Google’s Sundar Pichai Lays Out His AI Roadmap
In this episode of The Circuit with Emily Chang, the Alphabet CEO explains how he’s in it for the long haul—and won’t dance to anyone else’s tune.
Sundar Pichai, right, on The Circuit with Emily Chang
Photographer: David Paul Morris/BloombergAlphabet Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai says artificial intelligence has been a key focus of the Google parent since 2016, back when ChatGPT-maker OpenAI was in its infancy. After all, Google researchers invented the “T” in GPT (as in generative pre-trained transformer). It was a critical innovation that made conversational search using large language models possible.
Somehow though, Google missed the big chatbot moment and has been playing catchup ever since. But Pichai, who sat down for an exclusive interview with The Circuit with Emily Chang, doesn’t seem worried. “We weren’t the first company to do search. We weren’t the first company to do email. We weren’t the first company to build a browser,” he says. “So I view this AI as we are in the earliest possible stages.”