Uber Acquires Geometric Intelligence, Increasing Commitment to AI [Video] - Futurum

This past week Uber announced the acquisition of an Artificial Intelligence company called Geometric Intelligence. With this acquisition Uber will officially be creating Uber AI Labs, a think tank within Uber that will be looking at all of the utilizations for Artificial Intelligence within the organization. Over the past few months, Uber has discussed its desire to be able to roll out an autonomous vehicle fleet. To accomplish this task, Uber is going to have to build a level of AI that can handle many unique situations. The Geometric Intelligence team is working on the types of deep learning and AI that could potentially help Uber to accomplish this in a shorter period of time.