Can Google make us Smarter?

Can Google make us Smarter?

Artificial Intelligence has a very high profile over the last few years, as huge quantities of data from the Web have given computers new kinds of capability. But what about Human Intelligence? Google is building smart cars that understand the roads, but can Google make smart humans that understand the world? In this talk I will look at some of the ways that we have tried to make computers help us to be more intelligent, from Indexing the Internet, to Webs of Semantics, to Data Storytelling.