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Google Is Partnering With Raspberry Pi To Create AI (zdnet.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the coming-soon dept.

Google is planning to bring artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to the diminutive Raspberry Pi this year. The Raspberry Pi Foundation said in a statement, "Google is going to arrive in style in 2017. The tech titan has exciting plans for the maker community." ZDNet reports: The advertising-to-cloud-computing giant intends to make a range of smart tools available this year, according to the Foundation. "Google's range of AI and machine learning technology could enable makers to build even more powerful projects," it said. Google has developed a huge range of tools for machine learning, IoT, wearables, robotics, and home automation, and it wants Raspberry Pi fans to fill out a survey that will help it to understand what tools to provide. The survey mentions face- and emotion-recognition and speech-to-text translation, as well as natural language processing and sentiment analysis. "The tech giant also provides powerful technology for navigation, bots, and predictive analytics. The survey will help them get a feel for the Raspberry Pi community, but it'll also help us get the kinds of services we need," said the Foundation.

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  1. AI? by Camel+Pilot · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is it a bit presumptuous to call it AI? Machine learning yeah OK but AI? Really.

  2. Simple: Cloud by DrYak · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is google.
    Their AI offering don't have any installable component, not even on clusters.
    They only provide APIs.

    So the 1.2 GHz AArch64 running on your Pi3 will only take care to connect over HTTPS to some RESTful API.

    And Google is trying to attract developers to their API as fast as possible, to avoid being beaten to the hackers IoT market dominance by other competitors.
    (e.g.:
    Microsoft has announced they open API access to their Bing/Cortana offerings,
    Alexa from Amazon has even been featured on a few instructables.com on Raspberry Pis,
    Houndify is also entering the market with an API specially oriented to easilly add Voice-to-Meaning to 3rd party apps, etc.)

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  3. Re:Sure by Jason1729 · · Score: 3, Informative

    You're right about that over exaggeration except you're the one doing it. The Apple II came out 40 years ago this April. The Altair 8800 article that inspired Bill Gates was years old by that point. This is also the 40th anniversary of the TRS-80 and Commodore PET.

    It would be a smaller exaggeration than your nugget to say there were 1000 different *models* of home computer on the market 40 years ago.