{"274331":{"#nid":"274331","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"For Google, a Leg Up in the Artificial Intelligence Arms Race","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Powerful algorithms and computers are able to solve problems that were intractable just a few years ago,\u0022 said David Bader, executive director of high performance computing at Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGoogle has been working on artificial intelligence almost since its founding 16 years ago. Its efforts focused on improving search results, translation, and filtering spam. Google Now, a digital personal assistant within Google\u0027s mobile search app, is among the most ambitious of its efforts to date. It guesses what information users want based on their past search history and location, and then gives it to them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Google Now can do simple things like give you directions to work or figure out that you have a flight,\u0022 Bader said. \u0022But to really predict what you\u0027re really going to do or to understand your\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2014-02-06 00:04:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:56","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"black fly larvae","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/tech.fortune.cnn.com\/2014\/02\/05\/for-google-a-leg-up-in-the-artificial-intelligence-arms-race\/?iid=SF_F_River","dateline":{"date":"2014-02-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-02-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1304","name":"High Performance Computing (HPC)"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"84371","name":"David Bader; XScala; Supercomputing; Graph500; Sandia National Laboratories; high-performance computing"},{"id":"3165","name":"google"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}