The future of Google lies in its artificial intelligence technologies, CEO Sundar Pichai has said multiple times. That means Google's products increasingly rely on machine learning -- programming that allows computers to "learn" on their own. You'll notice AI at work in Google Assistant to understand questions you ask, as well as in Google Photos, which uses AI to identify things like objects, animals and people. But Google also wants developers to use its open source AI software including translation and visual recognition, to build new tools. Google has said making software open source allows outsiders to improve the company's technology.

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Google has published numerous experiments with its cloud AI technologies, but'Quick, Draw' is perhaps the most fun one yet. Using the same technology that interprets written symbols in Google Translate, the game attempts to guess what you are drawing. When you start, you are prompted to draw a specific thing, and the game continues making guesses until it wins or time runs out. At the end of six rounds, it provides you with information about all your drawings, including other guesses and what other users provided. It learns from every drawing, so theoretically, it should become smarter over time.

Earlier this year, we watched a world-renowned Go mastermind get pummeled in a complex game by an artificial intelligence (AI). Now, humans are about to lose in yet another battle with the machines--and this time, it's over typing. There is a speech recognition software that has improved to the point that it is faster and more accurate at producing text than human typists. That's according to researchers from Stanford University and the University of Washington, which ran a study on a new program developed by Chinese internet giant, Baidu. Baidu's Deep Speech 2 is a cloud-based voice recognition software based on a deep learning neural network.