Though tech giants like Google are on the forefront of AI technology, the reality is most other companies — tech or not — do not have AI resources or plans in place, despite understanding the benefits of the technology. Developing a base of AI users familiar with Google’s platform is certainly self-serving for the company, but it is also an important step for large companies to take to spread the technology around the enterprise.
With the AI revenue market expected to explode almost 500% within five years, Google is pushing hard to maintain and preeminent place in the market as competitors like Microsoft, Salesforce, IBM and Intel expand their own offerings. Being the go-to platform for AI and ML would be incredibly beneficial for Google in the cloud market. The company currently trails behind AWS and Microsoft and could use its cloud-based AI tech to cut into Microsoft’s lead.
Google has often dominated headlines in the AI sphere, and news that its AutoML neural net system can create “child” AI architectures with image categorization accuracy rates far higher than human-developed systems reinforced the company’s progress in the field.