Google CEO Sundar Pichai has talked about lots of his staff leaving the search large to work for rival firms like ChatGPT maker OpenAI. Pichai additionally talked about Google’s Bard Chatbot, the dangers of AI and the necessity for cost-cutting in Silicon Valley.
Google’s father or mother firm Alphabet had introduced its plan to chop round six p.c of the worldwide workforce or round 12,000 staff owing to stress from buyers to scale back spending because of the financial downturn attributable to the pandemic.
Chatting with Bloomberg in regards to the ex-Google staff becoming a member of rival firms like OpenAI, Pichai stated, “Googlers have left to create over 2,000 startups, final I counted, and I believe that’s nice. A few of them are cloud prospects down the road for us. A few of them come again. I believe it’s wholesome.”
Pichai additionally spoke in regards to the current cost-cutting measures undertaken by many firms in Silicon Valley together with Google, he stated, “Our work towards sharpening our focus—I view it as enduring work. We’re always attempting to make the corporate extra environment friendly.”
The Google CEO additionally admitted that his firm’s generative AI-based chatbot Bard lacks behind the competitors in some areas whereas noting that these are very early days for the know-how. He additionally talked in regards to the competitors within the AI house noting that he has constructed Google to be AI native for a very long time.
Pichai additionally spoke in regards to the dangers posed by the brand new age generative AI-based applied sciences, he stated, “We should always undoubtedly be sure that we’re targeted on dangers of bias or misinformation, security incidents and so forth. There might be severe points with deepfakes. We have to take all of it critically.”
Many outstanding individuals within the synthetic intelligence sector together with Google and OpenAI had referred to as for mitigating the dangers of AI in a current assertion. The letter learn, “Mitigating the chance of extinction from AI must be a world precedence alongside different societal-scale dangers resembling pandemics and nuclear struggle.”
Up to date: 14 Jun 2023, 07:49 AM IST