Speaking Saturday on the UN Summit of the Future, Google CEO Sundar Pichai described AI as “the most transformative technology yet” and introduced a brand new fund for AI training and coaching world wide.
Pichai pointed to 4 broad alternatives he sees for AI and sustainable growth, based on a transcript of his ready remarks — serving to folks entry data in their very own language, accelerating scientific discovery, offering alerts and monitoring round local weather disasters, and fueling financial progress.
Pichai acknowledged that AI additionally presents dangers, for instance with deep fakes, although he didn’t point out AI’s impression on the local weather.
He added that he needs to keep away from a worldwide “AI divide” that mirrors the present digital divide. So Google is making a $120 million Global AI Opportunity Fund via which the corporate will “make AI education and training available in communities around the world,” supplied in native languages, in partnership with native nonprofits and NGOs.
On the identical theme, Pichai known as for “smart product regulation that mitigates harms and resists national protectionist impulses” — in any other case, he predicted regulation may “widen an AI divide and limit AI’s benefits.”
