Sundar Pichai
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It's tough to describe, but you feel it when you see it.
Yeah.
It's a great question. Look, many years ago, I think it might have been 2017 or 2018, I said at the time, AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever work on. It'll be more profound than fire or electricity. So I have to back myself. I still think that's the case. When you asked this question, I was thinking, well, do we have a recency bias, right?
It's a great question. Look, many years ago, I think it might have been 2017 or 2018, I said at the time, AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever work on. It'll be more profound than fire or electricity. So I have to back myself. I still think that's the case. When you asked this question, I was thinking, well, do we have a recency bias, right?
It's a great question. Look, many years ago, I think it might have been 2017 or 2018, I said at the time, AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever work on. It'll be more profound than fire or electricity. So I have to back myself. I still think that's the case. When you asked this question, I was thinking, well, do we have a recency bias, right?
It's a great question.
Look, many years ago, I think it might have been 2017 or 2018, I said at the time, AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever work on.
It'll be more profound than fire or electricity.
So I have to back myself.
I still think that's the case.
You know, when you asked this question, I was thinking, well, do we have a recency bias, right?
You know, like in sports, it's very tempting to call the current person you're seeing the greatest player, right?
Like in sports, it's very tempting to call the current person you're seeing the greatest player, right? And so is there a recency bias? And You know, I do think from first principles, I would argue AI will be bigger than all of those. I didn't live through those moments.
Like in sports, it's very tempting to call the current person you're seeing the greatest player, right? And so is there a recency bias? And You know, I do think from first principles, I would argue AI will be bigger than all of those. I didn't live through those moments.
Like in sports, it's very tempting to call the current person you're seeing the greatest player, right? And so is there a recency bias? And You know, I do think from first principles, I would argue AI will be bigger than all of those. I didn't live through those moments.
And so is there a recency bias?
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You know, I do think from first principles, I would argue AI will be bigger than all of those.
I didn't live through those moments.
You know, two years ago, I had to go through a surgery, and then I processed that there was a point in time people didn't have anesthesia when they went through these procedures. At that moment, I was like, that has got to be the greatest invention humanity has ever done, right? So, look, we don't know what it is to have lived through those times.