Larry Page on Google and DeepMind

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At TED2014, Charlie Rose interviewed Google CEO Larry Page about his far-off vision for the company. It includes aerial bikeways and internet balloons … and then it gets even more interesting.

Onstage at TED2014, Charlie Rose interviewed Google CEO Larry Page about his far-off vision for the company. It includes aerial bikeways and internet balloons … and then it gets even more interesting.

"We're really just at the beginning, and that's what I'm excited about."

As Page talks through the company’s recent acquisition of Deep Mind, an AI that is learning some surprising things.

Page explains how DeepMind's technology has allowed artificial intelligence to play 1980's video games with super-human abilities only sensing what we would see with our eyes. Moreover, the same system can learn multiple games.

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"Imagine if this kind of intelligence were thrown at your schedule or information needs," posits Page. "We're really just at the beginning, and that's what I'm excited about."

Page praises DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and his background in artificial intelligence and computational neuroscience for the developments and potential.

For Page, invention is not enough, commercialization - positive commercialization is important. As an example, he cites Google's Loom, that has the goal of providing internet access through a network of balloons.

When Rose asked Page about what quality of mind has served him best for thinking about the future and changing the present, Page responds that many companies that fail simply miss the future.  "What is that future really going to be, and how do we create it?"


SOURCE  TED

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