Google’s VP of artificial intelligence will replace head of search and merging the two divisions

There are about to be some big changes at Google’s core business, as current head of search, Amit Singhal, is going to retire at the end of February. His replacement? Current VP of artificial intelligence and research, John Giannandrea.

This move has some pretty big implications for the future of Google Search. For the past several years, we’ve seen the search engine rise to prominence by building out an impressive set of tools that made searches extremely fast, extremely comprehensive, and supported by tons of other apps and services like Gmail and Calendar. Recently, though, Google has slightly shifted focus of its search engine by bringing the results to you before you ask, instead of giving you results after you’ve asked Google.

With Giannandrea’s expertise, this momentum will only keep growing. Google Now is an integral part of Google’s mobile strategy, and artificial intelligence is the backbone of that. We’ve already seen that partly implemented in Inbox’s intelligent Smart Reply feature, and that’s not counting the things still in development, like self-driving cars and image recognition.

Alphabet-owned Google isn’t the only one chasing AI for their core business, either. We’ve seen Facebook and Microsoft both pursue new tech that will make it easier to bring content to users more accurately and with less input.

source: Bloomberg

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