In 2002, Wired magazine’s Kevin Kelly quizzed Google’s Larry Page about why his search engine was free, reports philosopher Yuval Noah Harari in ‘Nexus – A Brief History of Information Networks From The Stone Age to AI’ (Random House).
“Where does that get you?” he asked. Page replied that Google wasn’t about search at all.
“We’re really making an AI,” he said. “Having lots of data makes it easier to create an AI. “And AI can turn lots of data into lots of power.”
Ya think?
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