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A LEAKED MEMO FROM GOOGLE CEO SUNDAR PICHAI COMES AMIDST EMPLOYEE DISCONTENT

A leaked memo from Google's CEO Sundar Pichai revealed the company's seven goals for the year. This year, Google aims to deliver the world's most advanced, safe, and responsible AI; improve knowledge, learning, creativity, and productivity; build the most helpful personal computing platforms and devices; enable organizations and developers to innovate on Google Cloud; provide the world's most trusted products and platforms; build an extraordinary Google; improve company velocity, efficiency, and productivity; and deliver durable cost savings. The leak comes amid a wave of layoffs at the company, with more job cuts on the horizon.

SELF-DRIVING AS A CASE STUDY FOR AGI

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is commonly defined as an autonomous system that surpasses human capabilities in the majority of economically valuable work. Recent developments in autonomous driving present a good early case study of the societal dynamics of increasing automation. Driving is a difficult problem to automate and its automation will impact a large human workforce. The autonomous driving industry has created many new jobs that didn't exist before. Instead of destroying jobs, automation caused the industry to adapt and change.

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