There are a thousand Hamlets for a thousand people. There may not be a thousand versions of Google, but everyone may have a slightly different idea of the company.

It started out as a search engine, moved into Gmail, has an advertising business, and is the owner of Android, the world’s most popular mobile operating system (with more than 2 billion active devices). In recent years Google has started selling phones, TV sticks, tablets, and home stereos…

It’s getting harder and harder to define Google.

At Google I/O’s annual developer conference today, CEO Sundar Pichai pointed out that Google has always done what it does best: Using cutting-edge computing to solve the world’s most complex problems, “problems that affect People’s Daily lives.”

By embracing mobile computing early, Google has reaped dividends in the pc-mobile transition. For most smartphone users, Google has become the most important part of their daily digital lives. Only numbers can capture just how much people love Google: Google Maps is used to navigate more than a billion miles a day, and users spend more than a billion hours a day on YouTube.

And in countries where Google’s services are temporarily unavailable, Google has found another way to reach out — thanks to China, the number of active Android devices worldwide recently just passed 2 billion.

However, a new paradigm shift is coming, and this time the key word will be artificial intelligence. Pichai found that the advent of artificial intelligence was once again forcing Google to change the way it conceived its products. Slowly, you will find ai in all of Google’s products.

For example, Google launched Photos last year, which has become the most popular cloud-based photo collection service with more than 500 million users, thanks to free upload space, face detection and automatic photo sorting provided by image recognition technology.

For example, Google search, its function has long been not only search text, to meet more expectations of users, you can use voice input, can search images, but also directly and accurately answer questions, rather than give a bunch of don’t know whether reliable web pages;

Or Gmail, a simple email system. How can it be made more fun and useful? Google found that it would be much better to automatically flag and deal with spam, rather than having users manually flag them, or to automatically recognize the content of emails and provide several contextual default responses instead of typing.