Mr. Pichai is tackling one of the biggest threats to Google’s core business.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced that it will integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into its search engine. wall street journal (WSJ). Google’s decision to integrate AI into its widely used search tool faces competition from OpenAI’s ChatGPT and others.
According to Mr. Pichai, improvements in AI will increase Google’s ability to respond to different types of search queries. However, according to the outlet, Mr Pichai dismissed the idea that chatbots threaten Google’s search business, which generates more than half of its parent Alphabet Inc’s revenue. “The opportunity space, if anything, is bigger than ever,” the CEO said in the interview.
It should be noted that large language models (LLMs) are computer programs that can answer questions that mimic people and Google has been a pioneer in this area. The tech giant will now try to use this technology to improve the user experience on its search engine. Pichai told the WSJ, “Will people be able to ask Google questions in the context of search and connect to the LLM? Absolutely.”
In addition to pressure from investors to cut costs, Mr. Pichai is battling one of the biggest threats to Google’s core business in years as Microsoft recently rolled out its own upgraded version of the Bing search engine that now Chat is powered by GPT.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said after the launch of the company’s new AI-powered search engine that the new developments will “reshape every software category” he knows of, including search, personal computers and earlier advances in cloud computing. Kind.
Mr Pichai told the WSJ that “the consumer enthusiasm around the adoption of these technologies, and some of them even a pleasant surprise” has been “incredible” with regard to Google’s chatbot Bard, which has yet to gain traction. When questioned about why Google had not introduced an AI chatbot earlier, he replied that the business was “iterating to ship something, and maybe the timeline changed, given the moment in the industry.”