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CEO Sundar Pichai tells what is important for AI chatbots to be successful amid Google Gemini criticisms
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CEO Sundar Pichai tells what is important for AI chatbots to be successful amid Google Gemini criticisms

[ad_1]  In a recent address at the 2024 Business, Government & Society Forum, Google CEO Sundar Pichai delved into the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the tech giant's products. Specifically, he addressed the critique Google faced regarding the responses of its Gemini AI chatbot. Pichai emphasised that the high expectations set by users act as a catalyst for Google's continuous efforts to enhance its products.Responding to inquiries about Google's approach to handling such criticisms, Pichai underscored the company's commitment to incorporating a diverse array of viewpoints from its global user base, reflecting the plurality of opinions found on the internet, Times of India reported. Also read: WhatsApp to introduce status notifications feature soon: Here's how it will work ...
Google faces $1.6 bn damages demand at AI-linked trial; tech used in Google Search, Gmail, Translate
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Google faces $1.6 bn damages demand at AI-linked trial; tech used in Google Search, Gmail, Translate

[ad_1] Alphabet's Google went before a federal jury in Boston on Tuesday to argue against a computer scientist's claims that it should pay his company $1.67 billion for infringing patents that allegedly cover the processors used to power artificial intelligence technology in Google products.A lawyer for Singular Computing, founded by Massachusetts-based computer scientist Joseph Bates, told jurors that Google copied Bates' technology after repeatedly meeting with him to discuss his ideas to solve a problem central to developing AI. The lawyer, Kerry Timbers, said that after Bates shared his computer-processing innovations with Google from 2010 to 2014, the tech giant unbeknownst to him copied his patented technology rather than licensing it to develop its own AI-supporting chips. We are...
Google only improves products under pressure, US argues
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Google only improves products under pressure, US argues

[ad_1] Google — under fire in court for allegedly resting on its laurels thanks to its 90% market dominance — only made an effort to beef up the quality of its search engine in the European Union after being hit by a record antitrust fine, according to internal documents revealed in the US Justice Department's monopolization case against the tech giant.The Justice Department is arguing at a trial in Washington that Google's failure to improve its products - unless put under pressure - proves that it's illegally maintaining its monopoly. Alphabet Inc.'s Google planned to improve its European search results only after a record 2018 European antitrust fine, according to the documents, which revealed that Google executives discussed a plan dubbed “Go Big in Europe.” The plan aimed to improv...
Google Maps Face Renewed Scrutiny by DOJ’s Antitrust Lawyers
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Google Maps Face Renewed Scrutiny by DOJ’s Antitrust Lawyers

[ad_1] The US Justice Department is investigating Google's dominance in mapping, reviving a thread of its long-running antitrust investigation into the search giant, according to three people familiar with the probe. Department lawyers have been seeking information and reinterviewing potential witnesses, the people said, speaking anonymously to discuss a pending investigation. The probe is focused on how Alphabet Inc.'s Google bundles its services, and could result in a new antitrust complaint, they said. The development shows the Justice Department is continuing to scrutinize some of Google's most popular products, even after filing two major antitrust suits against the company. Google's terms of service require developers to use its maps and search products together. The limit...