Google CEO Predicts AI-Fueled Future (usatoday.com)

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the next big evolution for technology is AI. "Looking to the future, the next big step will be for the very concept of the 'device' to fade away," Pichai wrote in Google's annual founders' letter. USA Today writes: His vision: Over time, computers, whatever shape they take, a mobile device in your hand or a mini computer on your wrist, "will be an intelligent assistant helping you through your day." This marks the first time anyone other than founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have penned the annual letter outlining Google's mission. "For us, technology is not about the devices or the products we build. Those aren't the end-goals," Pichai wrote in the letter posted Thursday. "Technology is a democratizing force, empowering people through information. Google is an information company. It was when it was founded, and it is today."

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"For us, technology is not about the devices or...

[friesofdoom]

... the products we build. Those aren't the end-goals" No shit! Have you tried using an android phone? It's pretty clear they don't care about the devices...

Fantastic...

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

When I picture a future infested with intelligent objects dedicated to knowing as much about me as possible the word that definitely comes to mind isn't exactly 'empowering' or 'democratizing'.

A World Without People?

[BrendaEM]

What will a future be like when the few remaining people don't need anyone for anything?

I'm starting to not give a crap about tech.

[rdelsambuco]

If everybody stopped informationing for an hour a day, and went for a walk, or rode a bike, or had sex with another person, I think they would be happier.

So that people cannot get through the day alone?

[gweihir]

Because this sounds very much like a promise to make everybody even more infantile, incompetent and dependent on some digital moron to tell them what to do. "Idiocracy" comes to mind.