Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, has predicted a bright future for artificial intelligence in Alphabet's annual founder's letter. Referring to Google’s AI system AlphaGo’s victory over a world-class Go player, Pichai said the implications for the technology were “game changing”, and brought the AI industry closer to being an integral part of ordinary life, and could even tackle issues such as “climate change and cancer diagnosis”. He added that “the next big step will be for the very concept of the 'device' to fade away.” The letter was published on Monday by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who is also chairman of
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, has predicted a bright future for artificial intelligence in Alphabet's annual founder's letter. Referring to Google’s AI system AlphaGo’s victory over a world-class Go player, Pichai said the implications for the technology were “game changing”, and brought the AI industry closer to being an integral part of ordinary life, and could even tackle issues such as “climate change and cancer diagnosis”. He added that “the next big step will be for the very concept of the 'device' to fade away.” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is also a champion of AI technology.