The massive hiring effort by Apple in Artificial Intelligence y Machine Learning has affected its barricades, as the company is increasingly finding more difficult recruit scientists, engineers and artificial intelligence experts, due to your own strict privacy policies that prevent those engineers from recovering valuable user data.
In other words, according to a report by Reuters published Monday, some of the brightest minds in artificial intelligence are not interested in working for a company that does not value and respect the privacy of its users.
Apple is struggling with match in this topic with Google, Amazon, Facebook and other companies. Apple needs new talents to move forward, Siri a personal digital assistant that debuted with the launch of the iPhone 4S in October. 2011It is not enough in the technological advances that we find.
The company is currently attempting to hire at least 86 employees with experience in the branch of Artificial Intelligence, known as the «learning machine"Based on an analysis of Apple job postings.
Although the company does not disclose the number of people working on its efforts to achieve an improvement in AI (Artificial Intelligence), a former employee estimated that the number of machine learning experts had triplicate o quadruplicate in recent years.
In addition to the iPhone maker, it is also hiring machine learning experts for divisions such as Product commercialization and retail, suggesting a broad effort to capitalize on this type of data.
Google for its part, it has a much deeper knowledge of users, which is derived from a continuous analysis of the data collected in the cloud, Its searches, sites websites they visited and much more.
They want to make a phone that answers you very quickly without the knowledge of the rest of the world, he said Jose González, co-founder of Dato, a machine learning startup.
Via [Reuters]