Google Wants to Apply AI & Machine Learning to All Its Products – Futurism

A Platform Shift

Its the time of year again for Google I/O, the companys annual developer conference. On Wednesday, the showcase started with a keynote from CEO Sundar Pichai who reiterated the companys latest approach for all that it does: artificial intelligence (AI). Google does a lot, from its original search engine function, to email, video services, and mobile software and the company wants to seeAI will be at the helm of it all.

Pichar highlighted this AI-first focus, something he mentioned at the I/O last year. Now, Google has given the rest of the world aglimpse of how machine learning will work behind every platform it has.

Of course, theres no amount of AI and machine learning-based tech that can work without a specialized processor to run them. Thats whyGoogle launched the second generation of its tensor processing unit chips, called Cloud TPU. These new TPUs will beaccessible to anyone to use for running and training artificial neural networksthrough Googles cloud computing platform.

Much of Googles research on AI is conducted by DeepMind, a company under its Alphabet group. But with all the advances being made in the discipline, Google still needs a platform to put resources together, including research, tools, and applied AI. Google.ai is precisely that, a way to democratize its AI research.

Image recognition is one of the first beneficiaries of machine learning development. There isnt a shortage of algorithms designed to perform visual recognition tasks. Now, Google wants to take this to awhole new level by bringing its search engine expertise to your camera.

Itll be available initially as part of Google Photos to scrape through your old photos for a bunch of data and Google Assistant, which will serve as your primary way to interact with Lens.

As the future of smart home devices begin to take shape thanks in large part to devices like the Amazon Echo Google doesnt want to get left behind. So, it launched its second iteration of Google Home no longer just a little smart speaker that can play music. Now, it also offers proactive assistance, hands-free calling, and visual responses, among other features.

Further specializing its search engine prowess, Google is bringing its power people in the U.S. lookingfor jobs that will suit them, and helping employersfind the employeesthey need. 46% of U.S. employers say they face talent shortages and have issues filling open job positions, Pichai explained. While job seekers may be looking for openings right next door theres a big disconnect here. [] We want to better connect employers and job seekers through a new initiative, Google for Jobs.

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