Steve Brown

So co-founded some startups along the way.

And then more recently, I got to come back to London and recharge my British accent.

and work for Google DeepMind.

So I did an assignment for them for about 18 months and had the time of my life in King's Cross working with some of the smartest AI minds on the planet.

So I've had a very, very career.

Now I help Fortune 500 companies around the world understand AI, what it means for them, and how do they build an AI-first organization so that they can, well, I was going to say be successful.

Realistically, it'll still be around five years from now.

That's kind of what it comes down to.

What sort of futures were you talking about back then?

This is 2015, 2016 timeframe.

We were able to look out 10 or 15 years, and that was the timeframe that we were looking at.

And so I helped them wrap up the 2025, 2026 business plan when I was there.

And there were a few of us who were saying it's really about...

what at the time we were calling cognitive computing, which was before people were really saying AI.

And the vision we had back then that that intelligence would be embedded into objects.

Intel was a very, and still is in some ways, a very PC-centric organization.

And so they always saw the world through the lens of that.

And they were looking at embedding intelligence in things.

And they really weren't seeing what actually happened, which is the intelligence went into the cloud.

So that was what people were thinking about was intelligent devices everywhere that would coordinate.