Suleyman: Google avoided launching LaMDA to protect its core search business
Mustafa Suleyman · AI + You: 5 steps for impactful experimentation | Masters of Scale · Oct 11, 2023 · at 35:50
Mustafa Suleyman, former VP of AI product management at Google and co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, discusses why Google held back its early conversational AI model.
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“We tried really hard to get that launched at the time, but there just wasn't the appetite for taking the kind of risk. It was pretty clear to a lot of people at Google That this was potentially going to unseat Google's existing search business. It's super hard for a company to try to compete with itself and upend itself from within.”
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