TIME: 100 Most Influential People in AI
“Could AI upend Google’s dominance in search? Richard Socher certainly thinks so. In 2022, the computer scientist launched his own AI-based search engine, You.com, which he believes will improve upon Google’s biggest flaws: its thicket of advertisements; its incentive structure that leads to bad SEO microsites; its lack of privacy. Search is how most people interact with the internet—and it’s fundamentally broken, Socher argues. AI, he hopes, can fix it by giving us better, faster information.”