Apple hires its first director of AI research

Apple is getting serious about artificial intelligence. It's just hired its first director of AI. And not just anyone -- it's hired Ruslan Salakhutdinov, an associate professor in machine learning at one of the top institutions for AI, Carnegie Mellon University. Salakhutdinov has been working on some pretty intense AI research. He primarily researches deep learning and neural networks, where computers learn from a large pool of examples.