YouTube is rolling out a redesigned Home interface for the Android and iOS app. The new design is cleaner and simpler, but also takes advantage of deep neural networks to better recommend videos for users to watch.
Update: It looks like the Smart Reply feature is rolling out starting tomorrow.
To all those asking, Smart Reply will start rolling out to Inbox on Android and iOS tomorrow.
— Inbox by Gmail (@inboxbygmail) November 4, 2015
Google’s Inbox app for Gmail is one of the best things to happen to personal email management since email was invented. Using Google Now’s power, it can automatically create calendar events, sort out your junk and priority emails and suggest reminders. Now it’s about to get a whole lot smarter…
When you upload a video to YouTube, the site processes each frame individually and passes them through an algorithm to try and find a few of the best to be your video’s thumbnail. You get to pick between the ones it chooses, or you can upload your own. And while many YouTube creators opt for the latter option, those who aren’t as dedicated usually just go with whatever frame the site chooses.
Now, thanks to deep neural networks, the algorithm that picks the best frames is much more powerful…
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