A Google researcher said that we'll become 'highly dependent' on artificial intelligence in the near future

Google just announced that they're making a big bet on artificial intelligence to move the company's services forward. During Google's Q3 earnings call CEO Sundar Pichai said the company was "re-thinking" all of its products to include more artificial intelligence and an approach called machine learning. Artificial intelligence (AI) has always played a huge part in Google's success. We talked to Geoffrey Hinton, AI researcher at Google and the University of Toronto, over email about the future of the field. He predicted that AI will likely loom ever larger in our lives, without our even knowing it.