Google planning AI tools for Pi makers this year

Google is intending to expand the dev tools available to makers using the Raspberry Pi microprocessor to power their projects this year -- potentially offering software tools for face- and emotion-recognition, speech-to-text translation, natural language processing, sentiment analysis, predictive analytics and more. The company is currently running a survey for Pi makers asking about the sorts of tools they would like it to develop. You can access the survey via the Raspberry Pi Foundation's website. "We at Google are interested in creating smart tools for Makers, and want to hear from you about what would be most helpful," it says in this survey. Tech areas that can be selected during the survey include home automation, drones, IoT, robotics, 3D printing, wearables and machine learning -- so the company is casting a pretty wide net here. We've reached out to Google and the Pi Foundation with questions and will update this post with any response.