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uk Wednesday 03 January 2018 Advertisement Google releases its artificial intelligence software into the wild Google is open-sourcing its machine learning system, TensorFlow, in the hope that it will accelerate research into artificial intelligence Google logo Google admits that its machine learning system could work much better Photo: AFP By Sophie Curtis 3:50PM GMT 10 Nov 2015 Follow Google has announced that it is releasing its artificial intelligence software into the wild, allowing third-party developers to contribute to its evolution.
 Artificial intelligence – or what Google describes as "machine learning" – is making computers and gadgets smarter every day.
 From image recognition to voice translation and noise cancellation, Google uses machine learning in many of its products, and has pumped a huge amount of its research and development budget into improving these systems.
 Earlier this year, for example, Google engineers released the bizarre results of an artificial intelligence experiment, which saw photos interpreted and edited by the company's "neural network", which has been trained to detect faces and other patterns in images.
 Google Tree One of the images thrown up by Google's neural network Photo: Google The latest iteration of its machine learning system is known as TensorFlow, which Google claims is faster, smarter and more flexible than its predecessor, DistBelief, which Google used to demonstrate that concepts like “cat” could be learned from unlabeled YouTube images.
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" He added that TensorFlow may be useful wherever researchers are trying to make sense of very complex data, from protein folding to crunching astronomy data.
 The news comes as new research released by online marketing technology company Rocket Fuel, reveals that almost twice as many people believe artificial intelligence can solve big world problems compared to those who think it is a threat to humanity.
 Channel 4's series, Humans prompted widespread debate about the dangers of artificial intelligence - and a world increasingly reliant on robots Stephen Hawking has famously been quoted as saying that the rise of artificial intelligence could see the human race become extinct, warning that technology will eventually ''supersede'' humanity, as it develops faster than biological evolution.
 However, the research reveals that only 21 per cent of Britons see artificial intelligence as a threat or are scared by it, while 42 per cent are excited or think it can solve big world problems.
 Meanwhile, despite reports that thousands of British jobs have already been replaced by machines, only 9 per cent of people believe that artificial intelligence will threaten their job, while 10 per cent think it will enhance it.
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