There's a traditional form for tech events. Before we get to the actual news, there's usually a bit of corporate throat-clearing in the form of figures and statistics. At Apple events, this usually means some very large numbers about, say, the number of apps downloaded, or iPhones sold. At Google's unveiling of its new Pixel smartphones today, the stats were still there, but instead of boasting about sales, they were all about how good Google is at artificial intelligence.
CEO Sundar Sundar Pichai led the charge here, noting that Google's Knowledge Graph (the easily accessible information that pop up under the search bar for certain queries) now encompasses 70 billion facts. He then moved onto the company's image recognition tech,...
via The Verge
