Google’s search finds a future where devices don’t matter: It’s all AI
This
year’s shareholder letter was the first since the announcement of Alphabet last
August as the Google parent company. It’s also the first time anyone other than
original Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wrote the letter. Search is
what got Google started and search is Google’s future. It’s our future too, but
search is already different today than it was in 1998 when Google launched, and
someday it will be vastly different than it is today. Artificial
intelligence and machine learning will assist and work for us in ways we
can only begin to imagine. The way Nvidia’s GPU-based system
trains driverless cars by watching humans drive, gathering
massive amounts of data, and then
Today
we still think of devices first. Most of use smartphones and some use tablets.
We are certainly aware of our desktop and laptop computers. But imagine if all
those devices disappeared. Not that computers and the devices are really going
away, but we won’t be as aware of them. As we speak, move, gesture, look, and —
at some time not so far off — even think, the world of future computers will
work with us.
As
Google’s Pichai states the shift, “Looking to the future, the next big step
will be for the very concept of the ‘device’ to fade away.” And Google is not
alone, but joined in readying for the transition from device-centrism to AI by
virtually every major player in what is still somewhat quaintly referred to as
the “computer business.” Facebook’s smart assistant “M,”
Microsoft’s renewed focus on AI, and Amazon’s home hub manager, Alexa, are examples cited
in USA Today’s
coverage of the Google CEO’s message.
There
are huge problems to be faced, but Pichai says that because of the transition,
Google will be there to help, “This is another important step toward creating
artificial intelligence that can help us in everything from accomplishing our
daily tasks and travels, to eventually tackling even bigger challenges like
climate change and cancer diagnosis.”
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Pralhad Jadhav
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Khaitan & Co
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