“Artificial Intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. If we had the ultimate search engine, it would understand everything on the web. It would understand exactly what you wanted and it would give you the right thing”
“That’s obviously artificial intelligence. To be able to answer any question basically, because almost everything is on the web, right?”
“We’re no where near that now. However we can get incrementally closer to that and that’s basically what we work on. And that’s tremendously interesting from an intellectual standpoint”
We weren’t exactly living in caves in 2000. He’s a computer scientist. He’d have to have been pretty terrible at his job to not see this by then.