The Artificial Intelligence Arms Race in Silicon Valley Is On

The Artificial Intelligence Arms Race in Silicon Valley Is On: "Today, Facebook announced it hired NYU professor and machine learning pioneer Yann LeCun to run its newly created artificial intelligence lab. Scooping up one of the biggest names in the field is a major move for the company, but it's not a surprising one. If anything, Facebook is late to enter to the AI arms race that's underway in Silicon Valley. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, IBM, a spattering of startups, and even Baidu, the "Chinese Google," have been eager to invest chunks of their research and acquisitions budgets into artificial intelligence lately, specifically deep learning, LeCun's specialty."