Google’s Eric Schmidt Explains AI Is Not Threat To Humans, Transformative Technology Is Key

Google's Eric Schmidt is reported to have spent less time discussing business at Google and more time talking about the new technologies. In a recent interview, the former CEO made an appeal to address the important issues in science and technology instead of politics, emphasizing the need to reach to an agreement as a key.

Schmidt takes note of the fact that the United States has a lot of smart people, given that the American model has got through the past 30 year. He believes that the country should focus on this and agree on what the projects should be. To explain further, Schmidt mentioned the 3D printing of buildings as well as the use of a human stem cells to grow new part of the body when necessary. 

The executive chairman of Google's parent company Alphabet said that the problem is spending too much time fighting about political issues that are basically not that significant, while failing to do much on things that are transformative. On the likelihood of medical breakthroughs, Schmidt appeared to be excited, saying that biology and computer science would both have rebirths if he was going to start again. He also described talking to computer scientists working in biology and made a prediction about having a healthcare record in the future, which will be more than just a medical bill. According to Schmidt, this will combine medical information with bigger statistical trends to inform the doctors about the risks and condition, according to Observer.

As for AI, Schmidt stated that Google, Facebook and IBM are already developing on different things. He cited IBM's Watson model that functions well for Jeopardy as well as complex problem solving, while Facebook's Deep Text deals with natural language. Meanwhile, Google plans to develop an underlying platform that enables people to do all this stuff. In particular, Google's AI company Deep Mind is considering computer systems that will learn the similar way humans do.

Schmidt also denied that artificial intelligence may eventually become smart enough to consider as a threat to humans. He believes that there is at least one crucial breakthrough required prior to reaching the type of human level intelligence for the artificial one, Tech Crunch reported.