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Except with all the various products Google has, search is likely the only one that could stand on its own financially.
by jjeaff 7y ago
Except with all the various products Google has, search is likely the only one that could stand on its own financially.
- SomeOldThrow 7y agoThat’s google’s problem for picking a delicate business model.
- colejohnson66 7y agoSo you’re fine with YouTube failing because Google got broken up?
- loudtieblahblah 7y agoAbsolutely.
- v7p1Qbt1im 7y agoThat for one. And products like Assistant would become pretty much useless. Brin and Page always stated that search is not the end goal. A real AI is. If these actions happen, it‘s pretty much guaranteed that China will get there first. We don‘t have the global regulations in place yet to discourage that arms race.
- SomeOldThrow 7y agoThere’s no indication they are capable of this.
- drippingthunder 7y agohttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveillance-artificial-intelligence-racial-profiling.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveill...
- v7p1Qbt1im 7y agoNot yet. But they are doing everything possible to lay the groundwork. As much accurate data as possible, hire all the best AI talent, pioneering work on quantum computing and constantly improving tooling. 2030 to 2040 will be the earliest AGI could happen realistically.
- close04 7y agoFeels like Youtube and Maps have a pretty solid foothold given how very few products can compete at that level. I’m not sure how much they rely on data from other Google divisions but even without it I don’t see why they would fare worse than any other map service.