Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI predictions, checked a decade later
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Kevin Kelly's 2016 book The Inevitable predicted that by 2026 Google's main product would be AI rather than search, and that a few large cloud-based AI systems would dominate.
A Hacker News post from October 2026 revisits those excerpts and argues that Google uses search queries to train its AI, and that most commercial AI will be narrow, special-purpose software. The report gives the excerpts and the author's argument, but no source for the claim about Google's training data or for its view of commercial AI.
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AIKevin Kelly's 2016 book The Inevitable predicted that by 2026 Google's main product would be AI rather than search, and that a few large cloud-based AI systems would dominate. The author revisits these excerpts a decade later, arguing that Google is using search queries to train its AI and that most commercial AI will be narrow, special-purpose software.
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