Gadgetory

this is sundar Pichai recently he's been put in charge of a whole bunch of stuff at Google Chrome Android apps search if you use a Google product chances are he's running it why does that matter well Google's kind of a big deal for technology and what he thinks about technology is going to be what Google thinks of technology so if we can understand what he believes we can get a small glimpse into the future of tech every year Google holds a huge developer conference called Google i/o it's a place for them to let developers know what they're thinking about for the next year and what Google is thinking about for the next year involves a lot of high-end computer learning so this is your first I oh I think where you are fully completely officially in charge of everything that's getting presented has that sort of changed anything about the way that you guys run i/o or like these are like a theme that you're sort of able to fully like be in charge of at a high level I think you know I think of what we are doing in terms of two core things okay we really want to work on big problems that helps solve big problems and users lives right and we want to do it at scale we want to do it for everyone the second is our core mission statement which is to organize users information and for me in a lot of that means how do you do it in the current world in a mobile context because that's what users are grappling with for me when I look at mobile it's been one of the most amazing things we have all seen but from a user standpoint a deluge with information which is which is great they get a lot of stuff done but we think we can help do it better so you will see us talk about how we can take Google now and make it work better in the context of you know your phone and if you're looking for information in the context of using applications how can we do that if you listen to what Sandara is talking about you can see how it applies to everything that Google is announcing here at i/o photos is going to give you all your photos in the cloud and it's going to use Google's computers to help you search them Android M has this crazy new feature called now on tap that can search inside apps and give you suggestions for what you want to do and even cardboard is using Google servers to stitch together 360-degree 3d virtual reality video they're all examples of Google's advancements in machine learning it gives everyone the power of Google supercomputers right on their phone supercomputers for you or me is great at all but Google's next step is to bring them to people that haven't had computers at all so I've been talking to a bunch of people over the past couple weeks and a phrase I'm hearing over and over again is you know the next billion if there's a billion people using Android how do we get the next billion and it seems like you guys are doing a lot but what do you think is like the most effective where you're going to have the most gains you know the anti-peace industry reached about 1.7 billion people we are truly dealing with the first computing platform which is going to touch people at scale mm-hmm at a core we want to build products for everyone and so about a basic level at a foundational level both providing computing making it accessible which is why we are interested in Android one their interests in affordable Chromebooks and the thinking about connectivity over time which is why we are doing things like project loon Project loon is probably the most obvious example of how Google is trying to reach the next billion it's floating giant weather balloons over remote regions of the world to provide Internet access and it's this kind of crazy stuff that I find really interesting about Google as a company it's shown interest in AI robotics and even curing death and there's also programs like a tab which combines hard science with incredibly short deadlines to create things like modular phones and radar enabled wearables that are so ambitious they hardly seem believable it seems like a lot of the stuff is like really cool and interesting but it's hard for me to see a path for it to be anything more than like a cool experiment and so I'm what I'm wondering like what your feeling is about these different divisions within Google that are doing crazy stuff and like should they just keep doing crazy stuff or should stuff be like push to become productized or become a core part of Google we do them because we we believe that software is at a stage where you know software increasingly is playing a more and more critical role in solving things which it didn't before okay so to me when I look at cars people spend an inordinate amount of time in cars these are resources which are very poorly utilized right now as we speak you know you can look outside and you can see all the cars which are proud cars we rented we ready to get here is just sitting in the parking strike so they can't use less than 10% so we see these problems and we see okay can we swallow that scale and just computing play a part in it software and computer science and while the effort may seem ambitious or crazy aha you know we take a very disciplined approach inside right you know so those are taught through like businesses which we are building and it's just to be able to take a long-term view but we run them in a very disciplined way our research can be longer term and we do that precisely in research you know when we take research projects like Google a tab or a core research we never know whether some of them even makes viable business applications but we want to push the technology at times because you don't know what's possible on the other side okay I'll admit that it's totally a cliche to say that Google is trying to give everybody a supercomputer in their pocket but that is really what they're trying to do it's in a gala terian vision of the future of computing and even if you're not a fan of all of their advertising and tracking it's still hard not to be inspired by cinders vision the thing which attracted me to Google and to Internet in general is that it's a great equalizer right and so to me always being struck by the fact that Google search work the same mm-hmm if as long as you had access to computer with connectivity if you were a rural kid anywhere or if you were a professor at Stanford or hard work and and to me you know I want Google to strive to push to do that not just build technology for a certain segments right for me it's it matters that you know we drive technology as a as an equalizing force as an enabler to everyone around the world