Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedJohn Collison: belief
7 Apr 2026 Cheeky Pint The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai
“I think the root of your question is, if you think of Search as a prompt that is not longer than one line, returning a bunch of different ranked results, as opposed to just telling you the right answer or something.”
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- John Collison
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- 7 Apr 2026
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- Cheeky Pint
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…It keeps evolving. Search would be an agent manager in which you're doing a lot of things. I think in some ways, I use Antigravity today, and you have a bunch of agents doing stuff. I can see search doing versions of those things, and you're getting a bunch of stuff done. I think the root of your question is, if you think of Search as a prompt that is not longer than one line, returning a bunch of different ranked results, as opposed to just telling you the right answer or something. I think your question is, does that product modality exist? But today in AI mode in Search, people do deep research queries. That doesn't quite fit the definition of what you're saying. But people adapted to that. I think people will do long-running tasks.…
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