Google has tapped government consulting firm Perry Bayliss Government Relations for Capitol Hill representation on lobbying issues related to artificial intelligence.
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Perry Bayliss will also help the search giant on amendments to the 1996 Telecom Act, according to lobbying registration documents filed in December.
Google has been placing big bets on its AI program in recent years, hoping to compete with rivals Microsoft, Amazon and Apple in the fields of speech and image recognition, as well as other forays that will allow computers to adapt better language understanding and human-grade intelligence capabilities.
The company’s long-running AI research team, Google Brain, which began as a project inside its Google X lab, now powers its Android operating system’s speech recognition capabilities. The company earlier this year debuted its Google Cloud Speech API, updating its cloud services to offer voice-to-text conversion as well as the ability to recognize more than 80 languages.
Perry Bayliss is headed by former top Grayling lobbyists Steve Perry and Kim Bayliss. Perry until 2003 was CEO of Grayling’s Dutko Worldwide unit. Bayliss was previously a staffer to the late Congressman Mike Synar (D-OK) and government relations VP at United Video Satellite Group before later co-directing Grayling’s Communications Information Technology practice group.
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