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Google CEO Sundar Pichai shared his favourite Indian foods and his thoughts on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in India. In a podcast with YouTuber Varun Mayya, Google CEO also spoke about AI’s impact on Indian jobs and gave advice to the country’s engineers.
Sundar Pichai spoke about his favourite dishes from different Indian cities like dosa in Bangalore, chole bhature in Delhi, and pav bhaji in Mumbai. “When it’s Bangalore, I will probably get a dosa. It’s my favourite food. If it’s Delhi, chole bhature. And if it’s Mumbai, I’ll do a pav bhaji,” he said.
Sundar Pichai also spoke about how AI will impact India and the job market in future. He said “I think India is well-positioned. For India, this is the moment. India is an extraordinary base of developers, engineering talent. For them to understand this trend and build their applications that make sense either for India or for the world from India. Both are exciting possibilities,” reported Business Today.
He also gave a reference to a scene from the Bollywood movie ‘3 Idiots’. “Real success comes from understanding things in a deeper way. Almost tempted to go back to the movie 3 Idiots. There’s a scene in there where they ask Aamir Khan the definition of a motor. There are two versions of where you describe what a motor is and there’s a version where you actually understand what a motor is. So I view it the same way,” Pichai said.
Pichai also mentioned that there is an entire industry in India which prepares youngsters to prepare for FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google) interviews. “I don’t know if you know this, but there is an entire industry in India built to help young Indians crack the FAANG interviews,” he noted.
Google parent Alphabet last week showed how it is building on artificial intelligence across its businesses, including a beefed-up Gemini chatbot and improvements to its prized search engine as it races to compete with AI rivals.
Among Google’s latest salvos was an addition to its family of Gemini 1.5 AI models known as Flash that is faster and cheaper to run; a prototype called Project Astra, which can talk to users about anything captured on their smartphone camera in real time; and search results categorized under AI-generated headlines.
“This is a moment of growth and opportunity,” Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai told reporters, when asked if the AI updates could risk Google’s profitable business.
(With Inputs From Reuters)
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