Google puts focus on AI and VR at I/O 2016 - Mobile World Live

Google used its I/O 2016 event to talk up its work in areas including machine learning and virtual reality, with head Sundar Pichai stating that "we are pushing ourselves really hard so that Google is evolving, and staying ahead of our users". A significant amount of time was dedicated to the growing importance of voice-driven services, with the executive stating that 20 per cent of queries from US mobile users are already made in this way. "Given how differently users are engaging with us, we want to push ourselves and deliver rich information in the context of mobile," he said. Driving this is Google Assistant, which it described as "conversational", and more like a context-aware two way dialogue. This, it said, is enabled by its natural language processing technology – "our ability to do conversational understanding is far ahead of what other assistants can do".