Kevin Kelly's 2016 predictions: by 2026 Google's main product will be AI, not search
hq4ai · x · 2026-10-13
A recap of Kevin Kelly's 2016 forecasts about AI a decade out, praised for independent thinking.
- By 2026, Google's main product will be AI rather than search
- An oligarchy of two or three large, general-purpose, cloud-based commercial intelligences
A useful baseline for judging today's AI landscape.
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