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Google's AI 'TensorFlow' Software Is Coming To iOS (cnet.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the you-can't-teach-an-old-dog-new-tricks dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Google published an early version of TensorFlow that adds support for iOS. TensorFlow is "neural network" software that lets computers process data in a way similar to our own brain cells. Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently said it advances machine learning capability by a factor of three generations. With the software running on your iPhone, its capabilities will allow for more sophisticated apps to run on iOS. We can expect the apps to be released later this year and into next year from Google and others who use TensorFlow. Some of the tasks TensorFlow can allow for include being able to recognize subjects in photographs or being able to teach your phone what a particular object looks like, which is what another neural network software project called MemKite aims to do. Google has released its TensorFlow software as open source, where anyone can use or modify it for free.

2 of 33 comments (clear)

  1. Spyware by khchung · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why would I want to install Google spyware on my Google-free iPhone?

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    Oliver.
  2. Re:hype from google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    there is no new technological breakthrough here, that " advances machine learning capability by a factor of three generations", instead this is another implementation of a, long known, trade off that increase computation power/capability by decreasing precision.

    Actually, it's worse than that, and it looks like a submitter and/or editor error. That quote about 3 generations (and the associated /. link) refers to a hardware coprocessor designed by goog that is, from their declarations, what they run their in-house branch of the tensorflow software on.

    The submission is thin on fact and heavy on the word salad, since 'hey, we tagged v0.9 RC0 with iOS support on github' would have been too terse, I suppose. And python3.5 support, OSX gpu processing support, nevermind more specific imporvements, are apparently too obscure for the submitter to mention. Because iOS, perhaps.