Ramaswamy: Multimodal AI will not significantly impact consumer search beyond image generation
Sridhar Ramaswamy · Google’s Weird Year + Neeva Goes to Snowflake — With Sridhar Ramaswamy · Sep 6, 2023 · at 31:31
Former Google Ads and Search SVP Sridhar Ramaswamy assesses where multimodal AI will and will not drive value.
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“I have a harder time you know, other than for things like image generation, how multimodal is going to make a humongous difference. For something like consumer search.”
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