Post by Fast Company

Google CEO Sundar Pichai may have been optimistic about Google’s ability to take on ChatGPT, but he treated its arrival as an emergency. Just three weeks after the Open AI chatbot appeared, Google had declared a “Code Red,” instructing staffers to set aside other projects to fast-track new AI products and features. That Google is suddenly so widely regarded as one of AI’s biggest winners is striking given the skepticism that once clouded its efforts. Every tech CEO claims to think 10 years into the future. Most, however, move on to new grand pronouncements within a couple of years, well before making the old ones a reality. But is Pichai—who is finally on the cusp of creating the universal assistant he wrote about in a 2016 shareholder letter—in fact taking a decade-long view of where the technology is going? Learn more about how Google anticipated our AI-assisted future: https://bit.ly/4dApBMh