Monday, February 18, 2013

The Advance of AI & Neural Networks

Here’s an article from Wired today

How Google Retooled Android With Help From Your Brain

By Robert McMillan

02.18.13

6:30 AM

A picture of the human voice, courtesy the AndroSpectro app. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired

When Google built the latest version of its Android mobile operating system, the web giant made some big changes to the way the OS interprets your voice commands. It installed a voice recognition system based on what’s called a neural network — a computerized learning system that behaves much like the human brain.

For many users, says Vincent Vanhoucke, a Google research scientist who helped steer the effort, the results were dramatic. “It kind of came as a surprise that we could do so much better by just changing the model,” he says.

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