>>Eric Schmidt: What's the end game for search?
Getting you to the right answer.
The most interesting thing about getting you
to the right answer is that sometimes the
right answer is not a question that you asked.
Interesting.
We have a product called Google Now, which
is the first example of this, which if you
enable it and you just let it run, it eventually,
more or less, guesses what you do every day
in terms of driving.
And it tells you how long it takes you to
get to work and to get home.
Now, how does it do that?
It makes some guesses.
It doesn't have to be perfect.
You didn't ask it.
It is just trying to be helpful.
I know that's a simple example, but it is
the general point of how AI and computation
will make our lives better.
Eventually, you will wake up in the morning
and there will be some flat screen.
And you will sit there and look at the flat
screen and you will wake up and say "Hello,"
and it will say "Hello, Eric," because it
is your bedroom.
And you will go, Okay.
Do I have to get up?
It will say, No.
It has already scanned -- it is all opt in.
You have already chosen this.
It has looked at what's going to happen today.
It's figured out roughly what is going to
happen.
Is there going to be a traffic jam?
You are always late to the airport and there
is a traffic jam.
But today there is not going to be one so
you can sleep for an extra 15 minutes.
How is that possible?
Because of modern computation and modern data
that's available to us.
Do you think people will use this?
Of course they will.
Think of the evolution of search from today
where you type and you sort of scan and so
forth, which obviously works very well at
Google, which is our core business and drives
much of the use of Google today.
Think of that as eventually moving to a platform
where we help you get through the day with
this sort of infinitely intelligent personal
digital assistant that actually sort of can
help you figure out, This is my priority.
This is what I should do.
This is where I would have the most fun, and
this is what I should avoid.
We introduced something called Google Glass
which has gotten a lot of publicity because
of some of the implications of it.
You sit there and you go: Would I really use
this?
You betcha!
People at Google who are trying this thing
out said they find it so incredibly convenient
because it is always there.
It is always helping you out.
You can talk to it.
It talks back.
