Google Buys A.I. Company for Search, Not Robots by NICK BILTON


By NICK BILTON

While it might seem that Google bought DeepMind, an artificial intelligence company, to make Google’s new robots smarter, the acquisition was more in line with a quest to make search more human, allowing people to ask semantic questions.

Published: January 28, 2014 at 12:00AM

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