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Google CEO Warns About The Consequences of AI

AI is and will remain the topic at the moment and the cards are definitely being reshuffled. Because the search engine giant Google is currently under massive pressure. This is mainly because they are lagging behind when it comes to AI. However, CEO Sundar Pichai is still going on the offensive.

In recent years and even decades, Google and Alphabet have been able to sit back and hardly have to fear a competitor. But since the success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and its integration into Microsoft’s Bing search engine, there has been panic in Mountain View. Because Google is late with its chatbot Bard, which has since been published and cannot keep up with the competition in terms of technology either.

Google boss Sundar Pichai nevertheless (or perhaps because of that) hits the AI ​​drum more intensely than almost anyone else and was recently asked about it on the CBS show 60 Minutes (via CNBC). He said that “every product of every company” will be affected by the rapid development of AI. This will have massive consequences for mankind because Pichai also said that they have to prepare for such technologies.

AI will change everything

“We have to adapt as a society,” Pichai said after the interviewer said he was “speechless” and that what happened to Bard was “disturbing”. Pichai: “This will affect every product and every company. For example, if you are a radiologist, in five to ten years you will have an AI collaborator by your side. When you come in the morning and have to go through, say, a hundred things, she might say, ‘These are the most serious cases you need to look at first.'”

This is an example of a helpful application, but AIs also have a downside, according to the Google CEO. Because the extent of the problem of disinformation and fake news as well as manipulated images will be “much bigger” and could probably “cause a lot of damage”.

Society as a whole must deal with dealing with AIs, not just developers, but also social scientists, ethicists, philosophers, and many others. In the end, Pichai was also asked if he had any reservations about unleashing something on humanity that one does not fully understand oneself. His response: “Let me put it this way: I don’t think we fully understand how the human mind works either.”