Ted Schönbeck, Nordic CTO, Google Cloud discusses the current and future landscape of AI, emphasizing its ability to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, with machine learning allowing systems to learn independently. Google, an "AI-first" company since 2016, has integrated AI into products like Maps and Search. Schönbeck highlights recent advancements in large language models and generative AI, particularly the use of large token windows for analyzing extensive datasets and the rise of multimodal AI, which processes diverse data types like text, images, and audio. He also addresses the challenges businesses face in scaling AI, recommending fine-tuned, specialized models over generalized large ones.