Podcaster Lex Fridman has introduced that he’ll quickly interview Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai for his podcast and has requested customers to share questions and subject recommendations for the dialogue. Fridman has beforehand additionally hosted different AI figures together with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and xAI’s Elon Musk.
In a submit on X saying his podcast with Pichai, Fridman wrote, “I am doing a podcast with @sundarpichai quickly. Let me know in case you have any questions / subject recommendations. The speed of AI progress has been insane. It makes me excited for the longer term (much more than standard 🤣) and excited to speak with leaders & engineers who’re constructing that future.”
Notably, Google had rolled out varied upgrades to its Gemini language fashions, Google Meet, Picture 4 video picture technology mode, Veo 3 video technology mannequin and AI chatbot for Google Search.
Whereas Google appeared woefully missing within the AI race when ChatGPT made its public debut in late 2022, the corporate has made lengthy strides since then and gone on to develop into the most important gamers within the newest expertise by implementing Gemini’s AI fashions throughout its merchandise from Docs to Search, Gmail and extra.
Talking in regards to the energy of AI in empowering customers, Pichai stated in an interview with the All In podcast, “I feel in case you take a look at how a lot info means to folks, I feel they’re going to every individual goes to have entry to info in a means they’ve by no means had earlier than, so it feels very removed from a zero-sum assemble to me. And we’re seeing it empirically when individuals are utilizing search.”
Requested if AI will eat away among the income of Google Search, Pichai stated, “You don’t give it some thought as a dilemma as a result of it’s important to innovate to remain forward, and you’ll lean within the path of the person. It’s like one of many authentic rules of Google — comply with the person, every little thing else will comply with. I feel the dilemma solely exists in case you deal with it as a dilemma. All alongside in expertise, you’ve got these large durations of innovation and also you lean into it as arduous as you may — it’s the one method to do it. You realize when cellular got here everybody was such as you’re not going to have the actual property, like how will adverts work, all that stuff. (However) cellular was a transition which ended up working nice (for Google),”
