Tag: alphabet

• Inside Google’s Civil War

  May 20, 2019

  It started in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2018, when 100 employees walked out of Google’s office at 11:10 a.m. local time. Thirteen hours later, the elevators at the company’s New… more ›

• Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program

  March 27, 2019

  In 2013, the company started an ambitious, flashy effort to create robots. Now, its goals are more modest, but the technology is subtly more advanced. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/technology/google-robotics-lab.html more ›

• DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence

  March 18, 2019

  One afternoon in August 2010, in a conference hall perched on the edge of San Francisco Bay, a 34-year-old Londoner called Demis Hassabis took to the stage. https://www.1843magazine.com/features/deepmind-and-google-the-battle-to-control-artificial-intelligence more ›

• This Person Does Not Exist

  March 2, 2019

  StyleGAN (Dec 2018) – Karras et al. and Nvidia Original GAN (2014) – Goodfellow et al. https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/?utm_source=Benedict%27s+newsletter&utm_campaign=411f18f2e8-Benedict%27s+Newsletter_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-411f18f2e8-70754709 more ›

• Cameras that understand: portrait mode and Google Lens

  February 13, 2019

  I’ve talked quite a lot about the impact of machine learning and computer vision in general on everything from e-commerce recommendation to social to all kinds of cool industrial applications,… more ›

• The era of the camera: Google Lens, one year in

  December 31, 2018

  There is, of course, the vacation beach pic, the kid’s winter recital, and the one–or ten–obligatory goofy selfie(s). But there’s also the book that caught my eye at a friend’s… more ›

• Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality

  December 31, 2018

  Forecasting musical taste. Detecting metastatic tumors. Generating synthetic scans of brain cancer. Creating virtual environments from real-world videos. Identifying victims of human trafficking. Defeating chess grand masters and expert Dota 2 esports… more ›

• Google’s DeepMind aces protein folding

  December 7, 2018

  Google’s DeepMind aces protein folding Turns out mastering chess and Go was just for starters. On 2 December, the Google-owned artificial intelligence firm DeepMind took top honors in the 13th… more ›

• The Friendship That Made Google Huge

  December 4, 2018

  The Friendship That Made Google Huge One day in March of 2000, six of Google’s best engineers gathered in a makeshift war room. The company was in the midst of… more ›

• Inside Chronicle, Alphabet’s cybersecurity moonshot

  November 30, 2018

  Inside Chronicle, Alphabet’s cybersecurity moonshot Fifteen years ago, cybersecurity could be boiled down to a simple strategy: Secure the perimeter. Experts fought against malware and other nefarious code by implementing… more ›