Google wants to solve new AI problems: Jeffrey Dean

Tokyo: Jeffrey (Jeff) Dean is a Google senior fellow in a research group at Google where he leads the company's artificial intelligence (AI) project called Google Brain. Along with his team, Dean, who joined Google in 1999, is currently implementing the company's vision as articulated by chief executive Sundar Pichai--to build an "AI-first" world. In an interview on the sidelines of a "Google #MadewithAI" event, held recently in Tokyo, Dean explains what this vision encompasses and the challenges involved in implementing it. What are the major steps involved in this process of implementing the Google strategy of building an AI-first world? The steps involve making products that are useful, help others innovate and solve humanity's big challenges.