It's been an unusual year in tech: Apart from maybe #Snapchat 's elusive Spectacles, there hasn't been a truly game-changing, mass-market piece of technology that's totally dominated the conversation. Instead, the biggest companies in tech, especially #Facebook, #Microsoft, #Google , and #Amazon , spent their 2016 hyping up something a little more abstract: their ongoing quests to build a so-called "general artificial intelligence," and all the extra smarts they're adding to the product while they're at it. Just in the last few weeks, Google released a bunch of code from its famed #DeepMind as free open source. #Facebook issued a series of videos explaining, in simple terms, exactly how #artificialintelligence works. #Microsoft released a huge set of data to help train virtual assistants like #Siri and #Cortana. And Amazon announced #AmazonLex, a service for developers to build Alexa-like intelligence to their apps. If you ask the CEOs of these companies, it's all about building new features and functions to their apps - from facial recognition in #GooglePhotos and instantly translating comments on Facebook, to more subtle things, like using AI to intelligently route internet traffic and make it possible to virtually "teleport" with #MicrosoftHoloLens.
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-amazon-google-artificial-intelligence-2016-12
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