Interview You may have heard that Google is considering putting its latest AI search innovations behind a paywall, something that doesn't sit well with Rosanne Kincaid-Smith, COO of German HPC company Northern Data Group.
Google wrong to put AI search behind paywall, says HPC leader
Kincaid-Smith said in an interview that Google is in a different position than companies like OpenAI and others that are focused on building chatbots that are more of a novelty. Google, with its enormous reach and influence, and dominance of the search market, should make AI search innovations public.
"My own view on the democratization of access and also the ethos that drives our business is about allowing access to the transformative technology that AI will bring, and that includes in search results," Kincaid-Smith told me in an interview.
"Putting up a paywall to actually provide access to that premium information, which is ultimately what we want AI to deliver to actually drive societal progress, doesn't sit well" with Kincaid-Smith, or NDG's ethos, she said .
