No rainbow-puking unicorns: How Google wants to dominate the future of computing


  • TECH
  • Monday, 22 May 2017

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in San Jose, California, U.S., May 17, 2017. REUTERS/Stephen Lam

LOS ANGELES: First, computers were better at playing chess and Go than humans. Now, they're beating us at something as fundamental as looking at things. 

Case in point: Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed at the company's Google I/O developer conference in Mountain View this week that his company's computers have surpassed humans at recognising objects in images. 

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