Reflections on the State of AI: 2018

Among other things, Google introduced Smart Compose for Gmail, made some really impressive updates to Google Maps and, perhaps most importantly, announced its new artificial intelligence-powered virtual assistant, dubbed Google Duplex (see a good summary of all new products and features introduced at Google I/O in 2018 here). In the company’s own words:

“[Google Duplex is] a new technology for conducting natural conversations to carry out “real world” tasks over the phone. We’ve already seen the impressive achievements of AlphaGo and AlphaGo Zero in the game of Go in 2015 & 2016, when it handily won most games when competing against two of the strongest Go champions; in 2018, however, DeepMind’s team managed to achieve something even more interesting — the newest AlphaZero engine demonstrated its clear superiority over all of the strongest existing engines in chess, shogi and Go.

Source: evolutionone.ai