Google Brain maker teams up with Foxconn for AI push

Andrew Ng has launched a new venture to bring AI on to factory floor

Andrew Ng, co-founder of some of Alphabet -owned Google’s most prominent artificial intelligence projects, on Thursday launches a new venture with iPhone assembler Foxconn to bring AI and so-called machine learning onto the factory floor.

Consumers now experience AI mostly through image recognition to help categorize digital photographs and speech recognition that helps power digital voice assistants such as Apple Inc’s Siri or Amazon.com Inc’s Alexa. But at a press briefing in San Francisco two days before Ng’s Landing.ai venture is introduced, he demonstrated an example of using AI for visual inspection in a factory’s quality control efforts.

In many factories, workers