Google Lens resurfaces questions about AI and human identity

Today at the company's annual developer conference, Google CEO Sundar Pichai uttered a phrase that will no doubt be repeated in corporate board rooms across the world for the foreseeable future: "AI first." It wasn't the first we've heard of the formerly "mobile first" company's focus on artificial intelligence, but Google I/O 2017 marked the first time we saw many of the tools that will backup that new catchphrase. "When we started working on search, we wanted to do it at scale," CEO Sundar Pichai said at the conference's opening-day keynote today. "That's why we designed our data centers from the ground up and put a lot of effort into them. Now that we're evolving for this machine-learning and AI world, we're building what we think of as AI-first data centers."