我们相信,AI [包括其核心方法,比如机器学习 (ML)] 是一项颠覆性奠基技术。AI 为各种工具、产品和服务赋予了创新用途,每天都会被数十亿人以及诸多企业、政府和其他组织使用。从习以为常的琐事到天马行空的创新,AI 技术可在几乎所有领域为人类提供帮助、补充、动力和启迪。AI 能“解锁”科学新发现,帮助人类攻坚克难、把握机遇、与时俱进。
正如许多人已强调的那样,我们相信 AI 可凭借它的以下能力造福人类和社会:
AI 的奠基性意味着它将赋能现有基础设施、工具、软件、硬件和设备,甚至那些通常被视为与 AI 无关的产品和服务,让它们发生巨变。以 Google 搜索、Google 地图、Google 相册、Google Workspace、Android 和 Pixel 手机为例,AI 已使我们的产品和服务焕然一新。它将显著增强这些产品和服务的实用性,为用户创造更大的价值。它还将孕育出全新类别的辅助工具、产品和服务,且通常会为这些工具和服务赋予独特、突破性的创新功能和性能。这包括更强大更包容的语言翻译器、对话式 AI 和助理、生成式多模态 AI、机器人技术以及无人驾驶汽车。而这一切只是序幕。
We believe that AI, including its core methods such as machine learning (ML), is a foundational and transformational technology. AI enables innovative new uses of tools, products, and services, and it is used by billions of people every day, as well as businesses, governments, and other organizations. AI can assist, complement, empower, and inspire people in almost every field ,from everyday tasks to bold and imaginative endeavors. It can unlock new scientific discoveries and opportunities, and help tackle humanity's greatest challenges -today and in the future.
As many have highlighted, we believe that AI has the potential to benefit people and society through its capacity to:
- Make information more useful and available to more people, everywhere, often helping overcome barriers including access, disabilities and language
- Assist people and organizations to make decisions, solve problems, be more productive and creative in their daily and work lives
- Enable innovation that leads to new, helpful products and services for people, organizations, and society more broadly
- Help tackle current and pressing real world challenges, such as public health crises, natural disasters, climate change, and sustainability
- Help identify, and mitigate societal biases and structural inequities (e.g. socio-economic, socio-demographic and regional inequities)
- Enable scientific and other breakthroughs to address humanity's greatest future opportunities and challenges (e.g. medical diagnosis, drug discovery, climate forecasting)
The foundational nature of AI means that AI will also power and transform existing infrastructure, tools, software, hardware, and devices-including products and services not normally thought of as AI. Examples in our case that are already being transformed by AI include Google Search, Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Workspace, Android, and Pixel phones. It will significantly enhance their usefulness and multiply their value to people. It will also lead to new categories of assistive tools, products, and services, often with breakthrough capabilities and performance made possible only through AI. This includes more powerful and inclusive language translators, conversational AI and assistants, generative and multi-modal AI, robotics and driverless cars. And this is just the beginning.