Google CEO: AI is a bigger deal than fire or electricity

I think there&#x27;s an important distinction here in word choice. Sundar said more <i>profound</i>, not <i>a bigger deal</i>. You could imagine that it&#x27;s more profound in the sort of &quot;what if we make machines that can think &#x2F; feel &#x2F; have souls&quot; sort of way, which certainly can&#x27;t happen with fire or electricity.<p>That doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s more important than electricity. (As a bozo test - how does your AI work without electricity?)<p>Disclaimer: work at google, in a role completely unrelated to AI.

&quot;Company: Thing we have sunk massive amounts of cost into is a bigger deal than sliced bread.&quot;

The application logic is currently smart enough. So long as the vision of AI remain around single, closed, data-oriented, monolithic applications AI will continue to be as impressive as it is now. It will get faster as the hardware gets faster, but it won&#x27;t be what tech evangelists are hyping it up to be.<p>If the giant tech companies really want AI to be something <i>more</i> they need to reevaluate what AI is from a very foundational and simplistic approach. Right now, the current approach, AI is just a big smart application, but it can never be smarter than a big single software application.

Yes it is. Allow be to boast, but over the last 4 years I have implemented automated credit decision systems replacing human credit analysts and event recommendation systems categorizing 3,000,000 events only on the description. The power these new technologies have is on the same scale as fire and electricity.

No it&#x27;s not. It&#x27;s &quot;AI&quot; on your terms sundar. I doubt I&#x27;ll ever be able to tell Google Assistant to change her name to whatever I want.

Is AI still intelligence if it does completely stupid shit that people currently do like racial profiling? Because to me, that&#x27;s not intelligence. That is fucking scary as shit though that this non-intelligent software can now amplify the worst of human impulses many times over without any oversight or control. If that&#x27;s what people like like Pichai are talking about--shit software given too much power by humans--then yeah, it&#x27;s beyond terrifying. But if we&#x27;re still talking about intelligence, we&#x27;re not talking about systems like this.

fire, electricity, and life&#x2F;intelligence are result of the same - entropy equalization along the gradient between low entropy region in parameter space and the rest of the space, ie. 2nd law.<p>AI looks like the next step in that ladder as it isn&#x27;t limited by physical limitations of a protein based life body, ie. it has all the chances to transcend the current practical limit of 1.5kg of wet live matter blob with 100B elements and 100T connections.