Pichai 的复盘揭示了科技巨头在 AI 产品化中的两难——质量 vs 速度，做 AI 产品决策的团队值得看看 Google 当年为何选择不赌。
Google CEO Sundar Pichai 在播客中透露，2022 年 Google 已基于 LaMDA 模型开发出接近 ChatGPT 的产品，但因模型输出毒性过高、不符合 Google 搜索质量标准而放弃公开发布。Pichai 承认公司当时对产品质量有更高门槛，且事后看 OpenAI 的 ChatGPT 也并非一开始就明显是赢家。Google 曾通过 AI Test Kitchen 发布受限版 LaMDA，但最终未全面推出。这一决策让 Google 在对话 AI 浪潮中落后，但也反映了其谨慎的产品哲学。
Google was not far from launching its own ChatGPT-…
Google was not far from launching its own ChatGPT-like product back in 2022.
Sundar Pichai talks about how Google had already built a almost equvalent product around LaMDA, but its raw behavior was too toxic for Google standards, and unreliable to ship broadly.
Pichai: "I think as a company, you had this search quality bias, and so, you know, we had a higher bar, for what we thought was an acceptable product quality to go out."
The LaMDA model of Google was not simply a case of brilliant research sitting on a shelf, because Google had already started turning the model into a product and even exposed a constrained version through AI Test Kitchen.
Pichai is also saying hindsight makes the miss look cleaner than it felt at the time, because even OpenAI’s move was not instantly obvious as the winning form factor.
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From @collision podast with @sundarpichai
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