Google’s A.I. Bonanza + Driverless Car Talk With Cruise C.E.O. Kyle Vogt

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The New York Times

Technology

4.3 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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At its biggest event of the year, Google announced an avalanche of A.I. product releases: A.I. in search, A.I. that writes emails and A.I. that generates slides. Is Google pulling ahead in the A.I. arms race? And, after years of hype, self-driving cars are finally hitting the streets of American cities. Kevin and Casey take a ride through San Francisco in Banana Slug — an autonomous vehicle from the self-driving car company Cruise. After their ride, they sit down with Cruise’s chief executive, Kyle Vogt, to discuss the role he thinks self-driving cars will play in the future of transportation.

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0:00.0	Our Uber is gonna get here in four minutes.
0:03.0	Perfect.
0:04.0	And that will be my second Uber of the day.
0:06.8	Did you Uber hear from your house?
0:08.0	To the place where I catch the self-driving car, yes.
0:12.1	Do you wanna share our ride and save $3?
0:14.2	I personally don't.
0:15.4	Can you imagine you're trying to get to work
0:17.5	and two guys get in your car
0:19.2	and they're like, we're making a podcast.
0:22.4	You would jump out of that car so fast
0:25.1	and you'd probably sue Uber.
0:26.4	Yeah, that's like the cursed version of cash cab.
0:29.6	I thought I was saving $3, but I actually, you're in the cash cab.
0:39.9	The cash cab.
0:40.9	You're in cash cab.
0:42.9	Oh, God.
0:43.9	Someone is pitching that to Netflix.
0:45.9	Yeah, it's happening.
0:46.9	It's happening.
0:52.0	I'm Kevin Ruse.
0:52.9	I'm a tech college at The New York Times.
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