In a recent event at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Farnam Jahanian, the university’s president, made waves when he asked Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet and Google, AI generated questions using Perplexity AI.
Jahanian ran the same prompt ‘what questions should be asked to Sundar Pichai if they were in an elevator together’ using Gemini and Perplexity to generated questions, both AI models generated 3 questions and the host valid emphasis on the last question asked by Perplexity, “Discuss his views on failure in the tech industry. How does he encourage his team to take risks, and what lessons has he learned from setbacks in his career?”
He answered the question with honesty and humility, “In tech, I think failures are an important part of your journey. When you want to work on really ambitious things, first of all, no one else is working on it, so you tend to have less competition. It attracts the best people in the world… even if you fail in accomplishing what …