Google Says 'Exponential' Growth of AI is Changing Nature of Compute

Google software engineer Cliff Young says the use of artificial intelligence has reached an "exponential phase" at the very same time that Moore's Law has ground to a standstill. The explosion of AI and machine learning is changing the very nature of computing, so says one of the biggest practitioners of AI, Google. Google software engineer Cliff Young gave the opening keynote on Thursday morning at the Linley Group Fall Processor Conference, a popular computer-chip symposium put on by venerable semiconductor analysis firm The Linley Group, in Santa Clara, California. Said Young, the use of AI has reached an "exponential phase" at the very same time that Moore's Law, the decades-old rule of thumb about semiconductor progress, has ground to a standstill. "The times are slightly neurotic," he mused.