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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

All research is AI research [theverge.com] now:

Every big tech company is an AI company these days, but none more so than Google. To underline the point ahead of its I/O developers conference, the company has rebranded its Google Research division as Google AI, reflecting the centrality of artificial intelligence to the company's future.

In a blog post [googleblog.com] announcing the news, the company said the rebrand was to "better reflect [its] commitment" to integrating AI into various services. It follows an organizational reshuffle [theverge.com] last month which saw AI product development split up from Google's search efforts, and veteran Googler Jeff Dean taking the helm of the new division. A newly-revamped homepage [ai.google] for Google AI also emphasizes more than just the company's consumer products, highlighting recently-published research in topics like health and astronomy and open-source tools used by the AI community worldwide, like the machine learning framework Tensor Flow. (Important to note also: non-AI research will still be done under in the new "Google AI" division.)

Also at ZDNet [zdnet.com] and Fast Company [fastcompany.com].

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