谷歌推出史上最强人脸识别系统

    还有几家科技创业公司正将深度学习技术用于实时分析医疗图像，并提供诸如文本分析、计算机视觉及语音识别这类云计算服务项目。近年来，Twitter、Pinterest,、Dropbox、雅虎和谷歌等公司都收购了一些专攻深度学习技术的创业公司。IBM公司刚刚收购了一家位于丹佛，名为AlchemyAPI的初创企业，用以提升其Watson超级计算机的智能水平，并支持其全新的Bluemix云平台（该平台的理念是：开发者可以方便地将移动和网络应用与云服务连接起来，借以打造一些智能应用，而无需再钻研人工智能背后复杂的计算机科学）。

    不止于此。随着消费级机器人、无人驾驶汽车及智能家居逐渐成为现实，深度学习技术也将如影随形，为我们这些新玩具提供耳目和一些头脑功能。美国国防部高级研究计划局（DARPA）也在探索如何借助深度学习技术来实时理解庞大的情报信息流。

    我猜想，DARPA正在关注谷歌的FaceNet系统，并为之激动。（财富中文网）

    译者：清远

    审校：任文科

    There are also several technology startups using deep learning to analyze medical images in real time, and to provide capabilities such as text analysis, computer vision, and voice recognition as cloud computing services. Twitter, Pinterest, Dropbox, Yahoo, and Google have all acquired deep learning startups in recent years. And IBM IBM -0.08% just bought a Denver-based startup called AlchemyAPI to help make its Watson system smarter and bolster its new Bluemix cloud platform. (The idea: Developers can easily connect mobile and web applications to cloud services and therefore build smart applications without ever studying the complex computer science that underpins artificial intelligence.)

    That’s not all. As consumer robots, driverless cars and smart homes become real, deep learning will be there, too, providing the eyes, ears, and some of the brains for our new toys. DARPA, the U.S. Department of Defense’s research agency, is also investigating how deep learning techniques might be able to help it make sense of the streams of communications crossing intelligence networks everyday.

    Something tells me it’s looking at Google’s FaceNet and getting pretty excited, too.