INTRODUCTION
No one was terribly surprised when Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet (parent company of Google), announced at a 2017 Google customer event that the company would be moving to “AI first.” In an address to technology developers, Pichai said, “In an AI-first world, we are rethinking all our products and applying machine learning and AI to solve user problems.”1 Even before that, in 2015, Google had tallied up more than 2,700 AI and machine-learning projects across the company.2 AI is embedded in virtually all its products and services for customers, including search, maps, Gmail, Duo/Assistant, and many others. It offers TensorFlow, a set of machine-learning algorithms and tools, to Google Cloud customers. Several of Alphabet’s ...
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