Artificial intelligence has the potential for 'huge breakthroughs' across industries, Matt Brittin says.
Artificial Intelligence technology is "too important not to get right", a top Google executive has told the BBC.
The long-term agreement will focus on a number of areas including robotics, healthcare and climate change. "If we get it right, there could be huge breakthroughs in health, the potential for unlimited, clean energy, and a society where everyone has opportunities through education and powerful, intelligent tools.Vice president of research at Google DeepMind, and professor of information engineering at Cambridge University, Zoubin Ghahramani told the BBC the research the new centre would do could help address climate problems.
Mr Brittin said sustainability and solutions for addressing a climate crisis had been a long-term focus for Google and its AI arm, DeepMind, saying its research helped reduce energy consumption and costs in the tech giant's data centres.
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