{"id":994091,"date":"2026-02-20T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994091"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:00:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:30:57","slug":"ai-is-the-biggest-platform-shift-of-our-lifetimes-says-pichai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/20\/ai-is-the-biggest-platform-shift-of-our-lifetimes-says-pichai\/","title":{"rendered":"AI is the biggest platform shift of our lifetimes, says Pichai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Recounting a recent ride in a fully autonomous Waymo vehicle in San Francisco with his 83-year-old father, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the real test of progress is when such systems can operate on India&#8217;s roads.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Back in my days in India, I couldn&#8217;t have imagined that one day I would spend time with teams building data centres in space&#8230; Seeing a Waymo ride past my dad&#8217;s house, I saw whole new progress. Of course, he said he&#8217;d be more impressed if it worked on India&#8217;s busy roads. Still working on that one, Dad,&#8221; he shared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Recounting a recent ride in a fully autonomous Waymo vehicle in San Francisco with his 83-year-old father, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the real test of progress is when such systems can operate on India&#8217;s roads. &#8220;Back in my days in India, I couldn&#8217;t have imagined that one day I would spend time with teams building data centres in space&#8230; Seeing a Waymo ride past my dad&#8217;s house, I saw whole new progress. Of course, he said he&#8217;d be more impressed if it worked on India&#8217;s busy roads. Still working on that one, Dad,&#8221; he shared.<\/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-994091","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\/994091","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=994091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}