Apple, the most the secretive member of the technology industry, is starting to break down its walls. Russ Salakhutdinov, the company’s director of artificial intelligence research, says Apple will start letting its AI researchers publish papers and engage with the greater AI community, according to a report from Business Insider. Salakhutdinov reportedly made the announcement earlier today at the NIPS conference in Barcelona, Spain.
“You can’t tell people 'come work for us but you can’t tell people what you’re doing' because you basically ruin their career,” he told Business Insider. “That’s a big element.” For instance, Facebook recently gave away the technologies it uses to perform object recognition in photos.