Google AI

Google AI
Company typeDivision
IndustryArtificial intelligence
Founded2017; 7 years ago (2017)
ParentGoogle
Websiteai.google

Google AI is a division of Google dedicated to artificial intelligence.[1] It was announced at Google I/O 2017 by CEO Sundar Pichai.[2]

This division has expanded its reach with research facilities in various parts of the world such as Zurich, Paris, Israel, and Beijing.[3] In 2023, Google AI was part of the reorganization initiative that elevated its head, Jeff Dean, to the position of chief scientist at Google.[4] This reorganization involved the merging of Google Brain and DeepMind, a UK-based company that Google acquired in 2014 that operated separately from the company's core research.[5]

In March 2019 Google announced the creation of an Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC) comprising eight members: Alessandro Acquisti, Bubacarr Bah, De Kai, Dyan Gibbens, Joanna Bryson, Kay Coles James, Luciano Floridi and William Joseph Burns. Following objections from a large number of Google staff to the appointment of Kay Coles James, the Council was abandoned within one month of its establishment.[6]

Projects

  • Google Vids: AI-powered video creation for work.
  • Google Assistant: is a virtual assistant software application since 2023 developed by Google AI.
  • Serving cloud-based TPUs (tensor processing units) in order to develop machine learning software.[7][8] The TPU research cloud provides free access to a cluster of cloud TPUs to researchers engaged in open-source machine learning research.[9]
  • TensorFlow:[10] a machine learning software library.
  • Magenta: a deep learning research team exploring the role of machine learning as a tool in the creative process.[11] The team has released many open source projects allowing artists and musicians to extend their processes using AI.[12] With the use of Magenta, musicians and composers could create high-quality music at a lower cost, making it easier for new artists to enter the industry.[13]
  • Sycamore: a new 54-qubit programmable quantum processor.[14]
  • LaMDA: a family of conversational neural language models.[15]
  • The creation of datasets in under-represented languages, to facilitate the training of AI models in these languages.[16]

Former

  • Bard: a chatbot based on the Gemini model, no longer developed by Google AI since February 8, 2024, as the chatbot (now merged into the Gemini brand) is now developed by Google DeepMind.[17]
  • Duet AI: a Google Workspace integration that can notably generate text or images, no longer developed by Google AI since February 8, 2024, as the Google Workspace integration (now merged into the Gemini brand) is now developed by Google DeepMind.[18]

References

  1. ^ Jhonsa, Eric (May 18, 2017). "Google Has an AI Lead and Is Putting It to Good Use". TheStreet.com. Archived from the original on August 2, 2017. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  2. ^ "Google I/O'17: Google Keynote". YouTube. Google Developers. May 17, 2017. Archived from the original on July 20, 2023. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
  3. ^ Daim, Tugrul U.; Meissner, Dirk (2020). Innovation Management in the Intelligent World: Cases and Tools. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. pp. 57–58. ISBN 978-3-030-58300-2.
  4. ^ Bergen, Mark; Alba, Davey (January 20, 2023). "Google's Treasured AI Unit Gets Swept Up in 12,000 Job Cuts". Bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on February 13, 2023. Retrieved June 22, 2023.
  5. ^ Elias, Jennifer (April 20, 2023). "Read the internal memo Alphabet sent in merging A.I.-focused groups DeepMind and Google Brain". CNBC. Archived from the original on June 22, 2023. Retrieved June 22, 2023.
  6. ^ "Google news release". March 26, 2019. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
  7. ^ Bergen, Mark (May 17, 2017). "Google to Offer New AI 'Supercomputer' Chip Via Cloud". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on May 23, 2022. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  8. ^ Vanian, Jonathan (May 17, 2017). "Google Hopes This New Technology Will Make Artificial Intelligence Smarter". Fortune. Archived from the original on February 6, 2023. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  9. ^ "TPU Research Cloud". sites.research.google. Archived from the original on February 6, 2023. Retrieved June 13, 2022.
  10. ^ "TensorFlow – Google.ai". Google.ai. Archived from the original on July 19, 2023. Retrieved May 21, 2017.
  11. ^ "Magenta". Magenta.tensorflow.org. Archived from the original on February 9, 2023. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
  12. ^ "tenorflow/magenta". github.com. Archived from the original on April 13, 2020. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
  13. ^ "Google Magenta AI – Music Creation". DaayaLab. March 18, 2023. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  14. ^ "Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor". Google AI Blog. Archived from the original on October 24, 2019. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  15. ^ Condon, Stephanie (May 18, 2021). "Google I/O 2021: Google unveils new conversational language model, LaMDA". ZDNet. Archived from the original on May 18, 2021. Retrieved June 12, 2022.
  16. ^ Butryna, Alena; Chu, Shan Hui Cathy; Demirsahin, Isin; Gutkin, Alexander; Ha, Linne; He, Fei; Jansche, Martin; Johny, Cibu C.; Katanova, Anna; Kjartansson, Oddur; Li, Chen Fang; Sarin, Supheakmungkol; Oo, Yin May; Pipatsrisawat, Knot; Rivera, Clara E. (2019). "Google Crowdsourced Speech Corpora and Related Open-Source Resources for Low-Resource Languages and Dialects: An Overview" (PDF). 2019 UNESCO International Conference Language Technologies for All (LT4All): Enabling Linguistic Diversity and Multilingualism Worldwide. 4–6 December, Paris, France: 91–94. arXiv:2010.06778. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 22, 2023. Retrieved January 22, 2023.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  17. ^ Madden, Michael G. (December 15, 2023). "Google's Gemini: is the new AI model really better than ChatGPT?". The Conversation. Retrieved April 14, 2024.
  18. ^ Foster, Megan. "What is Google Duet AI and how to use it in presentation slides". slidefill.com. Retrieved March 18, 2023.

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