Apple Inc. (AAPL): Google Inc (GOOG) Chrome for iOS Just Got a Whole Lot Smarter

However, it’s also safe to say Google won’t be slowing down anytime soon given its hiring of renowned inventor Ray Kurzweil, who’s currently leading a variety of tasks revolving around improving the company’s language processing efforts. Incidentally, just prior to joining Google, Kurzweil himself raised eyebrows during an interview with VentureBeat last year in which he described Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s Siri as “primitive” in its ability to understand natural language.

It was only natural, then, he’d choose to join Google to further his own lifetime goal of perfecting artificial intelligence, a decision he says he made when it became apparent the “resources [he] would need were uniquely at Google,” including its massive Knowledge Graph project which ties together more than 700 million different concepts will billions of relationships between them.

Foolish takeaway

In the end, whether you love Google or not, these improvements make it hard not to be excited for what the future might hold. In fact, this sort of knack for pushing the envelope with the aim of improving our lives over the long run remains one of the very reasons I’m still convinced Google will be able to reward shareholders handsomely going forward.

I suppose it also helps that last quarter, Google managed to increase its already massive revenue stream by 19% year over year to $14 billion, which translated to 15.8% quarterly net income growth to $3.23 billion.

If you ask me, that’s an awful lot of money to help this incredible company change the world for the better.

The article Google Chrome for iOS Just Got a Whole Lot Smarter originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Steve Symington.

Fool contributor Steve Symington owns shares of Apple. The Motley Fool recommends Apple and Google. The Motley Fool owns shares of Apple and Google. 

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