"Edit: Also, how is Peter Norvig not Google's AI chief???" I would imagine Norvig as more a thinker and less of a doer. I think Google has reached a point wher

"Edit: Also, how is Peter Norvig not Google's AI chief???" I would imagine Norvig as more a thinker and less of a doer. I think Google has reached a point where their flavor of AI works sufficiently well where now the only problem left is getting buy-in from as many teams as possible within Google. Jeff Dean might be more decision-maker, politically connected(internally at Google) and less of a thinker-type in moving this initiative forward. They're both extremely valuable just in different ways. It's one thing to build it(AI) but an entire other problem to get the AI into Google's huge suite of internal/external systems and products.