Google's Featured Snippets on Desktop Now Written By Artificial Intelligence - Search Engine Journal

According to an article published Tuesday on Wired, Google's featured snippets on desktop will now be rendered completely through artificial intelligence. What are being called "sentence compression algorithms" just went live today in desktop search only. These sentence compression algorithms, with the help from deep neural networks, are capable of combing through large amounts of data and text to extract just the information you're looking for. So when you ask a question like "what is the best Christmas movie?", Favorite films aside, what you can notice here is that the featured snippet cut through the entire article to render a quick list of exactly what was being searched for.