“I was always thinking about AI [artificial intelligence] As the most profound technology that humanity is working on. It’s deeper than fire or electricity or anything we’ve done in the past,” said Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet.
Pichai, 51, told 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Perry about robots that have acquired skills through machine learning and Project Starline, an AI video conferencing experience Google is developing for people to use. and others provided valuable access to the inner workings of Google’s AI development. Even if you are in different places, you will feel like you are together.
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Perhaps Google’s most anticipated and notable foray into AI is chatbots. bard. The company now calls it an experiment, but it’s also for more internal testing. Byrd made a particular mistake when Google debuted the program in February. When Bard was first released, it didn’t look for answers on the Internet, instead relying on a self-contained, mostly self-taught program. Last month, Google released an advanced version of Bard that lets you create software to connect to the Internet. Google says it’s working on more sophisticated AI models.
“[AI] It gets to the heart of what intelligence is and what it is to be human,” Pichai told Perry.
In the video below, Perry asked Pichai how Bard would affect Google Search, the company’s most profitable division, which performs 90% of Internet queries.
When Google filed for its initial public offering in 2004, the founders said the company’s guiding principle, “Don’t be evil,” ensured that it would do good to the world, even if it meant sacrificing short-term profits. I wrote that it was meant to be done. . This phrase remains in Google’s Code of Conduct.
In April, Pichai told 60 Minutes that it was his fault for not releasing an advanced model of Bard to allow society to get used to the technology and the company to develop additional layers of safety.
What Pichai said in 60 Minutes keeps us awake at night is how Google’s AI technology is deployed in toxic ways.
Google’s chatbot Bard has built-in safety filters to combat the threat of malicious users. Pichai said the company needs to continuously update the system’s algorithms to combat and detect disinformation campaigns. deepfakea computer-generated image that looks real.
As Pichai said in an interview with 60 Minutes, consumer AI technology is still in its early stages. He believes now is the right time for the government to get involved.
“We need regulation, we will need law … There must be consequences for creating deepfake videos that harm society,” Pichai said. “For a while he will be noticed by anyone who has used AI…[s] This is so different and so profound that it will require social regulation to figure out how to accommodate. “
Adaptation by technology, Pichai believes, is already happening all around us and will make “everything we’ve seen before” more possible.
Soon it will be up to society to decide how it will be used, and whether it will adhere to Alphabet’s code of conduct and “do the right thing.”
Scott Pelley’s two-part report can be found on Google below.
The opening video was originally published on April 16, 2023 and was produced by Keith Zubrow and edited by Sarah Shafer Prediger.
