Apple planning to ramp up machine learning, hires AI researcher from Carnegie Mellon – Tech2

Whether we believe it or not, there is a shift in the pattern of tech companies as they adopt newer technologies with open arms. Artificial Intelligence, seems to be on the agenda of most of these companies, be it Microsoft, Google, Facebook or even Apple. To ramp up AI, Apple has made a prominent hire of a AI researcher from Carnegie Mellon University – Russ Salakhutdinov. The announcement came from Salakhutdinov via Twitter. This role will be in addition to his work at CMU.