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Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Belief in AI’s Transformational Potential and Positive Outlook for the Future

A world with even more lawyers thanks to AI? Pichai says yes.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Belief in AI’s Transformational Potential and Positive Outlook for the Future
Pedro Domínguez

Pedro Domínguez

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Artificial intelligences are the great revolution of the decade, and the big technology companies are well aware of it. After the popularity of OpenAI‘s ChatGPT took off, companies such as Microsoft, Meta and the almighty Google have jumped on the bandwagon and developed their own AIs.

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This week, at the Google I/O 2023 Keynote, the tech giant announced several hardware products that have already gone on sale or will be released in the future, such as the Pixel 7A smartphone, which is already on the market for $499, and the highly anticipated Pixel Fold, which can be pre-ordered in some regions for $1,800.

In addition, Google also announced several software products related to the AI world, such as PaLM 2, Google’s new language model; the public release of Google Bard, until now accessible through a waiting list; AI integrations in Google Workspace; and new features for Google search that make use of AI.

Google is focusing much of its efforts on AI, and its CEO, Sundar Pichai, has been optimistic about what this type of technology means for the future, which will end up greatly affecting the world of work.

“I think it will affect everything we do,” Pichai said of artificial intelligence in an interview with The Verge‘s Nilay Patel. “I do think there will be major disruptions in society’s labor market.” But Google’s top man believes AI could also improve (if done right) some jobs

In the interview, he cited the example of law, a sector that could undergo major changes due to the advancement of AI. Pichai stated that even with all the technological development that this technology will undergo, the need for some skills and services will not be completely eliminated.

“So artificial intelligence will improve the profession in certain aspects, it may have some unintended consequences, but I’m willing to almost bet that 10 years from now maybe there will be more lawyers,” he stated.

Furthermore, the Google CEO asserts that a “platform shift” of artificial intelligence is occurring, and compares today’s labor concerns to those that accompanied the emergence of personal computers, the Internet and cell phones.

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“Twenty years ago, when predicting exactly what technology automation would do, there were very specific pronouncements about entire job categories disappearing. That hasn’t quite come to pass,” Pichai said.

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Pedro Domínguez

Pedro Domínguez

Publicist and audiovisual producer in love with social networks. I spend more time thinking about which videogames I will play than playing them.

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