Google AI
{{short description|Google division dedicated to AI}}
{{About|the division|applications of Google AI|Gemini (chatbot)|and|AI Overviews}}
{{use mdy dates|date=February 2022}}
{{Out of date|date=December 2024|reason=DeepMind merger}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Google AI
| logo = Google AI logo.svg
| logo_upright = 1.2
| type = Division
| industry = Artificial intelligence
| founded = {{start date and age|2017}}
| owner =
| parent = Google
| website = {{official URL}}
}}
Google AI is a division of Google dedicated to artificial intelligence.{{Cite web|url=http://realmoney.thestreet.com/articles/05/18/2017/google-has-ai-lead-and-putting-it-good-use|title=Google Has an AI Lead and Is Putting It to Good Use|last=Jhonsa|first=Eric|date=18 May 2017|website=TheStreet.com|access-date=19 May 2017|archive-date=August 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802163722/http://realmoney.thestreet.com/articles/05/18/2017/google-has-ai-lead-and-putting-it-good-use|url-status=live}} It was announced at Google I/O 2017 by CEO Sundar Pichai.{{cite web|title=Google I/O'17: Google Keynote|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2VF8tmLFHw&t=52m47s|website=YouTube| date=May 17, 2017 |publisher=Google Developers|access-date=18 May 2017|archive-date=July 20, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230720003429/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2VF8tmLFHw&t=52m47s|url-status=live}}
This division has expanded its reach with research facilities in various parts of the world such as Zurich, Paris, Israel, and Beijing.{{Cite book |last1=Daim |first1=Tugrul U. |title=Innovation Management in the Intelligent World: Cases and Tools |last2=Meissner |first2=Dirk |publisher=Springer Nature |year=2020 |isbn=978-3-030-58300-2 |location=Cham, Switzerland |pages=57–58 |language=en}} In 2023, Google AI was part of the reorganization initiative that elevated its head, Jeff Dean, to the position of chief scientist at Google.{{Cite news |last1=Bergen |first1=Mark |last2=Alba |first2=Davey |date=2023-01-20 |title=Google's Treasured AI Unit Gets Swept Up in 12,000 Job Cuts |language=en |work=Bloomberg.com |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-20/google-s-treasured-ai-unit-gets-swept-up-in-12-000-job-cuts |access-date=2023-06-22 |archive-date=February 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213231456/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-20/google-s-treasured-ai-unit-gets-swept-up-in-12-000-job-cuts |url-status=live }} 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.{{Cite web |last=Elias |first=Jennifer |date=2023-04-20 |title=Read the internal memo Alphabet sent in merging A.I.-focused groups DeepMind and Google Brain |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/20/alphabet-merges-ai-focused-groups-deepmind-and-google-research.html |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=CNBC |language=en |archive-date=June 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230622234810/https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/20/alphabet-merges-ai-focused-groups-deepmind-and-google-research.html |url-status=live }}
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.{{cite web|url=https://blog.google/technology/ai/external-advisory-council-help-advance-responsible-development-ai/|title=Google news release|date=March 26, 2019 |accessdate=9 July 2024}}
In February 2025, Alphabet removed guidelines in their public AI ethics policy that formerly ruled out applying their AI technology to applications that were "likely to cause harm."{{Cite web |last=Maruf |first=Ramishah |date=2025-02-04 |title=Google erases promise not to use AI technology for weapons or surveillance {{!}} CNN Business |url=https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/business/google-ai-weapons-surveillance/index.html |access-date=2025-02-05 |website=CNN |language=en}} Google published a [https://blog.google/technology/ai/responsible-ai-2024-report-ongoing-work/ blog post] defending the change.{{Cite web |date=2025-02-05 |title=Google ending AI arms ban incredibly concerning, campaigners say |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy081nqx2zjo |access-date=2025-02-05 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-17/google-to-sell-new-ai-supercomputer-chip-via-cloud-business|title=Google to Offer New AI 'Supercomputer' Chip Via Cloud|last=Bergen|first=Mark|date=17 May 2017|website=Bloomberg News|access-date=19 May 2017|archive-date=May 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523082224/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-17/google-to-sell-new-ai-supercomputer-chip-via-cloud-business|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=http://fortune.com/2017/05/17/google-artificial-intelligence-tpu-chip/|title=Google Hopes This New Technology Will Make Artificial Intelligence Smarter|last=Vanian|first=Jonathan|date=17 May 2017|website=Fortune|access-date=19 May 2017|archive-date=February 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206234757/https://fortune.com/2017/05/17/google-artificial-intelligence-tpu-chip/|url-status=live}} The TPU research cloud provides free access to a cluster of cloud TPUs to researchers engaged in open-source machine learning research.{{cite web |title=TPU Research Cloud |url=https://sites.research.google/trc |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206231247/https://sites.research.google/trc/ |archive-date=February 6, 2023 |access-date=13 June 2022 |website=sites.research.google}}
- TensorFlow:{{cite web|title=TensorFlow – Google.ai|url=https://google.ai/tools/tensorflow/#?modal_active=none|website=Google.ai|access-date=21 May 2017|archive-date=July 19, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719233405/https://www.tensorflow.org/#?modal_active=none|url-status=live}} a machine learning software library.
- Magenta: a deep learning research team exploring the role of machine learning as a tool in the creative process.{{cite web|title=Magenta|url=https://magenta.tensorflow.org/|website=Magenta.tensorflow.org|access-date=19 Feb 2019|archive-date=February 9, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209090809/https://magenta.tensorflow.org/|url-status=live}} The team has released many open source projects allowing artists and musicians to extend their processes using AI.{{cite web|title=tenorflow/magenta|url=https://github.com/tensorflow/magenta|website=github.com|access-date=19 Feb 2019|archive-date=April 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413122722/https://github.com/tensorflow/magenta|url-status=live}} 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.{{Cite web |date=March 18, 2023 |title=Google Magenta AI – Music Creation |url=https://daayalab.com/google-magenta-ai-music-creation/ |url-status=live |website=DaayaLab |access-date=March 21, 2023 |archive-date=March 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321110722/https://daayalab.com/google-magenta-ai-music-creation/ }}
- Sycamore: a new 54-qubit programmable quantum processor.{{Cite web|url=http://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/quantum-supremacy-using-programmable.html|title=Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor|website=Google AI Blog|language=en|access-date=2020-04-01|archive-date=October 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024184439/https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/quantum-supremacy-using-programmable.html|url-status=live}}
- LaMDA: a family of conversational neural language models.{{Cite web |last=Condon |first=Stephanie |date=May 18, 2021 |title=Google I/O 2021: Google unveils new conversational language model, LaMDA |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-io-google-unveils-new-conversational-language-model-lamda/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518194954/https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-io-google-unveils-new-conversational-language-model-lamda/ |archive-date=May 18, 2021 |access-date=June 12, 2022 |website=ZDNet}}
- The creation of datasets in under-represented languages, to facilitate the training of AI models in these languages.{{Cite journal |last1=Butryna |first1=Alena |last2=Chu |first2=Shan Hui Cathy |last3=Demirsahin |first3=Isin |last4=Gutkin |first4=Alexander |last5=Ha |first5=Linne |last6=He |first6=Fei |last7=Jansche |first7=Martin |last8=Johny |first8=Cibu C. |last9=Katanova |first9=Anna |last10=Kjartansson |first10=Oddur |last11=Li |first11=Chen Fang |last12=Sarin |first12=Supheakmungkol |last13=Oo |first13=Yin May |last14=Pipatsrisawat |first14=Knot |last15=Rivera |first15=Clara E. |date=2019 |title=Google Crowdsourced Speech Corpora and Related Open-Source Resources for Low-Resource Languages and Dialects: An Overview |url=https://lt4all.elra.info/proceedings/lt4all2019/pdf/2019.lt4all-1.23.pdf |journal=2019 UNESCO International Conference Language Technologies for All (LT4All): Enabling Linguistic Diversity and Multilingualism Worldwide |location=4–6 December, Paris, France |pages=91–94 |arxiv=2010.06778 |access-date=January 22, 2023 |archive-date=January 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230122140631/https://lt4all.elra.info/proceedings/lt4all2019/pdf/2019.lt4all-1.23.pdf |url-status=live }}
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- 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.{{Cite web |last=Madden |first=Michael G. |date=2023-12-15 |title=Google's Gemini: is the new AI model really better than ChatGPT? |url=http://theconversation.com/googles-gemini-is-the-new-ai-model-really-better-than-chatgpt-219526 |access-date=2024-04-14 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}
- 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.{{cite web |last1=Foster |first1=Megan |title=What is Google Duet AI and how to use it in presentation slides|url=https://slidefill.com/google-duet-ai-use-in-slides/ |website=slidefill.com |access-date=18 March 2023 |language=en}}
- Crowdsource: a crowdsourcing platform developed by Google intended to improve a host of Google services through the data donated from users for training of different algorithms.{{Cite journal |last1=Sarin |first1=Supheakmungkol |last2=Pipatsrisawat |first2=Knot |last3=Pham |first3=Khiem |last4=Batra |first4=Anurag |last5=Valente |first5=Luis |date=2019 |title=Crowdsource by Google: A Platform for Collecting Inclusive and Representative Machine Learning Data |url=https://www.humancomputation.com/2019/assets/papers/143.pdf |journal=AAAI Hcomp 2019}}
References
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Further reading
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- [https://fossbytes.com/google-puts-all-of-their-ai-stuff-on-google-ai/ Google Puts All Of Their A.I. Stuff On Google.ai, Announces Cloud TPU]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124100705/https://fossbytes.com/google-puts-all-of-their-ai-stuff-on-google-ai/ |date=November 24, 2020 }}.
- [https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/05/17/google-collects-ai-initiatives-under-google-ai/ Google collects its AI initiatives under Google.ai]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181008022701/http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/05/17/google-collects-ai-initiatives-under-google-ai/ |date=October 8, 2018 }}.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20170827035527/http://wsoe.org/google-collects-ai-based-services-across-the-company-into-google-ai/ Google collects AI-based services across the company into Google.ai] – "Google.ai is a collection of products and teams across Alphabet with a focus on AI."
- [https://char.gd/blog/2017/googles-deep-focus-on-ai-is-paying-off Google's deep focus on AI is paying off]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020143546/https://char.gd/blog/2017/googles-deep-focus-on-ai-is-paying-off |date=October 20, 2020 }}.
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