{"id":560,"date":"2014-01-29T08:30:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T08:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conferencecall.co.uk\/blog\/?p=560"},"modified":"2016-01-29T13:43:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T13:43:20","slug":"first-robots-now-ai-whats-going-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.co.uk\/blog\/first-robots-now-ai-whats-going-google\/","title":{"rendered":"First it was robots, now it’s AI – what’s going on at Google?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s going on at Google? First they buy up a load of robotics companies for a series of undisclosed fees, and now they’ve gone splurged a reported \u00a3400million on buying an artificial intelligence firm.<\/p>\n

For a company whose motto is “Don’t be evil”, Google appears to doing its utmost to place itself in the Skynet role in our increasingly inevitable dystopian future.<\/p>\n

DeepMind thinks alike<\/h2>\n

Earlier this month we told you how robots are going to be one of 2014’s tech trends<\/a>\u00a0after Google made Boston Dynamics the eighth robotics company its bought in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n

And now its just made UK artificial intelligence start-up Deep Mind its largest European acquisition to date.<\/p>\n

DeepMind specialises in algorithms and machines learning for e-commerce and games and is the brainchild of Shane Legg, Mustafa Suleyman and Demis Hassabis, a neuroscientist and former teenage chess prodigy.<\/p>\n

Major technology firms such as Google, IBM and Yahoo are putting more and more of a focus on the development of artificial intelligence as a new source of business and this is latest acquisition represents a real statement of intent from a company that has already successfully developed self-driving cars and robots.<\/p>\n

In May last year, Google also announced a partnership with NASA when it helped launch the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, a project aimed at using supercomputers and complex algorithms to help improve space exploration.<\/p>\n

And in 2012 the company took on Ray Kurzweil, a futurist, inventor and entrepreneur, to lead an engineering team focussed on machine learning and language processing.<\/p>\n

So with space exploration seemingly on the agenda, Google could be looking at becoming an all-powerful amalgamation of Skynet from the Terminator movies and the Weyland-Yutani corporation from the Alien films.<\/p>\n

Don’t be evil, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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