Mastermind: How Google is Planning to Make Your Brain Irrelevant

People who have been monitoring these things would have realized by now that Google is buying like crazy – the company is sealing deals with several startups at once in a preemptory bid to be the biggest winner in whatever happens in the future of technology. This isn’t the interesting part. What is actually interesting is the fact that Google isn’t buying what we’d expect it to buy. Google isn’t buying ad software, better smartphone technology or battery-enhancing plans. No, sir. Rather, Google’s shopping bag is stocked full of artificial intelligence schematics.
 This ruler of the World Wide Web is buying robots, algorithms and smart gadgets for the home space. Google is on a mission to build the world’s most powerful digital brain that works exactly (or close enough) as the human mind! (Some believe Google is looking to build something that works even better than the human brain, even.)
 A few weeks ago, Google announced that it had bought the Artificial Intelligence start up called DeepMind. Google paid hundreds of millions of dollars for the company, and although the company didn’t give an actual figure, Google has been dropping sums like that recently in its takeover bid.
 Google, for example, paid $3.2 billion for a smart thermostat and alarm making company Nest, several robotics companies and another Artificial intelligence set up called DNNresearch.
 Google’s game plan is to integrate smart computer hardware into our everyday lives – from our homes to our machines and even to our bodies. That isn’t all, however: Google is developing the ultimate artificial intelligence to control the smart devices.
 Google isn’t alone in this race for AI domination, though; Facebook, IBM and Microsoft are hurtling down the same path and there are reports that Zuckerberg himself had been trying to get to DeepMind before Google snagged it.