Artificial intelligence is the future of technology and this article shows Google’s pursuits to dominate the search engine market. Google spends $2.84 billion last year on research and development, with artificial intelligence being one of the main focuses.

Google prides themselves on being the best search engine on the internet and they are using artificial intelligence to further expand on their already dominant market share. Google Instant is a new search tool which uses AI to guess what a person is searching for as they type keywords into the search box. Google has estimated that Google Instant saves users two to five seconds per search. The time saved will increase users on Google and therefore increase advertising revenue.

Speech recognition is a major concentration of Google’s artificial intelligence research. Speech recognition is growing fast in the mobile search engines and their research proves that more people chose to search when they can via speech recognition.

I believe research and development of artificial intelligence is an important aspect of not only Google but all companies with the resources to do so. Speech recognition and other aspects of artificial intelligence will lead to many inventions that will better our quality of life.