Batu69 Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 TensorFlow to help your phone find cats and, you know, everything else TensorFlow: Open source machine learning Video Google is helping bring HAL to life by open sourcing its machine learning software.The software, called TensorFlow, is the successor to the DistBelief system that the online giant used for the past five years to make sense of the vast amounts of data it has access to. DistBelief has sifted email for spam, scanned YouTube videos for cars or cats, improved speech recognition and many other applications. But it was closely tied in with Google internal systems and was difficult to configure.Now the Chocolate Factory has decided to open up a version of the simpler and more flexible TensorFlow under the Apache 2.0 open source license in an effort to encourage its broader use."We hope this will let the machine learning community – everyone from academic researchers, to engineers, to hobbyists – exchange ideas much more quickly, through working code rather than just research papers," said Google's head honcho Sundar Pichai."And that, in turn, will accelerate research on machine learning, in the end making technology work better for everyone. Bonus: TensorFlow is for more than just machine learning. It may be useful wherever researchers are trying to make sense of very complex data."TensorFlow can be applied to any dataset that can be reduced to a flow chart, Google claims, and comes within a Python or C++ framework. The open source license means it can be used by pretty much anyone, so long as the Apache 2.0 rules are followed.Google says the software will run on everything from a smartphone or single CPU system all the way up to a data center cluster. The firm is asking users to also develop simplified wrapper and interface generator (SWIG) interfaces for languages like Go, Java, Lua, Javascript, and R.So why is Google giving all this good stuff away? Well, as the adage goes; if something is free then you are the product, and that's the case here.Google wants developers and researchers to use TensorFlow so that it has a large enough installed base that it helps Google. All the people using the software are a potential pool of talent to hire from and a way of making Google's machine learning approach more common.It's the same strategy that Facebook took in January when its AI researchers open sourced the social media site's Torch machine learning software so that others could develop with it, and there have already been participants doing just that.Google is playing it smart with its AI strategy, and getting a powerful engine like TensorFlow is great for developers. Sure, self-interest is a part of this too, but in the end it's a win-win for everyone.News source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humble3d Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Google opens the learning door... Google wants everyone to have access to its machine learning technology Google on Monday announced TensorFlow, a new machine learning system that is being utilized throughout Google’s line of products. The new system is “faster, smarter, and more flexible” than the previous iteration, which allows Google to scale down to a single smartphone or up to an entire datacenter full of computers. Now Google wants everyone to have access to TensorFlow. DON’T MISS: Costco’s huge pre-Black Friday sale ad posted: Killer prices on HDTVs, computers and more “We’ve seen firsthand what TensorFlow can do, and we think it could make an even bigger impact outside Google,” writes Google CEO Sundar Pichai. “So today we’re also open-sourcing TensorFlow.” By open-sourcing the system, Google believes researchers, developers and hobbyists will be able to share their ideas more efficiently than ever before. It’s one set of tools that lets everyone try their ideas and move them directly into real products. TensorFlow is already playing a major part in speech recognition, search in Google Photos and even the new Smart Reply feature. Check out a video of Google employees explaining the machine learning system below: TAGS:GOOGLE, TENSORFLOWhttps://bgr.com/2015/11/09/google-tensorflow-machine-learning-system/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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