Employees should work harder to ensure the company can be a leader in AI, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said. He believes 60 hours a week is the optimal level. Those who do the “bare minimum” are unproductive and demoralize others, he suggested in a memo.
AGI, a form of AI whose intelligence is comparable to or higher than that of humans, is within reach, reports The New York Times. It adds that combining it with enormous computing power and other advantages of computers gives it almost divine qualities. This belief of Sergey Brin in the fact that Google's IT teams can compete for the technological laurel is visible in an internal memo that was leaked to the media.
In it, the co-founder of the company encourages IT specialists and their support teams to work hard and use AI wherever possible – including when coding, because in this way they contribute to the improvement of the technology they use.
According to Google's policy, employees have the option of hybrid work – they are in the office three or more times a week. Brin would encourage a change and oblige employees to be present on all weekdays. At work, they should work 60 hours a week, which in practice would mean devoting 12 hours a day from Monday to Friday to artificial intelligence. In his opinion, this is the “optimal level of productivity” – quotes “The New York Times”.
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