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Ridgewood N J, ever get your McDonald’s order mixed up at an AI-powered drive-thru? You’re not alone, and it seems this experiment is coming to an end. On Monday, McDonald’s announced the conclusion of its global partnership with IBM, which has been testing AI-driven order takers at select locations since 2021.
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By AFP
PUBLISHED: 19:10 EST, 13 December 2016 | UPDATED: 19:10 EST, 13 December 2016
US technology giant IBM said Tuesday it would hire 25,000 people in the country over the next four years, a day before President-elect Donald Trump meets with tech industry leaders.
About 6,000 of those hirings will occur in 2017, IBM chief executive Ginni Rometty said in an opinion article published in the newspaper USA Today.
IBM, which has undertaken in recent years a restructuring of its activities, will invest $1 billion on employee training and development in the next four years, said the IBM president, chairman and CEO.
IBM develops a computer chip with one million ‘neurons’ that ‘functions like a human brain’
TrueNorth is being hailed as the world’s first neurosynaptic computer chip because it can figure things out on its own
Modern processors have 1.4 bn transistors and consume up to 140 watts but the IBM chip contains 5.4 bn transistors and uses just 70 milliwatts
Richard Doherty, the research director of tech research firm Envisioneering Group, hailed IBM’s chip as a ‘really big deal’
By DANIEL BATES
PUBLISHED: 10:40 EST, 8 August 2014 | UPDATED: 13:43 EST, 8 August 2014
IBM has developed a computer chip which it says will function like a human brain in a giant step forward for artificial intelligence.
TrueNorth is being hailed as the world’s first neurosynaptic computer chip because it can figure things out on its own.
The chip also has one million ‘neurons’ and could cram the same power as a super computer into a circuit the size of a postage stamp.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2720004/IBM-develops-computer-chip-one-million-neurons-functions-like-human-brain.html#ixzz39ygqVmgq