PLI Ever Current Podcast Episode 11: Bill Tanenbaum and Suneil Thomas, Managing Counsel at Google Cloud AI, discuss the evolution of AI from Machine Learning (a type of Non-Generative AI) and Siri and Alexa to today’s Generative AI, and offer predictions about the next evolutionary step in Generative AI. Suneil discusses transformer models and other technology behind Generative AI offerings like LLMs. He addresses the perspective of companies as customers of cloud AI technology, what “adaptive layers” and “APIs” are, how customers will use them to customize Generative AI in the next evolutionary step, and the role of regulations in that customer use. Bill and Suneil also discuss some current business uses of Generative AI.
Recorded on 11/16/23
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Suneil Thomas
Suneil Thomas manages the Google Cloud AI (Google Cloud Platform’s suite of enterprise level AI products and services) Product Counsel Team, which oversees a broad array of AI product development, strategic partnership, and enterprise level commercial legal matters (all with a frequent nexus to sophisticated privacy, policy, intellectual property, and regulatory compliance issues — especially for generative AI), for the rapidly growing Cloud AI product area at Google. He was a key stakeholder in the drafting and implementation of Google’s “AI Principles” (Google’s framework for the ethical development and sale of AI) and ongoing AI Principles and public policy-related matters.
Prior to almost a decade at Google, Suneil was the General Counsel and VP of Government Affairs of a marine robotics and data services company (www.liquidr.com)— sold to The Boeing Company) and a world-renowned “hypercar” /“supercar” company (www.pagani.com). He was also a legal consultant to top-tier Bay Area tech companies such as Square (now Block), Oracle, and eBay (http://www.axiom.com). Suneil began his legal career as an associate at Pillsbury Winthrop (www.pillsburylaw.com).
