What Sergey Brin is working at Google
When asked how much time he is spending at Google and what he is working on, Brin said that he is back at the company and is going to the office “pretty much every day”, noting that he “missed today”.
He cited the recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence as his primary motivator, stating that he hasn’t seen anything as exciting in the tech world before and doesn’t want to miss out on the current developments.
“As a computer scientist, I’ve never seen anything as exciting as all of the AI progress that’s happened the last few years but it’s kind of mindblowing,” he said.
“Every month there’s like a new amazing capability and I’m doubly wowed as everybody else is that computers can do this. For me, I really got back into technical work because I just don’t want to miss out on this as a computer scientist,” he said.
Google Search is a part of AI
Brin also said that Search – one of the main businesses of the company – is an application of AI technology. He said that he uses AI to write code.
“I just think that the AI touches so many different elements of day-to-day life and, sure, Search is one of them but it kind of covers everything,” he said.
For example, programming itself. The way that I think about it is very different now; writing code from scratch feels really hard compared to just asking the AI to do it,” he added.
Last year a report from The Washington Journal claimed that Brin has been more actively involved at Google’s headquarters and attending more AI meetings at Google, marking a shift from his previously less engaged approach after stepping back from his executive position at Alphabet in 2019.