{"id":157321,"date":"2023-02-08T15:24:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T21:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/ai-first-to-last-how-google-fell-behind-in-the-ai-boom"},"modified":"2023-02-08T15:24:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T21:24:48","slug":"ai-first-to-last-how-google-fell-behind-in-the-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/ai-first-to-last-how-google-fell-behind-in-the-ai-boom","title":{"rendered":"\u2018AI First\u2019 To Last: How Google Fell Behind In The AI Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-first-to-last-how-google-fell-behind-in-the-ai-boom3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Bard, its newly launched \u201cexperimental conversational AI service,\u201d Google is scrambling to ship AI products. But past scandals, botched launches and a talent drain have put it in a surprise position: playing catch-up in a field it helped create.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, a few months after becoming CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai made a sweeping proclamation: Google, whose name had become synonymous with search, would now be an \u201cAI-first\u201d company. Announced at Google\u2019s massive I\/O developer conference, it was his first major order of business after taking the company reins.<\/p>\n<p>What AI-first meant, exactly, was murky, but the stakes were not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Bard, its newly launched \u201cexperimental conversational AI service,\u201d Google is scrambling to ship AI products. But past scandals, botched launches and a talent drain have put it in a surprise position: playing catch-up in a field it helped create. In 2016, a few months after becoming CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai made a sweeping [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}