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Decoder with Nilay Patel

Exclusive: Google’s Sundar Pichai talks Search, AI, and dancing with Microsoft

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.33.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Hello and welcome to Decoder. I’m Nilay Patel, editor in chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas, and other problems. We have a special episode today – I’m talking to Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and Alphabet. We hung out the day after Google IO, the company’s big developer conference, where Sundar introduced new generative AI features in virtually all of the company’s products. It’s an important moment for Google, which invented a lot of the core technology behind the current AI moment – the company is quick to point out the T in chatGPT stands for Transformer, the large language model tech first which was invented at Google. But openAI and others have been first to market with generative AI products — and openAI in particular has partnered with Microsoft on a new version of Bing that feels like the first real competitor to Google search in a long time. So I wanted to know what Sundar thinks of this moment – and in particular, what he thinks of the future of search, which is the heart of Google’s business. Web search right now can be pretty hit or miss, right? There’s a lot of weird content farms out there, and AI-based search might be able to just answer questions in a more natural way. But that means remaking the web, and really, remaking Google. Sundar is already going down that path – he just reorganized Google and Alphabet’s AI teams, moving a company called DeepMind inside Google and merging it with the Google Brain AI group to form a new unit called Google DeepMind. I can’t resist an org chart question, so we talked about why he made that call – and how he made it. We also talked about Sundar’s vision for Google – where he wants it to go, and what’s driving his ambition to take the company into the future. This is a jam-packed episode – we talked about a lot, and I didn’t even get to Google’s AI metadata plans, or what’s going on with RCS and Android. Maybe next time. Links: The nine biggest announcements from Google I/O 2023 What happens when Google Search doesn't have the answers? Microsoft thinks AI can beat Google at search — CEO Satya Nadella explains why Let’s chat about RCS - The Verge Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23484772 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.0

Hello and welcome to Decoder. I'm Neil Appetel, editor and chief of the virgin. Decoder is my show about big ideas and other problems.

1:10.0

We have a very special episode today. I'm talking to Sundar Pachai, the CEO of Google and Alphabet.

1:16.0

We spoke the day after Google I.O. the company's big developer conference where Sundar introduced new generative AI features in virtually all of the company's products.

1:25.0

It's an important moment for Google, which invented a lot of the core technology behind the current AI moment.

1:31.0

Company is very quick to point out that the T in chat GPT stands for Transformer, the large language model technology first invented at Google.

1:40.0

But OpenAI and others have been first to market with generative AI products.

1:45.0

And OpenAI in particular has partnered with Microsoft on a new version of Bing that feels like the first real competitor to Google search in a long time.

1:54.0

So I wanted to know what Sundar thinks of this moment. And in particular what he thinks about the future of search, which is the heart of Google's business.

2:02.0

Web search right now can be pretty hit or miss. There's a lot of weird content forms out there and AI based search might be able to just answer questions in a more natural way.

2:12.0

But that means remaking the web and really remaking Google.

2:16.0

And Sundar is already going down the path of remaking Google. He just reorganized Google and Alphabet's AI teams, moving a company called DeepMind inside Google and merging it with the Google Brain AI group to form a new unit called Google DeepMind.

2:31.0

You know, I can't resist an org chart question. So we talked about why he made that decision and how he made it.

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