A crossword puzzle with a big purpose

Favorite Before the pandemic, Alicia Chang was working on a new project. “I was experimenting with non-traditional ways to help teach Googlers the AI Principles,” she says. Alicia is a technical writer on the Engineering Education team focused on designing learning experiences to help Googlers learn about our AI Principles

Read More
Shared by Google AI Technology August 18, 2021

Using AI to map Africa’s buildings

Favorite Between 2020 and 2050, Africa’s population is expected to double, adding 950 million more people to its urban areas alone. However, according to 2018 figures, a scarcity of affordable housing in many African cities has forced over half of the city dwellers in Sub-Saharan Africa to live in informal

Read More
Shared by Google AI Technology July 28, 2021

Our quantum processor at the Deutsches Museum

Favorite In 2019, our Quantum AI team achieved a beyond-classical computation by outperforming the world’s fastest classical computer. Today, a quantum processor from the Sycamore generation that accomplished this important computing milestone will be donated to the Deutsches Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology in Munich, Germany.  The Deutsches

Read More
Shared by Google AI Technology July 28, 2021

Launching the AI Academy for small newsrooms

Favorite As people searched for the latest information on COVID-19 last year, including school reopenings and travel restrictions, the BBC recognized they needed to find new ways of bringing their journalism to their audiences. They released a new online tool, the BBC Corona Bot, which uses artificial intelligence to draw

Read More
Shared by Google AI Technology July 8, 2021

Kick like a pro with Footy Skills Lab

Favorite When I was growing up in Brisbane, Aussie Rules football wasn’t offered as a school sport – and there weren’t any professional female role models to look up to and learn from. Despite these limitations, we got resourceful. We organized football games in our lunch breaks with friends, using

Read More
Shared by Google AI Technology July 8, 2021

Ask a Techspert: What’s a neural network?

Favorite Back in the day, there was a surefire way to tell humans and computers apart: You’d present a picture of a four-legged friend and ask if it was a cat or dog. A computer couldn’t identify felines from canines, but we humans could answer with doggone confidence.  That all

Read More
Shared by Google AI Technology July 7, 2021

An update on our progress in responsible AI innovation

Favorite Over the past year, responsibly developed AI has transformed health screenings, supportedfact-checking to battle misinformation and save lives, predicted Covid-19 cases to support public health, and protected wildlife after bushfires. Developing AI in a way that gets it right for everyone requires openness, transparency, and a clear focus on

Read More
Shared by Google AI Technology June 30, 2021

Douglas Coupland fuses AI and art to inspire students

Favorite Have you ever noticed that the word art is embedded in the phrase artificial intelligence? Neither did we, but when the opportunity presented itself to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) inspires artistic expression — with the help of internationally renowned Canadian artist Douglas Coupland — the Google Research team

Read More
Shared by Google AI Technology June 29, 2021