The world’s tech giants are all coming together to boost artificial intelligence technology. Yahoo just set itself apart from Google and Microsoft. The company is releasing information on 20 million anonymous users for university use.
Understanding The Internet from Yahoo User’s Perspective
The data compiles every click ad scroll of 20 million users. This makes up a giant chunk of data. The goal? The company is probably looking to join hands with colleges and universities to study how users interact with online services. This can only bring about positive results.
The users themselves were taken out of a pool of Yahoo Sports, Finance, News, Real Estate and other pages. The compilation of data will only be available to universities, no exceptions. It’s expected to provide researchers with a better and more realistic outlook on internet behavior.
Yahoo is Behind Google and Microsoft
In the world of technology, Yahoo has been quiet. After acquiring Tumblr and Flickr, the company has stayed mostly in the sidelines. This is basically a move for Yahoo to attract some brain power and get ahead in the game of artificial intelligence. As things stand, the companies making the most headway are Facebook, Google, Toyota and Microsoft. The company seriously needs to do something or get trampled by the other company’s widening paths.
Recruiting academic talent is a basic part of research and development. Facebook and Google have notorious staff, and those are the minds that bring about success. Research and development of artificial intelligence require a very good understanding of deep learning and machine training. As such, Yahoo wants to get their hands on as many brains as possible. Their approach is very unique to say the least.
Data Sciences Are Attractive
This kind of data can certainly attract a few people and form a data sciences division for the company. There’s never a shortage of brains when it comes to technology companies. The amount of data that the company is releasing weighs exactly 13.5 TB. This can from a great base for machine learning to attract users.
This compression of data is pretty much bigger than anything else available to academic computer scientists. However, it’s possible that the company might join hands with Amazon or Alphabet for a cloud computing center. This much data can’t be stored in a university system alone. Carnegie Mellon University signed a five-year $10 million partnership with Yahoo in 2015. The university will be using this data to make personalized apps.
Tension Between Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft
There’s a lot of tension among tech companies to get the best artificial intelligence teams available. From here to 2020, competition will be very heated. Yahoo is making positive headway in this respect, and it’s in its best interest to keep making headway.
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