Google's Eric Schmidt Says AI Will Make Him Smarter, Cooler

The next big thing in tech is going to be AI. That's what a lot of people in Silicon Valley has been saying lately. Add one more to the list: former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "To me the biggest platforms will be the ones that will be driven by artificial intelligence," he told an audience gathered at Bell Labs, in Murray Hill, N.J., last month. Schmidt, now executive chairman of Google's parent company Alphabet, was a speaker at a conference celebrating the life and work of Claude Shannon, the legendary Bell Labs engineer whose ideas revolutionized modern communications.