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0:15:08 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Sundar Pichai
Their wordsMany years ago, I think it might've been 2017 or 2018, I said at the time, AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever work on. It'll be more profound than fire or electricity. So, I have to back myself. I still think that's the case.
0:21:41 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Sundar Pichai
Their wordsWhen the internet created blogs, you heard from so many more people. But with AI, I think that number won't be in the few hundreds of thousands. It'll be tens of millions of people, maybe even a billion people putting out things into the world in a deeper way.
0:24:05 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Lex Fridman
Their wordsI think the element of podcasting or audio books that is about information gathering, that part might be removed, or that might be more efficiently and in a compelling way done by AI. But then it’ll be just nice to hear humans struggle with the information, contend with the information, try to internalize it
0:25:04 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Sundar Pichai
Their wordsThere is no doubt in me that we will enable more filmmakers than have ever been. You're going to empower a lot more people. So I think there is an expansionary aspect of this, which is underestimated, I think.
0:29:20 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Sundar Pichai
Their wordsBut I do think when it comes to artistic free expression, I think that's one of those values we should work hard to defend.
0:36:24 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Sundar Pichai
Their wordsSo I do think scaling laws are working, but it's tough to get, at any given time, the models we all use the most, this maybe a few months behind the maximum capability we can deliver because that won't be the fastest, easiest to use, et cetera.
0:38:41 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Sundar Pichai
Their wordsI feel like we are in the AJI phase where dramatic progress, some things don't work well, but overall you're seeing lots of progress.
0:39:54 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Sundar Pichai
Their wordsI almost feel the term doesn't matter, what I know is by 2030 there'll be such dramatic progress. We'll be dealing with the consequences of that progress, both the positive externalities and the negative externalities that come with it in a big way by 2030. So that I strongly feel.
0:43:02 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Sundar Pichai
Their wordsToday, we are constraining the models, the models can't quite express themselves in terms of the UI to people. But if you think about it, we've kind of boxed them in that way, but given these models can code, they should be able to write the best interfaces to express their ideas over time.
0:44:34 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Lex Fridman
Their wordsI would say my p(doom) is about 10%.
0:46:39 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Lex Fridman
Their wordsthe other thing I think people don’t often talk about is probability of doom without AI. So there’s all these other ways that humans can destroy themselves and it’s very possible, at least I believe so, that AI will help us become smarter, kinder to each other, more efficient.
0:48:54 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Lex Fridman
Their wordsI sometimes also struggle explaining to people, articulating, why I believe meeting in person for world leaders is powerful. It just seems naive to say that, but there is something there in person
0:50:17 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Lex Fridman
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A meeting that wastes everyone's time is a meetings problem, not a communication problem.
Their wordsI personally hate meetings because a significant percent of meetings when done poorly don’t serve a clear purpose. But that’s a meeting problem, that’s not a communication problem.
1:03:02 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Sundar Pichai
Their wordsYou can have AI give a lot of context, but one of our important design goals though, is when you come to Google Search, you are going to get a lot of context, but you're going to go and find a lot of things out on the web. So that will be true in AI mode, in AI overviews, and so on.
1:11:37 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Sundar Pichai
Their wordsLook, I think news and journalism will play an important role in the future. We are pretty committed to it, right? So I think making sure that ecosystem, in fact, I think we'll be able to differentiate ourselves as a company over time because of our commitment there.
1:20:00 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Sundar Pichai
Their wordsNumber three, even if you end up quite not accomplishing what you set out to do and you end up doing 60, 80% of it, it'll end up being a terrific success. So that's the advice I would give people, right? I think it's just aiming for big ideas, has all these advantages
1:31:16 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Sundar Pichai
Their wordsBut the most important metric, and we carefully measure it is, like, how much has our engineering velocity increased as a company due to AI, right? It's tough measure, and we rigorously try to measure it, and our estimates are that number is now at 10%, right?
1:34:08 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Sundar Pichai
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The next big wave of AI-assisted engineering unlocks when agentic capabilities become robust.
Their wordsThe big unlock will be as we make the agentic capabilities much more robust, right? I think that's what unlocks that next big wave.
1:37:06 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Sundar Pichai
Their wordsI do. If you have a passion for computer science, I would. Computer science is obviously a lot more than programming alone, so I would. I still don't think I would change what you pursue. I think AI will horizontally allow impact every field.
1:38:09 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Sundar Pichai
Their wordsThe best innovations in computing have come through a paradigm IO change, right? When with GUI, and then with a graphical user interface, and then with multi-touch in the context of mobile voice later on. Similarly, I feel like AR is that next paradigm.
1:50:04 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Sundar Pichai
Their wordsI always ask myself the question, would you have been born now or any other time in the past? I most often, not most often, almost always would rather be born now.