{"id":108164,"date":"2020-06-04T02:07:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T09:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/apple-buys-canadian-start-up-to-help-improve-machine-learning-and-ai"},"modified":"2020-06-04T02:07:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T09:07:11","slug":"apple-buys-canadian-start-up-to-help-improve-machine-learning-and-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/apple-buys-canadian-start-up-to-help-improve-machine-learning-and-ai","title":{"rendered":"Apple Buys Canadian Start-Up To Help Improve Machine-Learning And AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apple-buys-canadian-start-up-to-help-improve-machine-learning-and-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Technology giant Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has bought a small Canadian start-up company to help it improve machine-learning and artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n<p>Apple has purchased Waterloo, Ontario-based company Inductiv Inc., adding to more than a dozen AI-related acquisitions in recent years. Inductiv develops technology that uses AI to automate the task of identifying and correcting errors in data. Having clean data is important for machine learning, a popular and powerful type of artificial intelligence that helps software improve with less human intervention.<\/p>\n<p>The engineering team from Inductiv joined Apple in recent weeks to work on Siri, machine learning and data science. The Inductiv acquisition is part of Apple\u2019s broader machine-learning strategy. Apple has been upgrading the underlying technology that goes into the Siri digital assistant and other AI-powered products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology giant Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has bought a small Canadian start-up company to help it improve machine-learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Apple has purchased Waterloo, Ontario-based company Inductiv Inc., adding to more than a dozen AI-related acquisitions in recent years. Inductiv develops technology that uses AI to automate the task of identifying and correcting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}