Alphabet Google: AI Acceleration

November 24, 2016

The Alphabet Google thing is upping the amps in its quest to be the big dog in artificial intelligence. After years of IBM public relations Watsonage, the GOOG wants the world to know that it is the leader in smart software. There is some news zipping around the fact checked, ever accurate online information sources; for example:

Google’s online translation system is now better than ever. The news comes from a trusted source packaged in the write up “Google Translate Just Got a Lot Smarter.” The write up uses the word “leap” to convey the notion of a better system.
Google, the proud owner of DeepMind, said it would add more smart people to its cadre of really smart people in England. You can get the news in the factually rigorous “Google Plans to Expand Its London Office and Hire Up to 3,000 More Employees by 2020.”
Google has crafted a new smart software unit with the luminaries Jia Li (female wizardette from Snapchat) and Fei Fei Li (Stanford wizard) making the Googlers innovate. You can get the scoop in the fact filled “Google Cloud Is Launching GPU-backed VM Instances Early in 2017.”

How does one know that Google’s smart software is really smart and not a response to the IBM Watson assertions?

Easy question. Google will make online demos available at AI Experiments, a new Web site.

You can “explore machine learning by playing with pictures, language, music, code, and more.” You can “visualize high dimensional space” which is not an easy trick for some folks here in rural Kentucky. Also, you can see “what neural networks see.” Well, sort of. If you are a coder, you can submit your smart software using Google goodies as well.

My recollection is that Google has been doing smart software for almost two decades. What’s new is the PR-ification of Google’s effort to reduce costs, create new services, and remain the top technology dog.

And what about search? Hey, that’s not part of the agenda unless you count Google’s intent to become the travel question answering machine. Precision, recall, relevance — Google has that baked in along side its ads.

Stephen E Arnold, November 24, 2016

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under AI, Google, Marketing, News

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.