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Alarmed at the success of Microsoft-owned OpenAI's ChatGPT, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has created a unit that will help the company build more capable AI systems safely and responsibly. News 

Google CEO Sundar Pichai creates the DeepMind project to develop advanced artificial intelligence systems

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Alarmed by the success of Microsoft-owned OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai have created a unit to help the company build more powerful AI systems safely and responsibly. This group, called Google DeepMind, brings together two leading research groups in the field of AI: Google Research’s Brain team and DeepMind. “Their collective achievements in AI over the last decade span AlphaGo, Transformers, word2vec, WaveNet, AlphaFold, sequential sequence models, distillation, deep reinforcement learning, and distributed systems and software frameworks such as TensorFlow and JAX for large-scale detection, training, and…

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He believes that AI is the most profound technology humanity is currently working on as it gets to the essence of what intelligence is and what humanity is News 

Google CEO Sundar Pichai warns that artificial intelligence is deeper than fire or electricity

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Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has stated that artificial intelligence (AI) will be as important to human history as fire or electricity. He believes that AI is the most profound technology that humanity is currently working on when it comes to understanding the essence of intelligence and humanity. In a recent interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes, Pichai stated that it was important to make sure AI models don’t just train with engineers. “I’ve always thought of A.I. as the most profound technology that humanity is working on — more…

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Pichai and Co. are working steadfastly to enter the AI race which has seen Microsoft become a clear winner so far. News 

The head of Google confirms that AI-centric features will find users

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Google is bringing AI-centric features to search for all users and it will make the search engine more efficient, as Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently claimed in an interview with the WSJ. Falling behind Microsoft in the AI chatbot race, Google has partnered with OpenAI to use ChatGPT’s advanced capabilities. Google announced the Bard AI chatbot earlier, but initial feedback has raised more concerns than positives. Pichai confirms that it wants to integrate AI into the search engine, but the timeline for the launch of support is unclear, and Pichai…

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Bard AI chatbot was introduced to the public earlier this month, but Pichai says there is more to come. News 

Google Chief Pichai confirms that the new Bard AI Chatbot update is more powerful

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Google has been lagging behind ChatGPT in the AI chatbot race with Bard, but Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google admitted that the AI chatbot runs on a lighter version of LaMDA and will soon be upgraded to more powerful PaLM models. Pichai quoted this in a New York Times podcast, where he also assured that the new version of Bard will get more features and help better answer math problems. Pichai mentioned that the changes will be visible next week. He gave a cheeky example comparing the Bard to a boiled…

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CEO Sundar Pichai justified the company's new desk-sharing policy, describing some of the company’s offices as practically empty and reminding staffers that real estate is pricey. News 

Why Google CEO Sundar Pichai says some employees have to share a desk and an office

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After laying off 12,000 employees globally in January 2023, Google has reportedly asked some of its employees to share desks with a few colleagues due to financial concerns. According to an exclusive report by CNBC, CEO Sundar Pichai justified the company’s new desk-sharing policy by describing some of the company’s offices as practically empty and reminding employees of the high cost of real estate. “It’s clear to me that they’re trying to be efficient and save money, but at the same time also make use of resources. Otherwise, there are…

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Employees took to the popular internal forum Memegen to express their thoughts on the Bard announcement. Some staffers are calling it “rushed,” “botched” and “un-Googley”. News 

Google CEO Sundar Pichai criticized for “hurried” announcement of Chat GPT Rival Bard

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Google employees are reportedly criticizing leadership, particularly CEO Sundar Pichai, over the way the company handled this week’s announcement of its ChatGPT competitor called Bard, a new report says. According to CNBC, those employees took to the popular internal forum Memegen to express their thoughts on Bard’s announcement. Some employees call it “rushed”, “broken” and “un-Google”. “Dear Sundar, Bard’s launch and layoffs were rushed, messy and myopic,” read one meme, which included a serious photo of Pichai. “Get back to the long-term view.” The message received a lot of support…

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