Google cofounder Sergey Brin made a shock look onstage on the firm’s flagship I/O developer convention Tuesday, the place he defined why he is returned to the tech big and what he is realized from the failure of Google Glass over a decade in the past.
It is the most recent signal that Google goes hardcore on AI. Brin has been again at Google to assist develop its AI merchandise since 2023 because the search big races in opposition to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and he shared about what he is been as much as since returning to the trenches.
Brin wasn’t anticipated to talk on the discuss, which Google billed solely as an interview of its DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis. He joked, “I torture folks like Demis, who’s fairly wonderful. He tolerated me crashing this fireplace.”
Within the chat with Hassabis, Brin mentioned he comes into Google “just about day-after-day now” to chip in on coaching the most recent fashions from Gemini. It is one thing that naturally pursuits him, the famously technical co-founder mentioned.
“I are usually fairly deep within the technical particulars,” Brin mentioned. “And that is a luxurious I actually take pleasure in, luckily, as a result of guys like Demis are minding the store. And that is simply the place my scientific curiosity is.”
Since returning to Google, Brin additionally attended final 12 months’s I/O, the place he fielded reporters’ questions on AI.
Studying from Google Glass
On the 2012 Google I/O convention, Brin famously demoed a video through which he wore Google Glass whereas skydiving to indicate off the tech big’s earlier foray into wearables. This 12 months, he additionally addressed Google Glass, which it stopped promoting a decade in the past.
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On the Tuesday fireplace, Brin mentioned Google Glass’s failure stemmed partly from his lack of information about manufacturing and provide chains.
“I simply did not know something about shopper digital provide chains, actually, and the way arduous it will be to construct that and have it at an inexpensive worth level,” he mentioned.
Brin is way extra bullish on Google’s newest wearables enterprise: “XR,” or Prolonged Actuality, glasses. On the fireplace chat, he mentioned he thinks AI is way extra succesful now for such a product.
Enterprise Insider was capable of snap an image of the usually reclusive billionaire attempting the XR glasses on earlier than the fireplace chat, too:
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