This Lex Fridman Podcast features an interview with Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet. The conversation covers Pichai's upbringing in India, his leadership style, the impact of AI, Google's products (Search, Chrome, Android), and the future of AI and humanity. The discussion also includes demos of Google Beam and Google XR glasses.
The transcript indicates that Sundar Pichai believes the opportunity space for autonomous vehicles is vast. He highlights Waymo's achievement of 10 million paid robotaxi rides and emphasizes Waymo's commitment to both ambition and safety. He anticipates continued scaling of Waymo's services and sees a potential for the technology to completely transition the way humans move around the world, with significant social and cultural impacts in addition to economic ones. He also suggests that advancements in self-driving technology could lead to further developments in other areas of robotics.
