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Google has started putting more effort into the R&D of AI. The company has combined its AI Research Division, Google Brain and DeepMind AI research team into one unified AI team called Google DeepMind. The company has started investing heavily in AI research. Recently, some of their upcoming projects, like MAGI, have surfaced, which will likely be integrated into Google Search and other products to compete against Microsoft Bing. Google DeepMind will be led by Demis Hassabis (Co-Founder and CEO of DeepMind) alongside Google Brain lead Jeff Dean as Chief-Scientist of Google Mind in Google DeepMind HQ in London and Office in Mountain View, California and Edmonton Alberta.

With respected AI researchers and leaders, Google aims to offer various tasks such as Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and Speech Recognition. Google researchers have also committed to investing in essential resources contributing to various fields like Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning. Google is already working on areas of Privacy and Security, Quantum Computing, and Health, where AI can potentially make significant impacts.

Google Brain was founded in 2018, where they have developed Deep learning algorithms like Convolutional Neural Networks and Recurrent Neural networks. While DeepMind was founded in 2010 and acquired by Google in January 2014 for $500 Million, it also developed programs like AlphaGo and AlphaFold, which are known to have defeated a human champion of the game in 2016 with a significant advance in the field of protein folding by which it can beat a human professional Go Players and predict the Structure of Complex Protein.Google also acquired Boston Dynamics, a robotics firm, in December 2013.

Google wants to use Artificial Intelligence and Robotics to improve its products and services

Before Google acquired DeepMind, it struggled to break even financially because of the expense it comes to the cost of training a massive AI Model and Large headcount, which it reportedly had $1.5 Million in Debut in 2019 and in the Year 2020, the company reported a profit of $60 Million. Its revenue now depends on licensing its technology to Alphabet groups like Waymo.

The company is also addressing and identifying the potential risks associated with AI. Google is committed to helping ensure that AI is developed to benefit society and not harm it. Google plans to develop powerful AI tools that can understand humans and process information from multiple sources like text, images, and audio. Google is also ensuring that its AI research is aligned with its strategic goals by creating a new Scientific board to oversee research projects and the direction of the unit.

Artificial intelligence can potentially revolutionize the industry and solve the world’s most pressing problems. With the combination of Google Brain and DeepMind Team, the research and development will increase collaboration and sharing of ideas between the two teams, which results in faster progress in AI research and development and could help Google to hold a stronger position in the global AI race.

Google DeepMind is the next phase of the AI journey and progress

It will offer faster and more powerful AI tools and be used to improve Google’s products and services like Google Maps, Gmail, Search, and other products, which will become more powerful and efficient for users. It will be interesting to see what Google DeepMind can achieve in the coming months. However, Google Research and Google Brain will remain the same internally because they are responsible for a wide range of research areas, not just AI, but keeping them separate will ensure the leader in various fields.

Broader and encompassing the AI capabilities in one product, Google’s consolidation of its AI division is committed to remaining at the forefront of AI. In the past, Google AI Division developed new Machine Learning algorithms and tools. Google Brain was responsible for TensorFlow and Open Source Machine Learning Framework used in most popular tools. Not only this, the Google Translate enhancements with the development of Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision technologies to improve other Google Products simultaneously.

However, Google has released the AI ChatBot Bard to compete against Microsoft’s Bing Chat, which could be better. To improve their AI-ChatBot, the company put more than 160 engineers to work on this to outsize resources into MAGI. Google has been an AI-First company since 2016 and has used AI to improve its core products like Google Search, YouTube, and Gmail, and also help businesses to grow with AI via Google Cloud. The company is also focusing on other things like Health and Climate change.

DeepMind Health is another initiative from Google’s DeepMind AI Division to use AI to improve health. The company has partnered with several healthcare organizations, including National Health Service and the Royal Free Hospital London. They are also working on a Hark app designed to help doctors and nurses with clinical tasks like scheduling appointments and ordering tests. It’s in the early stage, but it has the potential to impact healthcare by improving the diagnosis and management of diseases so it could improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.

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