#Google’s AI Acquisition Blurs Lines Between Futuristic Visions and Business-as-Usual | Singularity Hub
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“Google buys cutting-edge technology when they think there’s good tech and good people,” said long-time Google watcher Ezra Gotthiel, a senior analyst at Technology Business Research. “I think they have that sense of ‘I’m just adding to my portfolio, I just want to get better and better products and people, and I have all this money sitting around that otherwise I just have to invest at low interest rates.’”
DeepMind’s version of artificial intelligence is particularly well suited to search.