Apple's Siri AI will be powered by Gemini Neither company has responded to Engadget's request for comment. The two (frequently virtue-signaling) companies have inexplicably allowed Grok and X to remain in their app stores -- even as Musk's chatbot reportedly continues to produce the material. On Wednesday, a coalition of women's and progressive advocacy groups called on Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai to uphold their own rules and remove the apps. The open letters to Apple and Google were signed by 28 groups. Among them are the women's advocacy group Ultraviolet, the parents' group ParentsTogether Action and the National Organization for Women.

Don't blindly trust what AI tells you, says Google's Sundar Pichai People should not blindly trust everything AI tools tell them, the boss of Google's parent company Alphabet told the BBC. In an exclusive interview, chief executive Sundar Pichai said that AI models are prone to errors and urged people to use them alongside other tools. Mr Pichai said it highlighted the importance of having a rich information ecosystem, rather than solely relying on AI technology. This is why people also use Google search, and we have other products that are more grounded in providing accurate information. While AI tools were helpful if you want to creatively write something, Mr Pichai said people have to learn to use these tools for what they're good at, and not blindly trust everything they say.

Aravind Srinivas credits Google CEO Sundar Pichai for giving him the freedom to eat eggs. Srinivas remembers the moment seven years ago when an interview with Pichai popped up in his YouTube feed. His vegetarian upbringing in India had excluded eggs, as it had for many in the country, but now, in his early twenties, Srinivas wanted to start eating more protein. Here was Pichai, a hero to many aspiring entrepreneurs in India, casually describing his morning: waking up, reading newspapers, drinking tea--and eating an omelet. Srinivas shared the video with his mother.

Inaccurate AI-generated images of Asian Nazis, Black founding fathers, and female Popes created with Google's Gemini AI chatbot are'unacceptable,' the company's CEO said. Google CEO Sundar Pichai responded to the images in a memo to staff calling the photos'problematic' and telling staff the company is working'around the clock' to fix the issues. Google's Gemini AI chatbot generated historically inaccurate images of Black founding fathers Google CEO Sundar Pichai apologized for the'problematic' images depicting Black Nazis and other'woke images' 'No Al is perfect, especially at this emerging stage of the industry's development, but we know the bar is high for us and we will keep at it for however long it takes. 'And we'll review what happened and make sure we fix it at scale,' Pichai said. Sundar Pichai said the company is taking steps to ensure the Gemini AI chatbot doesn't generate these images again Google temporarily disabled Gemini's image generation tool last week after users complained it was generating'woke' but incorrect images such as female Popes Google came under fire last week for its AI chatbot posting woke and historically inaccurate images, and critics accused the company of anti-white bias, claiming the company was overcompensating for for longstanding racial bias issues.

Alphabet stock slid more than 5% in after-hours trading Tuesday despite narrowly beating overall revenue predictions for quarter four of 2023 after the tech giant fell short in its key advertising sector. The Google parent company reported a miss on predicted advertising revenue at 65.52bn compared to 65.8bn, but beat predictions for overall revenue at 86.31bn compared to 85.36bn – up 13% year over year. Referencing the overall revenue beat, Alphabet chief financial officer called the results "very strong". "We remain committed to our work to durably re-engineer our cost base as we invest to support our growth opportunities," she said. The lukewarm response to the report comes after the Google parent company laid off 1,000 employees in January, according to the Alphabet Workers Union.

Pichai, who previously oversaw Chrome and Android, is famously product obsessed. In his first founder's letter as CEO in 2016, he predicted that "[w]e will move from mobile first to an AI first world." In the years since, Pichai has infused AI deeply into all of Google's products, from Android devices all the way up to the cloud. Despite that, the last year has largely been defined by the AI releases from another company, OpenAI. The rollout of DALL-E and GPT-3.5 last year, followed by GPT-4 this year, dominated the sector and kicked off an arms race between startups and tech giants alike.

Earlier this month, Sundar Pichai was struggling to write a letter to Alphabet's 180,000 employees. The 51-year-old CEO wanted to laud Google on its 25th birthday, which could have been easy enough. Alphabet's stock market value was around $1.7 trillion. Its vast cloud-computing operation had turned its first profit. Its self-driving cars were ferrying people around San Francisco. And then there was the usual stuff--Google Search still dominated the field, as it had for every minute of this century.

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.

Sundar Pichai told '60 Minutes' that the state of the technology is still somewhat of a black box to researchers. Researchers are accusing Google and CBS News of overestimating the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) following an interview between the Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and "60 Minutes." During the recent interview, Pichai claimed that AI programs developed by Google had displayed "emergent properties," or the ability to learn unexpected skills they were not trained on, puzzling researchers. For example, Google tech executive James Manyika claimed the company's AI had learned the language of Bengali without significant implementation of the information beforehand. "We discovered that with very few amounts of prompting in Bengali," Manyika said, "it can now translate all of Bengali."

Sundar Pichai told '60 Minutes' that the state of the technology is still somewhat of a black box to researchers. Google CEO Sundar Pichai warned society may not be ready for the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), and that neither he nor other experts fully understand how generative AI models like ChatGPT actually work. AI models like ChatGPT and Google's Bard are capable of near-human like conversation, writing text, code, even poems and song lyrics in response to user queries. But the chatbots are also known to get things wrong, often referred to as "hallucinations." Pichai said experts in the field have "some ideas" as to why chatbots make the statements they do, including hallucinations, but compared it to a "black box."