Tokyo: Jeffrey (Jeff) Dean is a Google senior fellow in a research group at Google where he leads the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) project called Google Brain. Along with his team, Dean, who joined Google in 1999, is currently implementing the company’s vision as articulated by chief executive Sundar Pichai—to build an “AI-first” world. In an interview on the sidelines of a “Google #MadewithAI” event, held recently in Tokyo, Dean explains what this vision encompasses and the challenges involved in implementing it. Edited excerpts: What are the major steps involved in this process of implementing the Google strategy of building an AI-first world? The steps involve making products that are useful, help others innovate and solve humanity’s big challenges. We want to solve new, fundamental AI and machine learning (ML) problems, and use those solutions in our products to make them better. How much progress have you achieved? Even in the 1980s and 1990s, people w...