"I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next." -Eric Schmidt
"We're still happy to be in search, believe me. But one idea is that more and more searches are done on your behalf without you needing to type. I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next."
As Google knows "roughly who you are, roughly what you care about, roughly who your friends are..."
Eric Schmidt also said in a interview back when Google was starting up that they wanted to get Google right up to the "creepy line" but not cross it. This interview was also put in a documentary called "The Creepy Line." I'll see if I can find the interview though and link it to this comment.
When the text starts with "Is there any work left to be done?" The short answer is an emphatic “Yes!” I was sort of hoping they would announce that pinterest will now be banned from all non-image search results...
Instead it's an announcement that Google has made a new, even bigger, pile of linear algebra that can sort of answer questions and won't end up like Watson.
I like that they put in a deadpan bit about how they are very ethical when they make and then exploit their huge collections of data found by their spiders. There sure hasn't been any AI controversy at google this quarter, no sir-e!
"I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next." -Eric Schmidt
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