Properly harnessed, digital technology can enable individuals, firms, cities, and governments to become smarter – to expand their capabilities and to adapt to new and changing conditions.
"Education," he said, "has two great goals: to become smart and to become good.
An operation that has waged political war as incompetently as the Bush administration waged war in Iraq is unlikely to suddenly become smart enough to pull off that duplicitous a "victory".
Schmidt dismissed concerns that AIs could eventually become smart enough to be a threat to humans.
The first is that processors have become smart enough to bring mainframe class performance to the server market.
Third, we have to become smarter at using the tools we already have to merge prevention and innovation.
Robert Buchanan, a finance professor who specializes in retail at the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University, said shoppers had become smart enough to sidestep the regularly priced goods.
And some worry that if AI moves beyond supervised learning and pattern recognition -- if robots and software become smart enough to better themselves and learn new skills -- we could reach a technological singularity that wipes out mankind altogether.
Yet after the humiliation of the Copenhagen climate talks, at which the EU barely had a voice, even countries wary of integration would like Europe to become smarter at diplomatic strategy, once it has a common position.
Our young people are in college to become smarter, wiser, to become tomorrow's leaders.
