For more than two decades, Google has been the most popular search engine in the world, but the firm is bringing in the major artillery to help battle the company's most serious challenge since the iPhone's release: ChatGPT. Google says it is investing heavily in artificial intelligence to keep up with the technology's fast expansion. Meanwhile, Google eliminated positions in its AI division as the tech industry experienced significant layoffs. Amy Scott and Matt Levin, the show's guest hosts, get right into it. We'll also play a round of Half Full/Half Empty.
The November 30 release of ChatGPT has raised internal worries about Google's search engine's continuing supremacy. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, reportedly attended talks on the business's artificial intelligence strategy in December, and the company reportedly declared a "code red" as the AI bot quickly gained popularity.
According to The New York Times, this motivated Pichai to reach out to Page and Brin, more than three years after they stepped down from senior positions. Alphabet's cofounders remain on the company's board of directors.
According to the story, Page and Brin met with executives last month for "multiple" sessions to brainstorm about Google's AI and authorized plans to include more chatbot capabilities into its search engine.
According to an unidentified source, Page and Brin had not been intimately involved with the company's operations since 2019, and had only visited the Silicon Valley offices to check in on its "moonshot" initiatives. Former Google senior vice president Vic Gundotra told The Times that the cofounders were always interested in AI. In 2008, Page apparently expressed dissatisfaction with a new Gmail function, stating, "Why can't it automatically write that email for you?"
"We continue to test our AI technology internally to ensure it's useful and safe," an Alphabet spokesman told The Times, "and we look forward to sharing more experiences externally soon."
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