Google launches artificial intelligence division

To help accelerate AI research, Pichai announced that the Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) it uses to train machine-learning models is available in the Google Cloud Platform for anyone to use via the Google Compute Engine today. "We want it to be possible for hundreds of thousands of developers to use machine learning," Pichai said. Our new Cloud TPUs accelerate a wide range of machine learning workloads, including training and inference https://t.co/aWvTVMn54Q The CEO also announced that Google will be using the neural nets it creates to build other neural nets with AutoML. The system takes a set of candidate neural nets (Pichai called them baby neural nets) and iterate them using a reinforcement training approach until the best one is found.