First it was robots, now it's AI - what's going on at Google? - ConferenceCall.co.uk blog

First they buy up a load of robotics companies for a series of undisclosed fees, and now they've gone splurged a reported 400million on buying an artificial intelligence firm. 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. Earlier this month we told you how robots are going to be one of 2014's tech trends after Google made Boston Dynamics the eighth robotics company its bought in the last 12 months. And now its just made UK artificial intelligence start-up Deep Mind its largest European acquisition to date. 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.