Google on Tuesday unveiled a feature that allows people to use their phones to translate and translate conversation in real time into a non-spoken language. Brian Lin, an engineer with the translation team, said the tool will be available for the Google Translate app in the coming months.
The facility is currently being tested in several languages ​​including Spanish, German and French. The computing will be on Google servers rather than on people's servers, Lynn said.

The search giant announced the tool at a press conference in San Francisco, where the company showcased other artificial intelligence projects, including touch controls for health technology and apparel.

Google has made huge strides in natural language technology. Last year, the company introduced an interpreter mode for Google Assistant, which allows people to speak back and forth in two different languages. The device was previously only available on smart displays, but last month Google brought the feature to the phone.

Broadly, Google has invested heavily in AI and machine learning. Google raised big waves when the company announced that it had achieved quantum domination. Google says it has designed a quantum processor called Sycamore, which will complete a task in 200 seconds, which the company estimates will take 10,000 years on the world's fastest supercomputer.

The search giant also recently talked about how to develop AI in the future. Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said last week that he hopes to leverage AI to prevent the negative consequences of things like DeepFake and facial recognition. “There is no question in my mind that artificial intelligence needs to be regulated,” Pichai wrote in an op-ed for the Financial Times. "It's important not to do that. The question is how to embrace it."

Google has already come up with a set of ethical guidelines for AI on how the company can build and implement its software. The guideline came after staff protested against the Pentagon's agreement to help develop AI for analysis of drone footage. One of those guidelines is to never develop AI for Arsenal and only create "socially beneficial" technologies.

"It's important for us to think about this work," Google AI chief Jeff Dean said at Tuesday's event. "We have a framework to understand where we can take this research and apply these techniques to solve various problems."

At this event, Google also previewed some other AI programs. One project is called I / O Broad, which allows people to control the device by communicating with the wire. For example, you can start, stop and control music on your phone by twisting or pinning the fabric wire of the earbuds. Another project, part of Google Health, is an effort to diagnose anemia in patients.