Rather, like all AI programs, it had to be "trained" by being fed data about what constituted good results.
The small device, attached to the outside of a home or office, will feed data about local temperature and precipitation to a smartphone app via Ayla's cloud service.
The digital agency fed data about 400 sports to an AI, which then generated sports concepts and rules — everything from underwater parkour to exploding Frisbees.
When researchers fed data about ocean currents and typical winds in the region at that time of year into a program that simulates how ocean eddies tend to disperse floating objects, they successfully tracked the pumice as it spread to afflict an area twice the size of New Zealand.
Petasense offers a vibration sensor for each machine, which feeds data about the vibrations wirelessly to the cloud, analyzes it, and presents it to users in a way that even employees who don't have expertise in vibration science can understand.
We then did a research exercise and developed a small integrated IT database and started feeding data back to primary care about their own patients and about their own performance and we very rapidly saw that that had significant benefits to all healthcare professionals in understanding their own service fully," he says.
It works fine, feeding data into Samsung's S Health app, but I'm unconvinced about whether it would be useful for most people.
With 49 Atari games, DeepMind fed data to the computer about what was on the screen during play, including the score.
Troopers feed data about gang members and other criminal suspects into digital devices and Lighthouse allows them to more effectively target suspects.
The sensors feed data about traffic flow to the boxes that control the traffic lights, in order to allow the lights to be adjusted according to whether traffic is heavy or light.
