A few days ago,Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin gave an exclusive interview with the company in which he mentioned quite a bit about the AI Current and future status.
Discussing the topic of 'Current AI Development vs. Past Expectations', Brin said that it's amazing how far AI has come from 'playful imagination' to what it shows today. He said that people's predictions of the future were like a theoretical 'chat' that no one could have predicted, but today's AI breakthroughs have made everything 'surprisingly real'.
With the release of multimodal AI systems like Gemini 2.0, Brin believes that humanity has entered a new phase of "model-as-system": it is no longer just a model with inputs and outputs, but rather a complete ecosystem with native support for search, code execution, and tool invocation. This system thinking will revolutionize the public's definition of AI capabilities.
Brin predicts that AI will move away from 'coming up with answers quickly' to 'thinking deeply over time' - by running models for longer periods of time, such as allowing them to reason for an hour, a day, or even a month, in order to get more reliable and in-depth results in complex tasks. This, he describes as 'a superpower of AI'.