Google Is Trying to Integrate Too Much AI Too Quickly: Dave Lee

At Google’s developer conference, which is being held near its Mountain View, California, headquarters this week, Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai started his keynote by emphasizing the remarkable reach of Google’s services. Thirteen have more than a billion users, he said, and five of them have more than 3 billion.

This enormous scale is what gives the Alphabet Inc. unit its obvious and massive competitive advantage in consumer AI. Its flagship apps not only attract a lot of people, they attract a lot of personal and real-world data — information that can be combined in ways competitors can’t match.

Yet as ...