Google Aims To Come Up ‘Smarter’ Smartphones That Can identify Faces
Google, in partnership with Silicon Valley smartphone chipmaker Movidius, is in an innovative quest to inject artificial intelligence (AI) into smartphones.
What the search engine giant intends to do would surely recreate our technological not-so-distant future. Today's chic-looking and sophisticated handsets would surely become primitive relics relegated to museums many years from now.
So what can these futuristic smartphones do?
By applying deep-learning technologies into mobile devices, Google-designed phones would have human-like capabilities to speak, understand pictures and images, write, and even solve problems free from human intervention as reported by Top Tech News.
Google is keen on using Movidius computer processors to operate a highly advanced neural computing mobile machine. Such partnership will allow both tech firms to mutually reinforce each other's innovative research and development.
"Movidius' mission is to bring visual intelligence to devices so that they can understand the world in a more natural way. This partnership with Google will allow us to accelerate that vision in a tangible way," exclaimed Movidius CEO Remi El-Ouazzane in an official statement quoted by PCMag.
Neural computing technologies are still largely confined to highly-advanced supercomputers such as those manufactured by IBM. Google plans to make it accessible to the consumers via compact and portable devices.
"By working with Movidius, we're able to expand this technology beyond the data center and out into the real world, giving people the benefits of machine intelligence on their personal devices," remarked Blaise Agϋera y Arcas who leads Google's machine intelligence group as quoted saying by the Wall Street Journal.
