What Google’s New Open-Source Software Means for Artificial-Intelligence Research

"Google wants the artificial-intelligence software that drives the company’s Internet searches to become the standard platform for computer-science scholars in their own experiments.
On Monday, Google announced it would turn its machine-learning software, called TensorFlow, into open-source code, so anyone can use it.
“We hope this will let the machine-learning community — everyone from academic researchers, to engineers, to hobbyists — exchange ideas much more quickly, through working code rather than just research papers,” Google announced on its website.
Until now, researchers have had access to similar open-source software: Torch, built by researchers at New York University, as well as Caffe and Theano, are also open to everyone. TensorFlow is meant to combine the best of the three, Jeff Dean, a top engineer at Google, told Wired."

via http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/

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