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

Google executives talk about the company's future in artificial intelligence. Whenever we talk about artificial intelligence, someone inevitably mentions Skynet, the destructive machine system in the Terminator movies. But we shouldn't be worried about a dystopian rise of the robots. Because we're so far away from anything that would even resemble that scenario, he said Friday at Google's I/O developer conference near the company's HQ in Mountain View, California. "I think researchers in the field don't really put much thought into that," he said.