At the just-concluded Conference on Workshop and Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), tech companies including NVIDIA and Tesla showcased their latest research and development programs and high-tech products, Innovative Apple's company, of course, is not far behind, and Ruslan Salakhutdinov, head of artificial intelligence, revealed at the meeting several autopilot-related projects.
One of the highlights of note is the project mentioned last month by Apple's official paper that teaches a three-dimensional point cloud system to identify past vehicles and pedestrians.
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In addition, he talked about several other R & D projects such as the use of on-board cameras to classify road targets during driving and use cameras to pinpoint their location, a feature known as Instant Positioning and Map Building location and mapping (SLAM) technology can be used not only for autonomous driving but also for augmented reality / virtual reality.
In fact, Apple has always been rumors of 'making cars', some details are occasionally outflow, they have been actively applying for California's autopilot license is the best example.And Apple's CEO Cook has Bloomberg Talking about their idea of 'focusing on autopilot' and even describing autopilot technology as the 'mother of AI,' we see Apple's direction and determination to embrace artificial intelligence.
Of course, autopilot is just the tip of the iceberg of Apple's strategic landscape, and their efforts go way beyond that. For example, Professor Carlos Guestrin, head of machine learning at Apple, talked about their positive attempts at machine learning at NIPS, most notably A representative technology is the facial recognition system tailored to the new iPhone X.
To date, Apple has always had the impression of being 'conservative in research and development' or 'lack of patents', but this is only a misconception that Apple is generally reluctant to disclose their R & D results compared to companies such as Google and Facebook , As long as it does not leak any information about its own next-generation products to its competitors.
But now, with the warming of artificial intelligence, the relevant research talent will be hard to find, Apple also began to gradually change its original kind of 'low-key', 'dumb' behavior Guestrin revealed that Apple is open source called Turi Create tool that will make it easier to develop machine learning, so it's clear that Apple has been more aggressively involved in this battle for AI.