Artificial intelligence is now central to everything Google does

Hours before Google CEO Sundar Pichai stepped onto the stage at his company's annual I/O developer conference, a big clue was given about the direction of both his keynote address and the company as a whole. The entirety of the Google Research division was renamed Google AI, a move the company said was a result of it "implementing machine learning techniques in nearly everything we do". Indeed, Google uses artificial intelligence and machine learning in everything from Gmail and battery management in Android, to gathering news headlines, creating robotic voices which sound human, adding color to century-old photos, and teaching autonomous cars to drive in the snow. Google's use of artificial intelligence is spreading wide and far, so here is a rundown of every AI development mentioned at this year's I/O keynote. The star of the show was Google Assistant and its new Duplex feature.