Is it really true that Google is making real progress in its artificial intelligence? It appears as such. Technology has always been the driving force of companies these days, and Google wants to attain the top in terms of technological advancements.
Eric Schmidt, Google's chairman, has stated that "recent and future breakthroughs in artificial intelligence will help us solve big problems in genomics, energy, and climate science." Looking at Google's output, it is proven that the company has attained much in the previous years. The Christian Science Monitor has disclosed that true artificial intelligence is when a computer can solve a wide range of problems through reason, planning, abstraction, and learning. This type of technology hasn't been materialized. The question is, will Google make it a reality?
Although there are specific machines that have performed better than humans at certain tasks, no machine has replaced man's capability in thinking. Mr. Schmidt has stated that Google's artificial intelligence (AI) research has been progressive since the term was first coined in 1955, and that scientists have made a few big breakthroughs in the past several years.
What led to this assurance? Based on a post by The Verge, AI-related research hit an inflection point a few years ago, after a team led by Geoff Hinton, a leader in artificial neural networks, was able to dramatically improve on speech recognition. It also advanced Google's efforts by 25 percent.
Mr. Schmidt further disclosed that companies should be exhausting algorithms to determine what users want to listen to next. This, rather than employing a throng of tastemakers to curate music, as precisely what Apple Music is doing. Mr. Schmidt termed that method as an 'elitist.'
It appears that the chairman of Google is driven by a desire to produce output that will benefit mankind. It seems that it is not a full guarantee that Google will attain true intelligence in the coming year, but the Google chairman contends that innovations in this area could be contributory to solving the major problems that humanity faces each day.
