Here's a high level overview of what motivates many AI teams at Google, what gives us confidence that humans will solve intelligence, the recent impact of advances in this work, and some examples of how people can get started today... for free! I first gave this talk to recipients of the 2019 AI for Good Awards, then again to recipients of the 2019 NASA FDL Challenge Fellowships. The slides are mainly a backdrop, but people still seemed to want a copy.