Maybe he's just Pichai is just really smart and trying to get the breaks slammed on the AI bubble before it pops.
Listen if this works the way you think it does, half the country is going to be out of work. CEO: but our company will make a lot of money right, someone else is going to do it eventually anyway.
OK, look if this works the way it is supposed to, we won't need you anymore!
Oh shit, hit the breaks, no more AI, it's all a bubble anyway.
Honestly I don't get how AI isn't rolling backwards already. Image sites are burried in AI slop. Social media posts are burried in AI slop, and now e-mails, that were probably written by AIs. How is AI even remotely improving right now, when obviously 90% of any new training data it's getting, was generated by the last generation of AI.