Apple believes it is the leader in machine learning, even over Google – IAM Network

John Giannandrea, Apple's head of AI, sat down for an interview with Ars Technica to talk about the company's approach to machine learning and why he believes Apple is ahead of everyone else in the game. When asked about his experience when first joining the company, Giannandrea talked about how he found out that Apple did not even have a machine learning team working on handwriting for the Apple Pencil. He says things have changed dramatically since then. "When I joined Apple, I was already an iPad user, and I loved the Pencil. So, I would track down the software teams and I would say, 'Okay, where's the machine learning team that's working on handwriting?' And I couldn't find it. I knew that there was so much machine learning that Apple should do that it was surprising that not everything was actually being done. And that has changed dramatically in the last two to three years. I really honestly think there's not a corner of iOS or Apple experiences that will not be transformed by machine learning over the coming few years."