Google bets machine learning can create an edge with Android, apps, cloud

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Larry Dignan.

Google is betting that it can infuse machine learning throughout its various cloud and mobile products to create an advantage over Apple and other rivals. Whether it’s the launch of Google’s new photo service, Google Now or the new Android, machine learning appears to be an emerging common thread.

Google rolled out Google Photos and the differentiator is going to be search and machine learning to categorize them. The pitch with Google Photo is that the search giant will create a home for photos and videos and use machine learning to "make memories not manage them," said Anil Sabharwal, director of Google Photos…

All of this machine learning computing power will rely on Google’s computing and cloud infrastructure. Google isn’t the only one in the machine learning game—IBM, Microsoft and a bevy of others play in the space—but the search giant has the reach to make the technology mainstream even if it resides in the background…

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