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Sundar Pichai explained that the pace of AI progress feels staggering yet uneven. He compared it to Waymo’s impressive advances but reminded us a child can learn to drive in 20 hours. He concluded that AI is both amazing and still far from being truly generalized technology.

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Sundar Pichai emphasized that AI is unique because it can recursively self-improve. He said AI is the first technology that accelerates the creation of new technologies. He believes this places AI in a different league from every previous invention. He concluded that its impact will surpass all prior breakthroughs, though it comes with serious challenges.

Sundar Pichai emphasized that AI is unique because it can recursively self-improve. He said AI is the first technology that accelerates the creation of new technologies. He believes this places AI in a different league from every previous invention. He concluded that its impact will surpass all prior breakthroughs, though it comes with serious challenges.

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Sundar Pichai reaffirms his belief that AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever create—surpassing even fire, electricity, or the internet. He reflects on whether that view could be influenced by recency bias but ultimately argues that AI’s speed, scope, and potential set it apart from anything in history. What makes AI truly different, Pichai says, is its ability to improve itself and accelerate the act of creation. Unlike past technologies that enhanced human effort, AI can independently generate ideas, build solutions, and evolve. This recursive, compounding effect may place it in a league of its own, making it, in the long run, the greatest productivity multiplier ever.

Sundar Pichai reaffirms his belief that AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever create—surpassing even fire, electricity, or the internet. He reflects on whether that view could be influenced by recency bias but ultimately argues that AI’s speed, scope, and potential set it apart from anything in history. What makes AI truly different, Pichai says, is its ability to improve itself and accelerate the act of creation. Unlike past technologies that enhanced human effort, AI can independently generate ideas, build solutions, and evolve. This recursive, compounding effect may place it in a league of its own, making it, in the long run, the greatest productivity multiplier ever.

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Australia needs to take advantage of AI before it takes advantage of us. This is quite the show. The progress in AI technology as demonstrated by these robots is both impressive and scary. Impressive as to how far AI technology has come, and scary in the sense of the potential job losses AI will bring. Australia really needs to get up to speed when it comes to manufacturing and technology skills. The sooner we up skill our workforce to ensure we are not beholden to foreign controlled AI the better.

Australia needs to take advantage of AI before it takes advantage of us. This is quite the show. The progress in AI technology as demonstrated by these robots is both impressive and scary. Impressive as to how far AI technology has come, and scary in the sense of the potential job losses AI will bring. Australia really needs to get up to speed when it comes to manufacturing and technology skills. The sooner we up skill our workforce to ensure we are not beholden to foreign controlled AI the better.

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Sundar Pichai says, Elon Musk is right to fear an AGI dictatorship that no single company should control AI technology The current ecosystem has multiple frontier labs and open-source from China If the world relied on one company's AI, that would be a real issue — but we're nowhere near that

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Follow us KABClub to learn more about young entrepreneurs. #GDI #SDGs #Youth2030 Nursultan Bakashov, co-founder of AkylAI (a startup based in Kyrgyzstan that is developing a Kyrgyz-speaking AI assistant), believes that we should not only learn about AI but also befriend it. He argues that AI itself is neither good nor bad—the key lies in whether humans can utilize it effectively to facilitate personal growth and improve work efficiency. He maintains that the younger generation needs to understand AI and learn how to harness it more effectively, emphasizing that young people should cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset when engaging with AI.

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Sundar Pichai says Google's Antigravity built a working OS from scratch overnight. Then he named what comes next, the one thing he says no company should decide on alone: "You can see in Antigravity today... in over 12 hours, it can build a simple OS from scratch." "Genuinely those are multiple thousands of hours for somebody to do." "We are all in our products in some version or the other, have agents and subagents and the orchestration of those agents building things together. It's a continuum." "In the way people describe RSI, I don't think we are there yet... that would represent the next level of acceleration." "It shouldn't be an internal conversation at that point. I think it has to be a much broader conversation than that." "We all have to avoid race conditions at those stages of AGI." Twelve hours of machine time replaced what Pichai puts at thousands of hours of human engineering. The ramp is real. The step after it, models improving themselves, is one he thinks should not be decided inside a single company. Except right now it can only be decided inside a single company. No lab has to notify anyone before crossing that line. No outside test exists for it. The rest of us would find out afterward. Pichai is asking for a broader conversation that has no room to happen in yet. - Sundar Pichai (Sundar Pichai), CEO of Google and Alphabet, on Hard Fork with Casey Newton (Casey Newton) and Kevin Roose (Kevin Roose).

Sundar Pichai says Google's Antigravity built a working OS from scratch overnight. Then he named what comes next, the one thing he says no company should decide on alone: "You can see in Antigravity today... in over 12 hours, it can build a simple OS from scratch." "Genuinely those are multiple thousands of hours for somebody to do." "We are all in our products in some version or the other, have agents and subagents and the orchestration of those agents building things together. It's a continuum." "In the way people describe RSI, I don't think we are there yet... that would represent the next level of acceleration." "It shouldn't be an internal conversation at that point. I think it has to be a much broader conversation than that." "We all have to avoid race conditions at those stages of AGI." Twelve hours of machine time replaced what Pichai puts at thousands of hours of human engineering. The ramp is real. The step after it, models improving themselves, is one he thinks should not be decided inside a single company. Except right now it can only be decided inside a single company. No lab has to notify anyone before crossing that line. No outside test exists for it. The rest of us would find out afterward. Pichai is asking for a broader conversation that has no room to happen in yet. - Sundar Pichai (Sundar Pichai), CEO of Google and Alphabet, on Hard Fork with Casey Newton (Casey Newton) and Kevin Roose (Kevin Roose).

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SAG-AFTRA president Sean Astin told Jo Ling Kent that he is “tried of being overwhelmed” and feeling out of control when it comes to how AI technology could be used in Hollywood. Astin said the use of AI in Hollywood feels like a tsunami — but he added that he wants to put his union, which represents around 160,000 performers in the U.S., in the best position possible, when it negotiates a new contract next year.

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someone trained an AI for +2,000 hours using RL to see if it can beat human world record in Trackmania. the interesting part was that he still had to take inspiration from the top player techniques, then FORCE the AI to learn them. finally, AI was able to beat the top player by 0.01 seconds.

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., Co-founder of fal, on where AI image & video generation stands today: “Image and video models haven’t really generalized yet. There’s still a lot of model chaining and workflow generation." "Models are getting bigger and better, but unlike LLMs where you can write a prompt and expect it to handle various tasks, that doesn’t happen for media yet.” He notes that while chaining multiple models is still the norm, the opportunity lies in building hybrid systems that stitch workflows together reliably until true generalization arrives.

., Co-founder of fal, on where AI image & video generation stands today: “Image and video models haven’t really generalized yet. There’s still a lot of model chaining and workflow generation." "Models are getting bigger and better, but unlike LLMs where you can write a prompt and expect it to handle various tasks, that doesn’t happen for media yet.” He notes that while chaining multiple models is still the norm, the opportunity lies in building hybrid systems that stitch workflows together reliably until true generalization arrives.

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Johnny Depp in Black Mass (2015) is one of those performances that reminded everyone he could still disappear completely into a role when he wanted to. The movie itself is uneven, but every time Whitey walks into a room the atmosphere instantly gets tense.

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Sundar Pichai acknowledges that right now, AI appears to benefit tech giants and wealthy startups with access to expensive infrastructure. This early concentration of power raises real concerns about whether AI will become another winner-take-all industry. Despite the current landscape, Pichai remains confident that new, dominant AI companies will emerge—just as Google did years after the internet began. He believes the future will be shaped by companies we haven't heard of yet, suggesting there's still room for transformative innovation beyond today’s leaders.

Sundar Pichai acknowledges that right now, AI appears to benefit tech giants and wealthy startups with access to expensive infrastructure. This early concentration of power raises real concerns about whether AI will become another winner-take-all industry. Despite the current landscape, Pichai remains confident that new, dominant AI companies will emerge—just as Google did years after the internet began. He believes the future will be shaped by companies we haven't heard of yet, suggesting there's still room for transformative innovation beyond today’s leaders.

Wes Roth

30,757 views • 1 year ago