Google Built Its Own Processor To Power Its Artificial Intelligence Bots

Google announced on Wednesday, May 18, at the Google I/O conference event, that it designed its own computer chip for deep neural networks. According to Wired, CEO Sundar Pichai said that Google has designed an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) aimed to drive deep neural nets, an artificial intelligence (AI) technology that is reshaping the Internet. These are networks of software and hardware that analyze vast amount of data in order to learn specific tasks. Google uses neural nets to recognize voice commands in Android phones, identify faces and objects in photos, or translate text from one language to another. Even the Google search engine is transformed by the applications of this new technology.