Wolfram's Image Recognition Reflects a Big Shift in AI
Earlier this week, Stephen Wolfram unveiled a website that automatically identifies digital images. Like so much that emerges from Wolfram Research---the eponymous software company operated by the British computer scientist, physicist, entrepreneur, and all-around free thinker---the site is a good time. But after years on the fringes of computer science---with many saying it would never work---this idea is now driving everything from Facebook photo recognition to Google voice recognition to Skype language translation. Much like Facebook and Google, Wolfram and company trained their image recognition model on a cluster of machines equipped with graphics processing units, or GPUs, low-cost chips suited to the kinds of calculations that drive neural nets. Says Yann LeCun, the head of Facebook's new artificial intelligence lab: "Any smart kid with a GPU-equipped PC can do this with open source tools in his parents' basement."
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