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Big Tech corporations prefer it Google they are betting that AI technology will help them earn billions in profits, and they are devoting a lot of resources to this technology.
But this rush to monetize AI raises questions about who will reap the spoils: Are we heading toward a future where everyone prospers, or one where the wealthy get richer and the poor stagnate?
Google CEO Sundar Pichai believes that we are moving towards a higher, more just world.
At Saturday’s Future Summit, where world leaders gathered at the United Nations headquarters in New York to debate artificial intelligence and other topics, Pichai made a strong case for the advantages of artificial intelligence. According to the UN, he outlined 4 key areas where AI can support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals – 17 goals that include “a shared agenda for peace and prosperity for people and the planet.”
Access to knowledge in your native language
Pichai said Google has added 110 recent languages to Google Translate over the past yr and is working to create the 1,000 most used languages in the world.
Accelerating scientific discovery
in May Google announced Alphafold 3a model developed by Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs that allows accurate prediction of the structure of proteins, DNA, RNA and ligands and represents an revolutionary breakthrough in drug discovery.
Google has since made Alphafold available for free and has been accessed by greater than 2 million researchers in greater than 190 countries, 30% of them in developing countries, Pichai said. “Around the world, Alphafold is being used in research that could help increase crop disease resistance, discover new drugs in areas such as malaria vaccines, cancer treatments and much more.”
Mitigating the climate catastrophe
Pichai said Google’s Flood Hub system provides early warnings of climate disasters seven days in advance and protects greater than 460 million people in 80 countries. Google’s systems for tracking fire boundaries are now available in 22 countries. Earlier this month, Google did too announced FireSat“a new global satellite constellation designed specifically to detect and track class-sized fires within 20 minutes.”
Artificial intelligence gives these technologies “increases in accuracy, speed and scale,” he said.
Contributing to economic progress
Pichai said research shows AI could increase global labor productivity by 1.4 percentage points and increase global GDP by 7 points over the next decade.