish an "ethics committee" that will ensure that this artificial intelligence technology It is not used for other purposes than indicated by those rules.
The agreement was announced by Larry Page, CEO of the Google company, and if Hassabis and other talents from DeepMind will finally work for Google, other AI experts will join the team such as Anna Patterson and Jeffery Dean. Futurologist Ray Kruzwel is also working at Google, which is trying create a search engine that works like a "cyber friend".
From DeepMind they highlight the agreement with the following lines, «we will combine the best machine learning techniques and neuroscience systems to create learning algorithms with very powerful general objectives. Our first commercial applications are in simulations, online commerce and games«.
Google's goals lie in powerful algorithms for fields such as image recognition, speech recognition, and in a long term reach to create a computer like the one in Star Trek. So we finally return to science fiction and cyber nightmares that perhaps in the near future haunt us in our real lives more than we would have come to think at first.
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