Former CEO and President of Google, eric schmidthas said that the technology giants have lost the race for dominance artificial intelligence (AI) first OpenAI And Microsoft Deciding that “work-life balance and getting home early to telework were more important than earnings.”
“Reasons why Startup They work because people work like hell. “And I’m sorry to be so blunt, but the fact is that if you all quit university and started a company, you’re not going to allow people to work from home and only come in one day a week.”
Schmidt made this scathing remark during a recent conversation Stanford University which was published on Wednesday YouTube and which has been withdrawn following controversy (You can read its transcript here(). “I expressed myself poorly regarding Google and its work schedule,” the influencer and millionaire investor corrected in a statement sent to several US media. “I apologize for my mistake.”

steal from others
This isn’t the only controversial message he left. At another point in the conversation, Schmidt suggests Stanford students use Hey Stealing ideas from other technology companies. “Yes TikTok forbidden, I propose that each of you do this: tell your LLM (AI language model) The following: “Make me a copy of TikTok, steal all the users, steal all the music, put my preferences in it, build this program in the next 30 seconds, launch it, and in an hour, if it doesn’t go viral, do something different along these same lines.”
He later defended his point once again. “So, I gave the example of competitor TikTok — and by the way, I wasn’t arguing that you should illegally steal everyone’s music — what would they do if they were a business owner? silicon ValleyHopefully you all think that if I succeed, you’ll hire a bunch of lawyers to clean up the mess, right? But if no one uses your product, it doesn’t matter that you stole all the content,” he added.
After issuing that controversial recommendation, Schmidt asked students not to quote him. And when they pointed out that the conversation was being videotaped, he responded: “Yes, that’s right. But you get my point. In other words, Silicon Valley will do these tests and clean up the mess. And that’s usually how these things happen.”
