“Artificial intelligence continues to be a game changer for Google — and it’s playing to win that game, its chief executive said,” Anita Balakrishnan reports for CNBC. “‘For us, we definitely see a huge opportunity. We see it as an inflection point,’ said Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet’s core Google division. ‘We started feeling it about three to four years ago.'”
“Pichai said the fight for AI between Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Google isn’t quite as vicious as HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones,’ but could be as heated as, say, an NBA championship,” Balakrishnan reports. “‘We do a variety of bench-marking studies, so we generally feel we are ahead,’ Pichai said.”
Balakrishnan reports, “He spoke Wednesday from the annual Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.”
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MacDailyNews Take: We feel we’re ahead of Apple and others in artificial intelligence… because we don’t give two shits about our users’ privacy and they’re easily stupid enough to let us track everything they do and everywhere they go.
TFTFY.
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