AI research has the potential to boost developments in self-driving cars and automated factories, translation products and facial recognition software, among other innovations. Chinese search engine Baidu’s team was banned for a year for breaking the rules during the 2015 competition. “There’s a trend of AI talent in China being quite young,” she said. For now it is focusing on making use of Chinese talent. The China centre will join Google’s other research facilities outside of its Silicon Valley hub, including in New York, Toronto, London and Zurich.

Source: New Strait Times December 13, 2017 09:11 UTC