Over this last summer, Google has been cooking up a lot of interesting things. We saw Google Glasses get another awesome demo, Google get a patent on a smart watch, and a patent on smart gloves.
They are but one layer of clothing away from smart undergarments.
Google isn’t just working on smart cloths and smart accessories, though.
They are also working on building a virtual brain.
According to technologyreview.com,
Google has spent the last summer teaching a virtual brain how to
recognize things. By watching YouTube videos, the virtual brain has
learned how to identify and remember things like humans and cats. The
virtual brain is more about learning, though, and will be used in a
variety of different ways.
This kind of technology can be wildly
useful in a variety of areas. For instance, Google’s Smart Car benefits
greatly from a self-taught AI as it can learn to recognize traffic
patterns, traffic lights, and street layouts. Google’s pending
technology, like the inventions mentioned above, would also benefit from
this type of software.
Will the virtual brain have any affect on Android?
It
actually already has. The self-taught virtual brain has already helped
improve several parts of Android. Most notably the voice search and
Google Now. By implementing software that’s always learning, these voice
searches can learn your voice and your preferences. This can lead to
better speech recognition, fewer wrong words, and better search results.
There’s
a very bright future for the like’s of Google’s virtual brain. It
recognizes living things, it helps with speech recognition, and it has
the potential to do so much more. Unfortunately, it only operates in
English as the Google engineers haven’t gotten other languages working.
Rest assured, though, they are working on it.
Science is improving
all the time but it’s not often we get to see it in our mobile
technology. Keep in mind that Google’s virtual brain is still in its
early stages and is only slated to get better. You can likely expect it
to start making improvements on other Google services as well, like
Google+. Needless to say, having this kind of technology improving our
electronics promises some amazing stuff in the future. Eventually, this
might even be able to do things like perform surgery, but is that
something you would let it do? Tell us your thoughts.
