Will AI Do For Search What It's Doing For Robotics?

Geoffrey Hinton, known as the godfather of deep learning -- the tech that helped Google's AlphaGo beat a master at Go -- said the most powerful machines are about a million times smarter than the human brain, and becoming more sophisticated each year. Hinton, who splits his time between working at Google and the University of Toronto, earned a PhD in AI from Edinburgh in 1978. While Google uses AI in its search engines to learn how to return smarter query results, Hinton predicts it still will take more than five years before machines possess human-level abilities. Start with search engines and move the technology into android-looking robotics. The robotics use many of the technologies required for smarter search engine queries, such as artificial intelligence and natural language processing.