Actually, Larry Page himself thought from very early beginning that Google is an AI company: AROUND 2002 I attended a small party for Google—before its IPO, wh

Actually, Larry Page himself thought from very early beginning that Google is an AI company: AROUND 2002 I attended a small party for Google—before its IPO, when it only focused on search. I struck up a conversation with Larry Page, Google’s brilliant cofounder, who became the company’s CEO in 2011. “Larry, I still don’t get it. There are so many search companies. Web search, for free? Where does that get you?”… But Page’s reply has always stuck with me: “Oh, we’re really making an AI.” http://www.wired.com/2014/10/future-of-artificial-intelligence/ http://www.wired.com/2014/10/future-of-artificial-intelligen...