Google Hires Two Artificial Intelligence Experts To Lead Machine Learning Team

Google believes the key to growing its cloud computing business is artificial intelligence. The search giant said Tuesday that it had hired two high-profile AI researchers to lead a new machine learning unit that's part of its Google Cloud business. Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence that generally refers to training computers to recognize patterns amid tons of data. The two new hires are Fei-Fei Li, the director of Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Lab; and Jia Li, the head of research for Snap, the parent company of popular social messaging app Snapchat. The two women are considered by analysts to be experts in the field of computer vision, a subset of artificial intelligence that involves teaching computers to recognize objects in images.