Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, has announced that two internal entities have merged to form a new business unit dedicated to developing next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) breakthroughs and products. .
The new unit, Google DeepMind, is formed from the merger of Google Research’s Brain team and London-based AI company DeepMind, which Google acquired in 2014. The newly formed business unit aims to accelerate the company’s progress in developing AI in a safe and responsible environment. Method.
Pichai’s goal in bringing Google’s AI talent together into one focused team is to “greatly accelerate the progress of AI.” His scientist, Jeff Dean, chief of Google Research and Google DeepMind, will report directly to Pichai and will be tasked with building a suite of powerful multimodal AI models.
With people like Tesla CEO Elon Musk arguing that AI has the potential to destroy civilization, Pichai made his intentions clear in creating the unit.
“To ensure the bold and responsible development of AI in general, we are creating a unit that will help us build better systems more safely and responsibly.”
Pichai said the resulting development of the unit will be used to power Google products, though specific details remain unclear at the time of writing.
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Meanwhile, a recent survey of 11,004 US citizens revealed significant concerns about AI hijacking in the workplace.
While 56% of respondents believe AI will have a significant impact on the US economy, only 13% believe AI will help more than hurt US workers.
