Those of you familiar with the works of Charles Dickens may recognise them from "A Tale of Two Cities". Those of you who have been following advances in fields like artificial intelligence (AI) may see why Brin decided to quote them at the start of this year's letter. Brin, who founded Google in 1998 with Stanford classmate Larry Page, writes in the letter published Friday that we are in "an era of great inspiration and possibility." He adds "with this opportunity comes the need for tremendous thoughtfulness and responsibility as technology is deeply and irrevocably interwoven into our societies." Now aged 44, Brin calls out AI as the most significant development in computing in his lifetime, saying that the technology already has an astounding number of applications today.

Source: Forbes April 29, 2018 01:18 UTC