Apple is enlarging its Seattle engineering center to focus on machine learning and AI

Apple, usually famous for being a very secretive corporation, has made a rather interesting revelation this Thursday. Carlos Guestrin, a University of Washington professor, former Turi CEO, and now director of machine learning at Apple, announced that the company will be expanding its offices in Seattle:

We're trying to find the best people who are excited about AI and machine learning - excited about research and thinking long term but also bringing those ideas into products that impact and delight our customers... The bar is high, but we’re going to be hiring ...