Google’s amazing New Zealand team, Steve, Caro, Teyha and Simon came and visited Panmure Bridge School to give us advice and answered some of our questions. First they introduced themselves and asked us some questions like if we knew how long New Zealands Google headquarters has been existed. Their office in New Zealand has been existing for 16 years!
They then gave us some advice, the advice Steve, Caro, Teyha, and Simon gave us was truly inspiring. The piece of advice that opened my mind was was to dream big even when they are problems interfering with our dreams because possibilities are achievable. Google told us about the large language model which is a data base that reads information that you give it so that it is able to answer our questions. It’s like a large language model takes information that you feed it and is able to give you a wide selection of information you ask it. For example if somebody read every book in the library they can quickly think back to the books they read and answer the question.
Lastly I asked them if they think AI will take over Google. Steve then answered by saying that the AI they use is controlled like a handbrake on a car which means it will do amazing things to help Google but it will not take over. Did you know that the name “Google” is a missplelling of Googal? Googal is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros which was picked to show search engine was intended to provide large number of information.
I enjoyed this experience because I learnt important lessons and tips to help me stay on the right path for my future.