{"id":1002365,"date":"2026-04-10T11:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002365"},"modified":"2026-04-10T12:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:51:22","slug":"did-chatgpt-come-first-or-gemini-google-ceo-sundar-pichai-wants-to-remind-you-of-the-engineer-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/10\/did-chatgpt-come-first-or-gemini-google-ceo-sundar-pichai-wants-to-remind-you-of-the-engineer-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Did ChatGPT come first or Gemini, Google CEO Sundar Pichai wants to remind you of the engineer who\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google CEO Sundar Pichai has a message for anyone who thinks the company missed the AI chatbot wave: it didn&#8217;t. It just didn&#8217;t ship first. In a conversation on Stripe co-founder John Collison&#8217;s podcast Cheeky Pint, Pichai made a pointed reference to the Blake Lemoine saga\u2014the 2022 episode where a Google engineer publicly claimed the company&#8217;s LaMDA chatbot had become sentient. But Pichai wasn&#8217;t relitigating the sentience debate. He was using it to make a product argument\u2014one that reframes Google&#8217;s role in the generative AI story entirely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you remember, there was an engineer inside who thought it was sentient. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google CEO Sundar Pichai has a message for anyone who thinks the company missed the AI chatbot wave: it didn&#8217;t. It just didn&#8217;t ship first. In a conversation on Stripe co-founder John Collison&#8217;s podcast Cheeky Pint, Pichai made a pointed reference to the Blake Lemoine saga\u2014the 2022 episode where a Google engineer publicly claimed the company&#8217;s LaMDA chatbot had become sentient. But Pichai wasn&#8217;t relitigating the sentience debate. He was using it to make a product argument\u2014one that reframes Google&#8217;s role in the generative AI story entirely. &#8220;If you remember, there was an engineer inside who thought it was sentient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}