The Importance of Product Engineering

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When Microsoft relaunched the new Bing with this open AI, what we now know was GPT-4 sort of running under the hood. I think it's a bit ironic that Microsoft can call someone else a 800-pound gorilla given the scale and size of their company. There's an opportunity to more natively bring them into search in a deeper way, which we will. Search is where people come because they trusted to get, you know, information right.

For years, Google was seen as one of the most cutting-edge developers of A.I. But, with OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT, and other chatbots beating Google to market, is that distinction still the case? Google’s chief executive is in an unenviable position: Scramble to catch up or, in the face of potentially harmful technology, move slowly.

Today, Sundar Pichai on Google’s delicate balance between A.I. innovation and safety.

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Sundar Pichai is the chief executive of Google.

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The launch of ChatGPT caused a ‘code red’ inside Google and prompted the release of Google’s Bard.
More than 1,000 technology leaders and researchers signed onto an open letter calling for a pause in the development of A.I.