Google: Scary-smart AI still 'decades and decades' away

Google executives talk about the company's future in artificial intelligence. During his keynote talk, Pichai also showed a video of several robot arms that a research group at Google taught to pick up objects. "It's also conflated with the fact that people look at things like robots learning to pick things up and that's somehow inherently scary to people," Giannandrea said. In April, Facebook unveiled a new Applied Machine Learning group.