{"id":186994,"date":"2016-02-04T08:24:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T08:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=186994"},"modified":"2016-02-04T08:24:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T08:24:55","slug":"google-search-chief-singhal-to-quit-to-be-replaced-by-ai-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=186994","title":{"rendered":"Google search chief Singhal to quit, to be replaced by AI head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Google parent Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) said Amit Singhal, the longtime chief of its Internet search business, will leave the company and be replaced by the head of the technology giant&#8217;s artificial intelligence business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">John Giannandrea, currently a vice president of engineering, will replace Singhal, a 15-year Google veteran, once he leaves on Feb. 26.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Search is stronger than ever, and will only get better in the hands of an outstanding set of senior leaders who are already running the show day-to-day,&#8221; Singhal wrote in a blog post.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The appointment of Giannandrea, who joined Google in 2010, underlines the growing importance Silicon Valley is attaching to artificial intelligence technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Giannandrea led Google&#8217;s machine learning efforts, applying the technology to products such as image recognition for Google Photos search and the smart reply for Google Inbox.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Machine intelligence is crucial to our Search vision of building a truly intelligent assistant that connects our users to information and actions in the real world,&#8221; Google said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The importance of AI has been highlighted in moves by other prominent companies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Elon Musk, Tesla Motors&#8217; (TSLA.O) chief executive, and other prominent tech executives in December announced a $1 billion funding commitment to an AI non-profit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apple Inc (AAPL.O) reportedly bought AI startup Emotient Inc last month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google parent Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) said Amit Singhal, the longtime chief of its Internet search business, will leave the company and be replaced by the head of the technology giant&#8217;s artificial intelligence business. John Giannandrea, currently a vice president of engineering, will replace Singhal, a 15-year Google veteran, once he leaves on Feb. 26. &#8220;Search [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}