AI progress is increasingly framed around automation and job displacement. But Google executive Yossi Matias thinks the technology will be most important as a tool for helping humans make scientific breakthroughs. As head of Google Research, he's worked on many projects over a distinguished career, including Google Trends, autocomplete, and Duplex. Matias's interest has always been to explore what's next and then apply that to reality. He calls this the "magic cycle," and sees AI accelerating the process. L ...