Ted 2014: Larry Page on Google's robotic future - BBC News

Larry Page wants patients to hand over their data to researchers in order to save "100,000 lives". It's just one of the ideas expressed in a wide-ranging interview at the Ted (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference in Vancouver. But he added that consumers need to accept that a new era of open data is inevitable. Interviewed on the Ted stage by US television host Charlie Rose, Mr Page was asked why Google bought the UK machine learning firm DeepMind. "I was looking at search and trying to understand how to make computers less clunky and also thinking about how speech recognition is not very good," said Mr Page.