What is the future of AI? Google and the EU have very different ideas

The race to roll out artificial intelligence is happening as quickly as the race to contain it – as two key moments this week demonstrate. On 10 May, Google announced plans to deploy new large language models, which use machine learning techniques to generate text, across its existing products. "We are reimagining all of our core products, including search," said Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet, at a press conference. The move is widely seen as a response to Microsoft adding similar functionality to its search engine, Bing. A day later, politicians in the European Union agreed on new rules dictating how and when AI can be used.