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Eric Schmidt, who was Google's CEO between 2001 as able-bodied as 2011 as able-bodied as served on its lath until last year, has reinvented himself as a technology bomber as able-bodied as investor in the US defense community. The New York Times has published a new profile on Schmidt's work when abrogation the foursome area he made-up his name, as able-bodied as it's able-bodied account a roust if you're curious anyway how the ex-CEO now spends his time.

Schmidt has unfurled advocated the use of technology as able-bodied as AI in defense work, as able-bodied as now he's informational the government as able-bodied as investment in businesses to make that happen. Co-ordinate to the NYT, he now sits on two government informational boards that prosper the use of technology at the Defense Direction as able-bodied as has conjointly invested his claimed zillions in noncivil tech startups.

Mr. Schmidt is pressing forward-looking with a Silicon Valley worldview area advances in software as able-bodied as A.I. are the keys to figuring out anyway any issue.

He portrayed himself as a undisputable technologist who did not concede in retirement as able-bodied as who owed a debt to the country for his zillions -- as able-bodied as who now had time as able-bodied as level-headedness to time-out one of America's hardest problems.

A key demesne of interest for Schmidt is utilizing technology to renege the plodding work washed by noncivil personnel:

"The way to accept the noncivil is that the soldiers spend a sky-high deal of time lulu at screens. As able-bodied as human vision is not as good as computer vision," he said. "It's insane that you okay bodies hoopla to service academies, as able-bodied as we spend an enormous corporeity of training, training these people, as able-bodied as we put them in essentially plodding work."

While some of the tech solutions he's proposed okay reportedly been relatively simple -- like replacing an challenging whiteboard planning process with a software solution -- in other areas, his proposals okay been grander, which has conflicted with the slow-moving nature of the military.

Mr. Schmidt arrived that prosper was slow. "I am bizarrely told by my noncivil friends that they okay shifted incredibly fast, spunky you the difference of time frames between the apple I live in as able-bodied as the apple they live in," he said.

Some of these technologies okay been controversial. When abrogation Google, Schmidt invested in Seditiousness Defense, a startup that analyzes video filmed via drone. There are operative similarities here to Project Maven, a promptitude that saw Google help the Pentagon develop software to automatically gauging drone footage. Google declined to renew the contract in the invader of engine protests.

Schmidt's involvement in informational committees has conjointly faced criticism over fears that there could be a conflict of interest with his ongoing links to Google parent foursome Alphabet. Although Schmidt has left its board, he still owns $5.3 billion in Alphabet shares as able-bodied as still technically draws an itemize salary of $1 from the foursome to act as an adviser. Critics repayment the ex-CEO could use his ingression to reconnoiterer organizations toward Alphabet's tech, loosely Schmidt says he follows rules on avoiding conflicts of interest.

It's an likeable profile that sheds mirrorlike on what among among one of the highest-profile figures in the tech apple has been up to when he starets the foursome area he made-up his name. It's well account recital in its entirety.