Google’s CEO, Pichai, is right about AI being the most important thing happening in the world at the moment. The economic consequences of these AI evolutions will be revolutionary. And these examples explain only a couple of the multiple fronts upon which the AI battle is being fought between the world’s largest technology company, and some of their implications.
Of perhaps even more importance is the next generation of AI. Some of the world’s most advanced thinkers are now working on the next generation of Artificial Intelligence, in many ways, starting AI again from scratch. This AI 2.0 is focused on developing Artificial Intelligence which can associate cause and effect – which understands not just words and traffic lights, but what they mean in context. If successful, they will usher in a period during which AI is even more important than it is now.
