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 Photograph: Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images Artificial intelligence (AI) Google updates TensorFlow, its open source artificial intelligence Google answers plea from users with update to open source tool that adds ability to operate on multiple devices – it’s like using many brain cells instead of one Nathaniel Mott in New York Wed 13 Apr ‘16 19.
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28 GMT This article is 1 year old The battle for the future of computing is a battle to bring artificial intelligence to the mainstream – and Google is quietly overhauling a machine learning tool used to improve some of its most popular services including Google Translate and Google Photos.
 TensorFlow can be used to help teach computers how to process data in ways similar to how the human brain handles information.