"Google's secret strategy appears ..."
INTERVIEW - Laurent Alexandre, expert in technologies of the future, analyzes the new role of Google in our lives and in our societies.
Laurent Alexandre is an atypical personality whose expertise is listened to. Urological surgeon by training, graduate of ENA, HEC and Sciences-Po, co-founder of Doctissimo.fr, he now chairs the DNA Vision genome sequencing company. This "brain" is interested "in the upheavals which the progress of science, technomedicine and biotechnologies will bring about for humanity". He devoted a remarkable essay to it entitled The Death of Death in which he affirms that "the man who will live 1.000 years has already been born".
Google is the world's first artificial intelligence embryo, in your opinion. Why?
The goal of Google executives is to transform their search engine into artificial intelligence. Gradually they get closer. In fact, no one saw it coming, neither the daily users of the search engine, nor its competitors. It took a while for Google's leadership strategy to be understood. I am blown away by the speed with which this company controls key industries for the XNUMXst century.
Explain yourself…
Watch the wave of start-up and company buyouts that Google is carrying out! In two years, this company has successfully preempted three key markets. That of the fight against death: she created Calico, a subsidiary which has this crazy goal of increasing life expectancy by twenty years by 2035. It has invested in DNA sequencing with its subsidiary 23andMe, but also in a project of smart lenses for diabetics, which measure your blood sugar in real time. At the same time, and in less than a year, Google bought out the eight main robotics companies. Including Boston Dynamics, which creates the robot dog "BigDog" for the American army, or Nest, world leader in home automation and smart objects ... Meanwhile, its Google Car, an incredible mix of robotics and artificial intelligence, drives thousands of miles alone on California roads without an accident. If in the year 2000 you brought up the idea of an autonomous robot car, everyone was laughing! In 2025, it will be democratized. Finally, in recent years, Google has been debauchery of the biggest names in artificial intelligence. Like Ray Kurzweil, the "pope" of transhumanism, who has just been appointed chief search engine engineer.
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