At this year's Google I/O developer conference keynote, AI took center stage. The company announced a new Google.ai Part of Google's push for AI also included announcing that Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are now available for any developer to use via the Google Compute Engine. TPUs are used by the company to train machine learning models, which give the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. "We want it to be possible for hundreds of thousands of developers to use machine learning," said Pichai.

Business InsiderChatbots aren't robots, but they are supposed to be close to mimicking humans. Chatbots are the future, whether we're ready for them or not. "It's technology that's inevitable," Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella has said. On Tuesday, Facebook is expected to release a Bot Store in a launch that could define the next decade in the same way that the Apple App Store launch paved the path for companies like Uber to build a business off your phone. So what are these chatbots, and why is everyone obsessed?