Uber gets fledgling AI lab off to a flying start with Geometric Intelligence buy out

Uber has hit the ground running with its newly launched artificial intelligence research unit through the purchase of Geometric Intelligence, a machine-learning start-up with 15 employees.
Uber AI Labs is being led by Gary Marcus, professor of psychology and neural science at New York University, with a view to harnessing cognitive science to devise new machine learning techniques which place less reliance on data.
Such software enables computers to adapt on the fly to changed inputs without hav