Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet | Lex Fridman Podcast #471

Sundar Pichai is CEO of Google and Alphabet.
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*OUTLINE:*
0:00 - Episode highlight
2:08 - Introduction
2:18 - Growing up in India
8:27 - Advice for young people
10:09 - Styles of leadership
14:29 - Impact of AI in human history
26:39 - Veo 3 and future of video
34:24 - Scaling laws
38:09 - AGI and ASI
44:33 - P(doom)
51:24 - Toughest leadership decisions
1:02:32 - AI mode vs Google Search
1:15:22 - Google Chrome
1:30:52 - Programming
1:37:37 - Android
1:42:49 - Questions for AGI
1:48:05 - Future of humanity
1:51:26 - Demo: Google Beam
1:59:09 - Demo: Google XR Glasses
2:01:54 - Biggest invention in human history

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