Google’s AI Bonanza and Driverless Car Talk with Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt
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At its biggest event of the year, Google announced an avalanche of AI product releases: AI in search, AI writing emails, and AI generating slides. Is Google moving forward in the AI arms race?
And after years of hype, self-driving cars are finally hitting the streets of American cities. Kevin and Casey take a spin around San Francisco in Banana Slug, an autonomous vehicle from the self-driving car company Cruise. After their ride, they sit down with Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt to discuss the role he thinks self-driving cars will play in the future of transportation.
Credits
“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Rose and Casey Newton and produced by Davis Land and Rachel Cohn. The show is edited by Jen Poyant. Engineering by Alyssa Moxley and original music by Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Marion Lozano, Sophia Lanman and Rowan Niemisto. Fact Check by Caitlin Love.
Special thanks to Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam, Nell Gallogly, Kate LoPresti and Jeffrey Miranda.