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Feb 3, 2016

Head of Google Search retires, artificial intelligence chief to take over

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Very sad to see Amit leave; wonderful man and leader. John taking over Search Engine makes perfect sense since AI is predominantly about information, scanning the net and absorbing info like a sponge to make predictive analysis and decisions from the information available to it. Plus, you add the capabilities to assess people’s search and net activities to the mix; AI is about predicting a person’s mind and habits/ interests. So, merging AI and Search totally make sense and probably was already happening anyway given other press releases.


With Amit Singhal leaving, Google is reportedly merging the AI and search divisions.

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