At its annual developers conference at an outdoor concert-venue near its main campus in Mountain View, California, Google unveiled its vision for computing centered around artificial intelligence (AI). For Google, those interactions include using artificial intelligence to let people engage computers conversationally, have software anticipate needs and let smartphone cameras “recognize” what they see. Google also unveiled a second-generation computer chip it designed specifically to improve cloudIntroduced last year, Google Assistant, is now on more than 100 million devices, said Scott Huffman, the team’s vice president of engineering. Google used the conference to announce a software kit that will let developers build Assistant capabilities into robots, applications and other computerized creations. Google announced that more than 2 billion devices powered by Android software are used monthly in a freshly passed milestone.

Source: Taipei Times May 18, 2017 17:15 UTC