{"id":188008,"date":"2024-04-24T08:25:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/sundar-pichai-admits-the-generative-ai-boom-took-google-by-surprise"},"modified":"2024-04-24T08:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:25:22","slug":"sundar-pichai-admits-the-generative-ai-boom-took-google-by-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/sundar-pichai-admits-the-generative-ai-boom-took-google-by-surprise","title":{"rendered":"Sundar Pichai admits the generative AI boom took Google by surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sundar-pichai-admits-the-generative-ai-boom-took-google-by-surprise.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/google-losing-cool-factor-popularity-silicon-valley-comeback-2024-2\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"\">Google<\/a> CEO Sundar Pichai has admitted that the generative AI boom caught Google by surprise.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y7Il8I9Hb7s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>During an event <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y7Il8I9Hb7s\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\" nofollow\">at Stanford University earlier this month<\/a>, the tech boss said his company was \u201csurprised\u201d by the sudden public interest in AI.<\/p>\n<p>Despite saying he recognized the tech\u2019s significance years ago, he admitted he had a \u201cdifferent sense of the trajectory in mind\u201d when it came to society\u2019s adoption of AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google CEO Sundar Pichai has admitted that the generative AI boom caught Google by surprise. During an event at Stanford University earlier this month, the tech boss said his company was \u201csurprised\u201d by the sudden public interest in AI. Despite saying he recognized the tech\u2019s significance years ago, he admitted he had a \u201cdifferent sense [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188008","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}