TECH - Neither Sundar Pichai Nor Sergey Brin—This Ex-Employee Warned Google 5 Years Ago That AI Was Coming For Their Search Engine | Benzinga
Neither Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) co-founder Sergey Brin, nor current CEO Sundar Pichai have directly admitted it, but a former Google engineer warned that the threat from AI was "near inevitable" more than five years ago.
What Happened: Google's fumbles with its Gemini AI chatbot and the subsequent admittance of the mistake by Brin have reinforced concerns that the search giant is feeling threatened by AI chatbots, which include Perplexity AI and OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Earlier, Brin said Gemini's image generation was messed up, and the company did not test it adequately before rolling out the feature to the public. While that shows a lack of quality control at the search giant, it also points to a much larger ...