Google infrastructure chief: No replacement of bosses by robots

This is because there are many aspects of human interaction that are obvious to us humans, but that machine learning has absolutely no command of. "There is still a big gap," said the Basel native, who is the longest-serving employee of the search engine company after Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Understanding human communication is quite difficult for computers. Management and leadership have a lot to do with interactions between people, with motivation and communication. Machine learning is unlikely to be able to replace this in this decade, said Hölzle.

Today, machine learning is able to determine whether a photo shows a beach, for example, and makes it possible to search for it in the photo directory. Better collaboration Machine learning offers opportunities for improving collaboration in companies. If an employee is working on a certain topic, the computer can make suggestions as to which documents are needed next. Or it could remind an email writer if they have forgotten to enter someone from a certain group in the address field, said Hölzle. Machine learning improves collaboration in large organizations.

Award for web pioneer

The inventor of the public Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, is to be honored for his life's work at the fifth World Web Forum this afternoon. The prize will be presented to the Briton by Federal Councillor Johann Schneider-Ammann. A quarter of a century ago, the physicist and computer scientist introduced the world's first publicly accessible website at CERN in Geneva. The common "language" with which computers connected to the Internet can communicate and exchange data goes back to him. This language was called Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP for short. Berners-Lee also laid the foundations for surfing the Internet from one website to another. (SDA)

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