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Google ‘humbly confident’ it will play a part in AI revolution despite claims it trails rivals

David Sneddon, vice president at Google Ireland, said the big tech firm was ‘humble but confident’ in its long-term prospects in the booming field

Google AI efforts had been branded Google Assistant, Bard and in a more primitive form as Google Now. Picture: Getty

Google is playing the long game on artificial intelligence (AI) and is “humbly confident” it will have a role in the technology’s revolution to come, one of its senior executives in Ireland has said.

The company has faced criticism from within the tech arena that its AI tools lag behind key rivals, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

David Sneddon, Google Ireland vice president, told the Business Post that it was a “very long race” and Google ...