Google wants to add A.I. to Raspberry Pi gadgets

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Google wants to bring smarts to cool gadgets and devices made using Raspberry Pi 3 or Intel's Edison.

The company is chasing makers with open-source tools needed to add artificial intelligence to consumer, industrial, and retail devices made using board computers.

The plan may include machine-learning tools, which are central to A.I. Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and Microsoft's Cortana answer questions with the help of A.I., and the technology also helps self-driving cars cruise the streets safely.

"We don't have any specifics to announce right now, but we're excited to keep sharing open-source machine learning tools with the community -- stay tuned for more this year," a Google spokesman said in an email.

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