The head of Google's parent company says welcoming artificial intelligence into daily life is akin to buying a refrigerator.

Alphabet's chief executive, Indian-born Sundar Pichai, gave a revealing interview to the BBC this week in which he asked the general population to get on board with automation through AI.

'Our first refrigerator .... radically changed my mom's life.'

The BBC's Faisal Islam, whose parents are from India, asked the Indian-American executive if the purpose of his AI products were to automate human tasks and essentially replace jobs with programming.

Pichai claimed that AI should be welcomed because humans are "overloaded" and "juggling many things."

He then compared using AI to welcoming the technology that a dishwasher or fridge once brought to the average hom

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