The Important Technology Ever is Here - CML News

Written by Ophir Gottlieb and Jason Hitchings PREFACE It's coming. It will impact almost everything: communication will be revolutionized, entertainment will expand, business structures will be transformed. It is one of the revolutionary themes, one of the fundamental shifts coming in the very near future that will change how we live, work, and play. " This is a technology whose consumer base looks increasingly like [all of] humanity. Source: Dave Thier, Forbes Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), International Business Machine (NYSE:IBM) and China's Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) are already in. Google acquired deep learning research group DeepMind for half a billion dollars in 2014. IBM acquired AlchemyAPI last year and Apple made two acquisitions in just four days. The next "big thing" is Virtual Reality --it's larger than anyone is forecasting, and the likely victor will not be any of the companies we just listed above. This is the opportunity so many investors say they welcome -- say they search for. The opportunity to find the "Next Apple," or the "next Google." Friends, it's coming right now, and it lies in the depths of technology's core. " Recent breakthroughs in GPU-accelerated deep-learning techniques have made it possible to reach exceptional improvements in pattern recognition.