Google is bringing together its two AI research teams, DeepMind, an artificial intelligence AI lab, and an internal Google Research team named Brain into a singular unit named Google DeepMind.
The rate of AI development is seemingly speeding up each day, and Google is one of the biggest players in the game. The teams have an impressive history of achievements in AI collectively, including AlphaGo, a computer program that plays the Chinese board game Go and was the first program to beat a professional human player. This particular achievement was accomplished by DeepMind, which was acquired by Google in 2014, and until now was run as an independent unit based in the UK.
