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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Toyota Invests in AI and Robotics

In IEEE Spectrum.  Continuation of the AI re-emergence.   Talk is interesting regards to the specifics.  Location specifics understandable, but I thought by now we could use distributed expertise better.   Have followed Toyota in this area for some time, see tag link below.

" ... Toyota recently announced that it is investing US $1 billion over the next five years to establish a new R&D lab headquartered in Silicon Valley and focused on artificial intelligence and robotics. The Toyota Research Institute (TRI) plans to hire hundreds of engineers to staff a main facility in Palo Alto, Calif., near Stanford University, and a second facility located near MIT in Cambridge, Mass. Former DARPA program manager Dr. Gill Pratt was named CEO of TRI, which will begin operations in January. We spoke to Dr. Pratt to find out how TRI plans to transform pure research into practical applications, and where all that money is going. ... " 

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