t-What's Driving Google's Obsession With Artificial Intelligence And Robots?

Reuven Cohen | Forbes

Why is a company built on finding information and serving up ads, spending vast amounts on a variety of outlandish projects?

“What drives the Google founders is an acute understanding of the possibilities that long-term developments in information technology have deposited in mankind’s lap. Computing power has been doubling every 18 months since 1956. Bandwidth has been tripling and electronic storage capacity has been quadrupling every year."

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