@Techmeme@techhub.socialMemo: Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls Gemini's problematic responses around race "completely unacceptable" and vows to make structural changes to fix the problem (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/27/2024…
@drahardja@sfba.socialGoogle’s leaked “key goals for 2024” are unfalsifiable bullshit:
“1. Deliver the world's most advanced, safe, and responsible AI.
2. Improve knowledge, learning, creativity, and productivity.
3. Build the most helpful personal computing platforms and devices.
4. Enable organizations and developers to innovate on Google Cloud.
5. Provide the world's most trusted products and platforms.
6. Build a Google that's extraordinary for Googlers and the …
@heiseonline@social.heise.deGoogle-Chef fordert globales KI-Regelwerk
Sundar Pichai hält das in Europa angestrebte Regelwerk für gelungen. Der AI-Act der EU reiche aber nicht aus.
https://www.heise.de/news/Google-Chef-ford
@drahardja@sfba.socialGoogle’s leaked “key goals for 2024” are unfalsifiable bullshit:
“1. Deliver the world's most advanced, safe, and responsible AI.
2. Improve knowledge, learning, creativity, and productivity.
3. Build the most helpful personal computing platforms and devices.
4. Enable organizations and developers to innovate on Google Cloud.
5. Provide the world's most trusted products and platforms.
6. Build a Google that's extraordinary for Googlers and the …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a panel to advise US DHS on deploying AI safely within America's critical infrastructure (Dustin Volz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
@megapenguinx@social.linux.pizzaI’m glad that letter is floating around exposing how Sundar Pichai undid all the work myself and all the other search engineers and scientists put into making Google useful. It has been maddening watching so much of my work get undone in favor of short term money making. He actively made Google search worse for everyone.
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"Yet the world I fear is one where these people are allowed to run rampant, turning unique content into food for an ugly, inbred monster of an internet, one that turns everybody's information sources into semi-personalized versions of the same content. These people have names — Sam Altman of OpenAI, Sundar Pichai of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta (which has its own model called LLaMA), Dario Amodei of Anthropic, and Satya Nadella of Microsoft — and they are responsible for trying t…
@jrconlin@soc.jrconlin.com> The Verge reported that CEO Sundar Pichai defended the layoffs and claimed that workers sometimes reach out to express gratitude for the cuts.
The only way that's possible is if they had another job in their back pocket and got a severance package they're treating as a departure bonus.
And even then, I'm betting it never happened.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialAn interview with Sundar Pichai on the evolving web, training Gemini to be a multimodal AI, future paid and ad-supported generative AI, hallucinations, and more (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-prepares-for-a-future-where-sea…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialSundar Pichai says Google One crossed 100M subscribers, highlighting Google's efforts to move users away from free plans; YouTube Premium recently hit 100M subs (Wes Davis/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/10/2406853
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources say Sundar Pichai is now making day-to-day decisions about adding generative AI to Google products even as some worry about his low-key leadership style (Financial Times)
https://t.co/MMxjNEdqaS
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSundar Pichai says Alphabet's digital subscription services, including YouTube and Google One, are on a $15B annual revenue run rate, up fivefold since 2019 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/youtube-goog…
