Google’s A.I. Bonanza + Driverless Car Talk With Cruise C.E.O. Kyle Vogt

<p>At its biggest event of the year, Google announced an avalanche of A.I. product releases: A.I. in search, A.I. that writes emails and A.I. that generates slides. Is Google pulling ahead in the A.I. arms race?</p><p>And, after years of hype, self-driving cars are finally hitting the streets of American cities. Kevin and Casey take a ride through San Francisco in Banana Slug — an autonomous vehicle from the self-driving car company Cruise. After their ride, they sit down with Cruise’s chief executive, Kyle Vogt, to discuss the role he thinks self-driving cars will play in the future of transportation.</p><p><strong>On today’s episode:</strong></p><ul><li>Kyle Vogt is the chief executive of Cruise, a self-driving car company.</li></ul><p><strong>Additional reading:</strong></p><ul><li>At their annual conference, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/10/technology/google-ai-products.html" target="_blank">Google announced dozens of A.I. products</a> and features</li><li>In a <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/google-researcher-memo-company-has-no-moat-in-ai" target="_blank">leaked memo</a>, a Google researcher argued that the company did not have a strong A.I. moat because of open-source A.I. companies.</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/technology/self-driving-taxi-san-francisco.html" target="_blank">Self-driving cars are expanding</a> their footprint.</li></ul><p> </p>