Last week, Google announced some astounding statistics about the success rate of their spam filtering technology in Google Mail.  Google says that less than 0.1% of email in the average user’s Gmail inbox is spam, and the rate for legitimate email ending up in the spam folder is even lower at less than %0.05.

Despite these superb results, Google is continuing to innovate and find new ways of detecting and blocking spam.  This year, Google has announced several innovations across their product line that utilize their machine learning technology, affectionately referred to as Google Brain.  Using their artificial neural network software, Google Photos can identify objects in your photographs, like dogs or cats or bridges or birthday cakes.  Google Maps can automatically detect new businesses or speed limit signs in the imagery collected by their entire fleet of Street View cars.  Google Earth Engine can detect new refuge camps or deforestation boundaries by scanning for visual patterns in petabytes of satellite images.