Uber Bets on Artificial Intelligence With Acquisition and New Lab
Uber envisions a future in which a fleet of vehicles can make the most complex maneuvers while carting passengers around without the help of a driver. To achieve that, cars will need to get a whole lot smarter.
Enter Gary Marcus and Zoubin Ghahramani. The two men are being appointed as co-directors of Uber's new in-house research arm on artificial intelligence, which the ride-hailing company unveiled on Monday. The research arm’s aim is to apply A.I. in areas like self-driving vehicles, along with solving other technological challenges through machine learning.
