Just two years ago, Google looked like it was in trouble. In a desperate move to play catch up with the OpenAI chatbot that had upended the tech industry, the search giant debuted an unpolished version of its artificial intelligence on Google.com. The AI spat out shoddy information, including advice for people to eat rocks and put glue on their pizza.
Google’s reign over the internet seemed at risk.
But today, consensus is forming in Silicon Valley not only that Google has recovered and caught up but that it could actually win the AI race, a testament to how so much can change in so little time.
