Defining an AI Strategy

Abstract

In 2017 at the annual Google I/O conference, Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, stood up on stage and announced that the opportunities afforded by AI were such that Google was moving from a mobile-first to an AI-first strategy. That statement really brought the message home to many about the importance of AI and the need to formulate an AI strategy. Google, the technology behemoth, was turning into a full-blown AI company. They had alluded to it in the past; everyone knew that Google was heavily invested in AI and using it extensively, but this was different. It left no space for doubt. AI-first.