Apple to Start Publishing AI Research

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Post by rayuela » Tue, Dec 06, 2016, 7:29 PM UTC

Apple to Start Publishing AI Research
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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 06, 2016, 7:55 PM UTC

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Post by deepnotderp » Tue, Dec 06, 2016, 8:00 PM UTC

Yay! I never thought I'd ever see this though.

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Post by amelius » Tue, Dec 06, 2016, 8:02 PM UTC

Of course! What researcher would want to work for a company that prohibits scientific publications?

I've always been amazed by their attitude.

Look at Microsoft Research, and their enormous scientific output over the years. IBM and Google look bleak by comparison, and Apple is not even on the chart.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 06, 2016, 8:04 PM UTC

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Post by deelowe » Tue, Dec 06, 2016, 8:07 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #4

Of course! What researcher would want to work for a company that prohibits scientific publications? I've always been amazed by their attitude. Look at Microsoft Research, and their enormous scientific output over the years. IBM and Google look bleak by comparison, and Apple is not even on the chart.

Not sure how this stacks up against MS, but Google's research is posted here: https://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html

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Post by ktamiola » Tue, Dec 06, 2016, 8:13 PM UTC

and what would it be? ... What have Apple developed that goes beyond currently available peer-reviewed work, done by Deep Mind?

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Post by adenadel » Tue, Dec 06, 2016, 8:15 PM UTC

deelowe wrote: post #6

amelius wrote: post #4

Of course! What researcher would want to work for a company that prohibits scientific publications? I've always been amazed by their attitude. Look at Microsoft Research, and their enormous scientific output over the years. IBM and Google look bleak by comparison, and Apple is not even on the chart.

Not sure how this stacks up against MS, but Google's research is posted here: https://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html

From that page, it looks like Google has published 4359 papers. From this page, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/about/ Microsoft claims to have published over 10000 papers.

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Post by pducks32 » Tue, Dec 06, 2016, 8:15 PM UTC

ktamiola wrote: post #7

and what would it be? ... What have Apple developed that goes beyond currently available peer-reviewed work, done by Deep Mind?

You'll have to wait and find out!

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Post by Cyph0n » Tue, Dec 06, 2016, 8:15 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #4

Of course! What researcher would want to work for a company that prohibits scientific publications? I've always been amazed by their attitude. Look at Microsoft Research, and their enormous scientific output over the years. IBM and Google look bleak by comparison, and Apple is not even on the chart.

If you consider the number of papers published over the lifetime of IBM, and the fact that IBM Research does work in all levels of computing (materials science -> software), Microsoft's research output looks minuscule in comparison. But if you're considering only CS research, then you might be right.

Here is a nice snapshot of the major contributions that came out of IBM Research over the past 60 years: http://www.research.ibm.com/featured/history/. Edit: the invention of copper interconnects is enough for me to be frank (http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/copperc...).

On a similar note, Intel is another company that is very active in research and has published a significant amount of peer-reviewed publications. Samsung Research is yet another; they have an amazing presence at circuit design conferences, for instance.