AI
Jan 19, 2023
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The past few years have seen huge breakthroughs in the use and application of artificial intelligence — and AI holds major promise for people around the world. AI already powers Google’s core products that help billions of people every day. Whether it’s asking for movie times, finding the nearest doctor or finding better routes home — our work in AI is centered on making everyday experiences more helpful.
We’ve been developing AI for more than two decades. Some of our most popular products at Google — like Lens and Translate — were built entirely using artificial intelligence technologies like optical character recognition and machine learning. And countless other Google products now have AI built into them, and are far better and more helpful to billions of people as a result.
Many of these improvements are possible thanks to our invention of Transformer in 2017. Considered the grandparent of modern language models, we’re now able to build AI language models (like BERT, PALM, MUM, and LaMDA) on top of this architecture that can do everything from solve complex math word problems, answer questions in new languages, and express their reasoning through words using chain of thought prompting.
Here are nine ways we use AI, today, to make our products even more helpful.
We’re excited about our work in AI, and we’re committed to developing it responsibly in a way that ensures our products become even more useful to people. But we’re equally excited about the promise AI holds for solving some of the most persistent challenges facing our world: whether it’s tackling the climate crisis, leveraging DeepMind AI’s work to reduce energy consumption and save resources, or expanding access to medical diagnosis.
That’s just a taste – we have so much more in store and we’re excited for what comes next.
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