Actually, Jeff Dean is an idiot now. I think that's what happens when you get to level 11.

> Jeff Dean: That’s obviously a very broad space, and there’s a lot of potential for using machine learning to help tackle climate change-related topics or mitigate some of the effects. So we’re pretty excited about this. I think Google and the [AI] community in general [are] excited because it’s a serious problem, and also … one that has a lot of technical meat behind it. Like, how can we actually apply machine learning [to] some of these subproblems?

That answer contains zero information. It's word salad. So ya, smartest guys at Google.