by Wired
Andrew Ng hands me a tiny device that wraps around my ear and connects to a smartphone via a small cable. Ng, co-founder of Coursera, is the chief scientist at Chinese tech giant Baidu, and this is one of the company’s latest prototypes. It’s called DuLight. The device contains a tiny camera that captures whatever is in front of you and sends the images to an app on your smartphone. The app analyzes the images, determines what they depict, and generates an audio description that’s heard through to your earpiece. Ng’s prototype relies on a technology called deep learning. Inside the massive computer data centers that underpin Baidu’s online services, the company runs massive neural networks—networks of hardware and software that approximate the web of neurons in the human brain. By analyzing enormous collections of digital images, these networks can learn to identify objects, written words, even human faces.
http://www.wired.com/2016/01/2015-was-the-year-ai-finally-entered-the-everyday-world/
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