Mr Pichai is not alone. New Street Research, a firm of analysts, estimates that Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft will together splurge $104bn on building AI data centres this year. Add in spending by smaller tech firms and other industries and the total AI data-centre binge between 2023 and 2027 could reach $1.4trn. The scale … Read more
“For India and other emerging countries, technology shifts are opportunities to catch up or leap ahead,” Pichai said. India was unlikely to match developed countries in personal computing penetration, but in mobile adoption, more people gained access than in previous generations, Pichai elaborated. Many people skipped landlines and went straight to cellular phones. With each … Read more
Google has announced that its AI chatbot Gemini will be restricted from answering questions about global elections scheduled for this year, citing concerns over potential missteps in the deployment of the technology. This move comes amidst growing worries surrounding misinformation and fake news fueled by advancements in generative AI. Gemini users querying about upcoming elections, … Read more
Google parent Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai is likely to be fired or will resign soon amid the Gemini debacle — as he should, believes Helios Capital founder Samir Arora. Replying to a user on social media site X (formerly Twitter), who asked for Arora’s opinion on the controversies surrounding Google worldwide released AI chatbot Gemini, … Read more
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has addressed the ongoing issues with the company’s AI chatbot Gemini (formerly Bard), describing some of the AI chatbot’s responses as “problematic” and showing bias. Notably, Google had recently paused Gemini’s text-to-image generation capabilities after a social media uproar over some of the images generated by the chatbot. Also Read | … Read more