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Bought by Apple for $360M in 2013. I've been wondering when did they start thinking about this feature (or rather this kind of implementation for it). It seems
by comboy 9y ago
Bought by Apple for $360M in 2013. I've been wondering when did they start thinking about this feature (or rather this kind of implementation for it). It seems that even when you have a lot of money and experience, there's still a pretty long way from an idea to its successful execution.
- alanfalcon 9y agoThat matches pretty closely with the three year design lead period for the Neural Engine that Apple revealed.[1] [1] http://mashable.com/2017/09/14/inside-apple-a11-bionic-and-silicon-team/#ATYLqqRJgOqd http://mashable.com/2017/09/14/inside-apple-a11-bionic-and-s...
- JustSomeNobody 9y agoMoney has little to do with it. You can only add so many engineers to a project. Therefore, some things just take time.
- matude 9y agoAka "9 women won't give birth to a child in 1 month". An example often used to describe how adding more developers doesn't necessarily solve an issue quicker.
- gumby 9y agoCredit for this goes to Fred Brooks, and appears in his famous book "The Mythical Man-Month"
- JustSomeNobody 9y agoYes it does. I could not find my copy to find the quote I wanted to use so I used my own (not quite as effective) words.
- gumby 9y agoDidn't mean to imply you'd done something wrong, just added to your comment.
- waynecochran 9y ago"What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." - Fred Brooks
- kfir 9y agoAccording to Wikipedia the acquisition happened on Nov 24, 2013, basically 2014
- dx034 9y agoThe iPhone X will be released in Nov 2017, basically 2018. So that doesn't change the 4 years
- monk_e_boy 9y agoI wonder what they are eyeing up to buy at the moment and what will turn up in iPhones in 5 years time. Some sort of AI accelerator chip. Or clear phone / heads up display.
- AceJohnny2 9y ago> Some sort of AI accelerator chip like the Neural Engine in the A11? :] https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/13/16300464/apple-iphone-x-ai-neural-engine https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/13/16300464/apple-iphone-x-a...
- dzhiurgis 9y agoAm I wrong or that article gets many things wrong. These chips are not designed to do any learning, but run pre-trained models (much like FPGA's few years back or Google's TPU). The actual heavy lifting (model training) still happens and the """cloud""".
- AceJohnny2 9y agoYou are wrong. For one thing, the learning of your face, and learning over time as your face changes (glasses, hairstyle, beard) happens fully locally.