TechCheck+ Google vs Google: The internal struggle holding back its AI 3/1/24

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Instead of a comeback, Google’s Gemini AI chatbot and image generator have gone viral for all the wrong reasons – producing inaccurate and offensive responses. The missteps have put Google back on the defensive in the AI race. But the bigger question around Gemini’s roll out is whether it underscores a painful but new corporate reality for Alphabet and CEO Sundar Pichai. Is Google’s culture sabotaging its AI efforts? We discuss both sides after a week where other mega-caps are making strides in AI: Apple’s Tim Cook talks AI strategy; Meta reportedly planning to launch Llama 3; Microsoft announces an investment in Mistral; and Nvidia’s market cap touches $2 trillion.

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0:00.0	An AI chatbot gone viral.
0:02.0	Google's Bard is now Gemini.
0:04.0	They search a giant renaming the chatbot.
0:06.0	For all the wrong reasons.
0:08.0	More controversy is around its AI model Gemini now.
0:10.0	Politics, race, wokeness.
0:12.0	This has caused a lot of consternation, a lot of commotion.
0:16.8	A 90 billion dollars sell-off.
0:18.8	shares a parent company alphabet sinking over 4% today as it struggles to get its footing in the AI
0:24.1	race and even calls for a head to roll. Some are calling for a change in
0:28.9	leadership. It's unforgivable and some heads to roll on it. This is not how Google's moment of redemption was supposed to play out.
0:35.6	And now some are wondering whether this is indicative of a new and worsened Google.
0:41.0	This week on Tech Check, how Google's culture is sabotaging its AI.
0:45.0	In 2022, when ChatGPT broke into the mainstream and finally captured the public's imagination for what
0:54.8	AI could be. The chat gp-gp-t phenomenon. Everyone's been talking about the chat gp-gp-t.
1:00.4	Google was nowhere to be found. Investors wondered where was the company that had told the world that it would own
1:06.0	artificial intelligence years ago?
1:08.0	We focused on driving the shift and applying AI to solving problems.
1:12.0	Where was the company that made that four-year? shift in applying AI to solving problems.
1:12.6	Where was the company that made that $400 million bet on AI startup, Deep Mind?
1:18.0	We are embarking on what will turn out to be the greatest adventure in human scientific history.
1:24.0	For the first time, the company that was at the forefront of so many innovations
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